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Draft Ms proposal of Banagher Fairs & Improvements Committee calling for 'efforts to preserve and protect the Banagher Great Fair and calling also for an end to 'The pernicious practice of forestalling or pre-buying'.
Box 1: Balance sheet for D. E. Williams Tullamore (1893) Draft account book for D. E. Williams accounts (1897) D. E. Williams accounts (1899) Annual final accounts in notebook form until 1930 and thereafter in new audited format by Kevan & Sons, Chartered Accountants, Dublin (1905 - 1920, 1930 -1966)
Box 2: Annual final accounts in notebook by Kevan & Sons, Chartered Accountants, Dublin (1920 - 1929) Accounts Tullamore & elsewhere (1908-1916) Tullamore & Branches combined trading accounts (1926-1959)
Annual calendars with commissioned portraits of Karl Uhlemann, Henry Bradshaw, Vincent O'Brien, Dr. Robert Briscoe, Michael O'Hehir and J. M. Rogers (1933 - 1937, 1951 - 1961) including duplicates
Volume containing notes in English for the annual letter recording the history of St. Stanislaus’ College, Tullamore and copies of the final Latin versions Includes reference to visitations, the events on particular feastdays, the arrival of novices, the annual status and deaths. Writers of the histories include Frs. Richard O’Reilly SJ, Patrick O’Kelly SJ, Thomas Byrne SJ and Michael A. O’ Grady SJ.
First full report submitted by the Trenchs to Lord Digby. Contains a detailed examination of the 'compensation fund' granted by George Wingfield Digby to the leaseholders to indemnify them for the loss of their several leases, which had been illegally granted to them by the previous earl and which the current earl would like to break. Also includes a memorandum describing in great detail, the meeting between Trench and the leaseholders, to discuss the terms of the compensation. Also includes report on the 'mesne' or first-year rates with a full list of the tenants. Also includes 'sundry observations' on the management of the estate 'during the difficult & trying period of our first year of office.' Describes how the 'tenants-at-will' were invited to settle arrears and there was 'a vast amount of dissatisfaction amongst the tenantry.' W. S. Trench describes the discovery of an assassination plot to murder one or other of the Trenchs is underfoot, leading T. W. Trench to travel over the estate accompanied by a policeman and the estate bailiff, with a loaded gun in his hand. Also discusses the commencement of the construction of new labourers cottages; the building of a new estate office adjoining the church; the drainage of the bogs; and a report on emigration from the estate.