Showing 560 results

Archival description
The Rosse Papers
Print preview View:

94 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

In-letters from correspondents whose names begin with ‘P’, ‘Q’, ‘R’ and ‘T’

‘P’, ‘Q’, ‘R’ and ‘T’ - including letters from the Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons, in Basingstoke, relating to the affairs of Birr Castle Demesne, during the period in which he acted on behalf of the sixth earl in his minority (1918-1924). Also includes letters from members of the Pigott family [see V/24], Mrs Manning Robertson, the 5th and 6th Earls of Rosse, J.H. Tyler (the Womersley agent [see H/117]), etc, etc.

Garvey, Toler Roberts, Jr

In-letters from correspondents whose names begin with ‘W’ and ’Y’

‘W’ and ‘’Y’ - principally Edward Walsh (town clerk of Birr, who writes about all manner of local government matters), Harold J. Wiley & Co., insurance brokers of Dublin (who write about Birr Castle insurance), Mrs F. White Spunner of Milltown Park, Shinrone, King’s County (whose estate Garvey managed [although, apart from these letters, no other record of this agency survives in the archive at Birr Castle]).

Includes minor letters from Captain P. Wall, Castle Barracks, Birr (1922-1923).

Journals and drawings related to astronomy

Journals containing astronomical observations, drawings of nebula, drafts for articles and speeches on astronomy, and other papers (excluding correspondence) of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Rosse on the subject of astronomy, [pre-1828-1908].

Land Court case papers and Irish Land Commission sale papers, in connection with the Rosse estate in King’s County and Co. Tipperary.

Land Court case papers and Irish Land Commission sale papers, including lists of tenants, of court cases to be heard,
some correspondence [but see Q/388], a small quarto volume [of c.1900] recording valuations of holdings, either for land purchase purposes or in connection with appeals against judicial rents, etc, etc, all in connection with the Rosse estate in King’s County and Co. Tipperary.

Results 141 to 150 of 560