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Thicker, folio volume recording workmen’s time and accounts (forestry, sawmills, garden, farm, etc).

Six garden books kept by the head gardener, Michael Hogan.

Six garden books kept by the head gardener, Michael Hogan.

Printed Blue Book on market rights and tolls in Ireland (p. 383 et seq. consisting of evidence from Toler R. Garvey Senior about Birr.).

(One of) three chronologically overlapping game books.

(One of) three chronologically overlapping game books.

Carbon out-letter book of the sawmill manager, W.Y. Chisholm [see Q/383].

52 quarto volumes of damp press, copy out-letters from Toler R. Garvey Senior [and Junior] and Capt. Alec Drought, successive agents for the Rosse estate, writing from the Birr Estate Office.

Includes letters from to Toler R. Garvey Jr relating to incidents at Birr Castle during the Irish Civil War, particularly the protestation of the execution of three youths, William Conroy, Patrick Cunningham and Colum Kelly from Tullamore in January 1923 at Birr Castle.

Includes a letter from Garvey to Chief of Staff, Portobello Barracks, on 3 January 1924 regarding executions at Birr Castle in January 1923:

‘I am directed by Lord Rosses’s trustees to inquire whether the time has not now arrived when the remains of the men executed last year and buried in the private grounds of Birr Castle could be safely removed and re-interred elsewhere, it is obvious that for many reasons they cannot be left indefinitely in the private grounds and though of course Lord Rosse’s trustees understand that the military authorities would in any case have the removed carried out before the premises are evacuated there seems to be no good reason why it should not now be done.’

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