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Research on Kylebeg or Banagher Castle Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Reynagh, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 920.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over one page and ten photographs.
Incl. web printouts from the Database of Irish Excavation Reports (https://excavations.ie/report/1998/Offaly/0003723/ and https://excavations.ie/report/1998/Offaly/0003722/).

Research on Glaster Site of Glassworks, Co. Offaly (Parish of Lusmagh, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: not applicable.
Contains a field sheet and one photograph.

One envelop with two photographs of a 17th century (?) house in Cloghan, Ettagh Civil Parish, Barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly.

Documents relating to aspects of Moore's life in Banagher. Moore was involved in many committees in the town. These fall into two categories in this collection, namely improvements to the local economy and infrastructure and those that responded to outside events such as the First and Second World Wars. The improvement committees were Banagher Improvement Association/Committee (c.1899-1928), Banagher Fairs and Improvement Committee (1907-1928), Banagher Public Lighting Committee (1907-1912) and Banagher and Lusmagh Farmers Association (1929-1930). The other committees responded to WWI and WWII were The Garrycastle Relief Committee (1914-1915), the War and Pensions Committee (1917-1919) and the Parish Council (1941-c.1945).

Some other organisations mentioned are the Banagher Bicycle Association, the Gaelic League and the Banagher Sacred Heart Sodality which all proved extremely popular.

Three fragmentary draft or sketch maps on tracing paper of south and west Offaly dating to c.1808, and a fourth of the King's Channel area , County Waterford, dating possibly to Larkin's survey of County Waterford in 1818.