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A schedule, deeds, and documents relating to the management of Geashill Estate which were transfered from Moore Kelly Lloyd Solicitors to Goodbody Tisdall Solicitors.

Volume containing copies certified by the Clerk of the Peace Office, of all registrations entered in the Peace Office, King's County, of trees planted under the Planting Act, in the several townlands of the Manor of Geashill up to 31 December 1855. Compiled by R. Smyth, District Commissioner of the Peace. Includes notes concerning the transfer of ownership of trees to Earl Digby following evictions for non-payment of rent.

Deed of memorial between William Baker of Eaton Square, county of Middlesex and Lord Digby. Signed by Edward Goldwin Turner, Clerk, and William Baker.

Report entitled 'Drainage Geashill Estate' prepared by land agents, William Steuert Trench and Thomas Weldon Trench. Contains watercolour maps and costings of drainage works.

Copy of Ordnance Survey sheet 26 map of the Geashill Estate of Baron Digby issued by mapping department of the Irish Land Commission. Areas and plots within Ballydownan are illustrated in pink marker.
Scale six inches to one statute mile.

Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating a grant claim for Geashill Castle after its destruction. Includes a copy of the brief for counsel for the claim of £19,614.17 for Geashill Castles and its contents (1923); evaluation of three elk horns destroyed in the fire;
letter from Lord Digby to Goodbody Solicitors, Dorset "I must congratulate you once more for the very successful result of your hard work in relation to this claim, and I know what a difficult case it must have been for you to get a satisfactory settlement. I think you ought to know how very please I am over the way the case was conducted" (22 February 1926); letter from the Ministery of Finance details that "under the Malicious Injury Act you are entitle in this case to £1635 in clash, and £1100 in Bonds - total £2735" (19 February 1926).

Lease of part of the lands of Hawkswood from Henry Lord Digby to Daniel Delaney for three lives from 1784, at the yearly rate of £86-10-0.
Including 'A map of the lands of Hawkswood in the King's County the Estate of The Right Honourable Henry Lord Digby now in the tenure of Mr Delaney. Surveyed in 1785 by Pat Roe', hand coloured, scale of 40 Perches to an Inch.

Volumes recording tenant, townland and rent relating to the Geashill Estate.

Bundle of tenancy releases papers dated and signed by tenant and Thomas Weldon Trench, co-agent and local magistrate of the Digby Estate. The release papers acknowledges a payment made to the tenant from the executors of the late Earl of Digby accepted in full discharge for any right, claim or demand to any estate, term of interest in the lands.