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File of letters relating to Loughton House.

Examples of letters include a letter from the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench dated 20 November 1900
'Dear Sir,
Your letter of 16th inst. received, and I send you herewith for your information some copies of audited balnce sheets of Co-operative Dairy Societies which I hope will be useful to you. I hope the project of starting a co-operative Creamery for MoneyGall may prove successful. We shall be glad at any time to give you any information or advice in our power.'

Also included is a letter from James Guilfoyle, John Murphy, and John Healy dated 25 November 1895
'Sir,
We the undersigned having had the misfortune of being found trespassing on part of your property known as the lands of Clinoe with dogs in our possession on the 20th inst by Mr George [Frend] of Silver Hills, and for which we tender an apology to your honor and by to assure you that it being our first time in trespassing on your property that during our natural life we shall never attempt to repeat such an act. By hoping that this apology will satisfy your honour and again we say that we [resoundingly] report what we have done. With profound respect we beg to remain yours honour's most obedient servants.'

The Loughton papers are comprised of the records of the successive owners of Loughton, Moneygall, Co. Offaly and of other properties in the surrounding area including one in Co. Tipperary. The families documented within the fonds are the Bloomfields, the Trenches and the Atkinsons. The fonds mainly consists of documents originating from Benjamin Bloomfield Trench, his wife Dora Trench (neé Turnor) and their daughter Theodora Trench. The material dates from 1798 until the 1970s.

File of documents relating to an 1872 attempt to sell Loughton house.
Included in this file are an advertisement for sale of the house and a map of the house division of Loughton dated 6 March 1872.

File of documents relating to the Loughton water supply.

Examples of documents contained within this file include the results of an analysis of the Loughton water supply carried out by the Royal Dublin Society, Leinster house; a drawing of Loughton Reservoir (Majors hill) 1897 and instructions as to water supply Hot and Cold Loughton.

Photographs and negatives taken of Loughton house and the surrounding estate. The majority of the photographs are of the exterior of the house and of horses kept in Loughton. The file includes one negative of the interior, photographs of Theodora Trench, Sheelah Lefroy and Langlois Massy Lefroy playing and walking dogs, work being carried out on the estate and a negative of Benjamin Bloomfield Trench on a horse. The file includes a Christmas card from Buffy [?] sent to Theodora containing a photograph taken in Loughton of Theodora and an unidentified young boy.
Also included in the file are six glass plate negatives which show the interior of Borrisnafarney Church, a hunt gathered outside Loughton House and two unknown ladies walking their dogs.

Landed estates court rental and particulars of head and profit rents payable out of houses and premises situate in Lower Dominick Street, Great Britain Street, Dorset Street and Upper Mecklenburgh Stteet, in the city of Dublin, and out of the lands of Rathbeg, Kilonegan, Kilkeeran, part of Rathmore and Foreloghs, situate in the barony of Clonlisk, King's County.

The records in this file result from Theodora Trench's effort to redecorate the interior of Loughton house.

The file includes two copies of a October 1935 letter and an amendment from James Gibson & son, 50 Mary street, Dublin. Within this letter they estimate the cost of the painting required.
The file also includes a letter from Theodora Trench to Leake, painters & decorators, Birr, Offaly dated 27 September 1937asking them to examine work inside the home and estimate.

Photographs taken during Sheelah and Langlois Massy Lefroy's honeymoon trip to Loughton, King's County and Carriglas Manor, Longford. The photographs show the couple enjoying walks and a 'céad míle fáilte' sign welcoming the couple.

Sketch for a Gothick Loughton submitted to John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Lord Bloomfield.