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Minute book containing reports of meetings of North Offaly GAA Sub-committee delegates. Records fixtures, transfers and objections brought to the meeting by the various represented clubs in the northern division. Also includes loose leaf team list, including substitutes, for Edenderry (The Harps), c. 1919, with Frank Gill as Captain.
Scrapbook containing typescript essay on history of Ballinamere GAA Club, newspaper cuttings with match reports, original photographs of Ballinamere teams, individual players, and hurling committees,and reports from AGMs.
Original lease (1604) and 2 non-contemporary copy leases of ‘The Myrtle House’, Youghal, [former home of Sir Walter Ralegh], held by the Parsonses of Parsonstown under a lease from the [1st and Great] Earl of Cork.
Letters sent to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench. The letters in the file concern people or topics beginning with the letters A, B or D.
Examples include a copy of an agreement appointing Benjamin as land agent for the Marquess of Bath dated 6 April 1873; a letter from A. Boldero dated 19 October 1872 in which they express their inconsistent feelings about Benjamin working in Carrickmacross and a list of furniture and effects at Essex Castle, Carrickmacross by directions of the executor of the Stewart Trench esq., dated 30 November 1872.
Handwritten book which documents local remedies for illnesses picked up by animals. Examples include Lawrence Kelly's cure for the scab, Mr Dillion’s salve for lambs and recipe for the black leg.
Photograph album that possibly belonged to Dora Trench. The photograph album mainly consists of photographs of the Turnor family and their friends. Examples of people included in the album are Hatton Turnor, Herbert Turnor, Graham Turnor, The Ladies Mabel and Constance Finch Hatton, Miss Gummen, Mr and Mrs Ponton, Miss Florence Turnor, Fröken Piper and Effie Turnor.