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Annual report, account and rental for year ending June 1916, showing a reduction in overall amount remitted to Lord Digby due to a large increase in income tax, but notes that rents and interest in lieu of rents have been satisfactorily paid. Refers to the 'late rebellion in Dublin' and that the country is in a state of disquiet.

Annual report, accounts and rental showing a decrease in rent owing to judicial and voluntary reductions. Notes that outstanding arrears have increased and abandoned arrears represent mainly rentals of lands set for grazing or temporary purposes. Little to no expenditure reported. Notes that condition of the estate is satisfactory but warns that the coming year will be 'an anxious one and the management of Irish property not likely to be rendered more easy by the relaxation of the law and the encouragement to agitation which is certain to result from recent change in government.'

Annual report, accounts and rental for year ending June 1893, showing a slight decrease in gross rent received and an increase in abandoned arrears due to the eviction of three tenants: Michael Malone, Danganbeg; John Dunne, Ballinagar; and Michael Coughlan, Cappancur. Digby notes that he was able to re-let Malone and Dunne's holdings but that it was 'impossible' to re-let Coughlan's farm. Also notes that Lord Digby granted a 15% rent reduction to non-judicial tenants as a result of continued depressed prices and great injury caused by an excessively wet harvest.

Annual report, accounts and rental for year ending June 1894, showing an unchanged rental situation form the previous year. Digby refers to the defeat of the Home Rule Bill and his satisfaction that 'the extraordinary proposal of the Government to reinstate evicted tenants has failed to excite enthusiasm'.

Annual report, accounts and rental for year end June 1895, showing rents and arrears unchanged since the previous year. Despite the continued low prices for agricultural produce, and a moderate harvest, rents were satisfactorily paid, and Digby notes 'the agitation and discontent prophesied as the inevitable result of the defeat of the Home Rule and Evicted Tenants Bills have been absolutely non existent, and in this district boycotting and intimidation of any kind are almost things of the past.'

Receipts and documents relating to the lands at Bunsallagh, including:

1) receipt issued for rent paid to the Earl of Charleville (1854-1855) and signed by agent, Francis Berry.
2) schedule of lands relating to the proposed railway line through land occupied by Ann Kelly, 1886
3) return for the townlands of Bunsallagh to the Commissioner for Valuation, 1910