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Letter from James Rogers (of Rogers & Co. Solicitors), Tullamore, Offaly to Fr Donal O’ Sullivan SJ, Rector of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Offaly concerning the ‘Tullabeg lands’ and deed of fransfer. There was no fee charged as the counsel, Mr Walter Callan B.L., had a brother who was a member of the English Jesuit Province and spent a year in Tullabeg, 'I would wish anything I can do to be a very trifling tribute to his memory'.
First page extant only: a list of 91 jurors (A-H) of the barony of Ballycowan, with various exemptions noted due to age, profession, ill-health, disability or property ownership.
Research on Ballydrohid Tower House, Co. Offaly also known as 'Srah Castle' (Parish of Kilbride, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 827. Contains field sheet with sketches of the site, a written report over ten pages and 65 photographs.
Research on Castletown Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Rahan, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 766. Contains field sheet with a sketch of the site plan, a written report over two pages and five photographs.
Draft letter from Fr. Hurley, St Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner St., Dublin, to Pádraig [?], comprising 'notes from mss Mt Briscoe 1785.' The letter composed in Irish, contains transcripts in English from an 18th century manuscript loaned to Hurley in 1948 from Mrs Briscoe following a lecture to the Kildare Archaeological Society. Hurley notes that the author of the manuscript was a good historian and evidently had a good knowledge of sources available to him at the time of writing. The manuscript concerns the history of the Briscoes, the marriage of John Briscoe to Eleanor Kearney and the construction of Srahkerne Castle (Srah Castle, Tullamore) in 1588.
Research on Kilbride Church and Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Kilbride, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 662. Contains field sheet with sketches of site plan, exterior and interior elevations, a written report over eleven pages and 48 photographs.
Research on Kildangan Ecclesiastical Remains, Co. Offaly (Parish of Durrow, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 667. Contains field sheet and two photographs.
Research on Lynally Glebe Church, Graveyard and Priest's Residence, Co. Offaly (Parish of Lynally, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 694. Contains field sheet with sketches of site plan, interior and exterior elevations and inscriptions of 17th century grave slab. Incl. a written report over 14 pages and 100 photographs.