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Typed letter from J. F. Mahon, Secretary, Offaly County Board to the secretary of Banagher Parish Council noting, that allotments provided by the Board of Health should not exceed one quarter of an acre.
Typed letter from J. F. Mahon, Secretary, Offaly County Board of Health stating that it is not possible to send down a man to search for suitable land for allotments.
Copy letter to Secretary of Offaly County Board of Health noting that there are twenty-eight applicants for land and that there was no forthcoming information as to any available land about town.
Notebook containing newspaper clippings of minutes of Banagher Branch of the Irish Farmers Union. Deals with such matters as setting of Fair days, fixing a price for barley. With memo from Offaly County Council acknowledging application for Relief Grant Scheme and encouragement of trade in the towns of Banagher and Birr.
Notebook of Thomas Clavin, butcher at 19 William St, Tullamore, detailing animals purchased on fair days indicating price paid and name of vendor. Also includes looseleaf pages recording the meat account, wages paid, sheep slaughtered and a memorandum from the Department of Agriculture.
Bills of account and receipts issued by T. P. & R. Goodbody, Tullamore; Michael Berrill, draper, Tullamore; P. & A. Foy & Sons, cattle salesmen, Tullamore; Gas Purification & Chemical Company. Also includes receipts for paying poor rate, license for a sheep dog and forms of declaration for sheep-dipping.
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
Partially used farm account book including labour accounts, cash accounts, valuation and inventory. Mainly used to record hiring of casual labour for the farm and the house. Annotated in parts with local births, marriages and deaths.
Farm account book devised for use by agricultural schools and model farms. Includes labour accounts for each week, indicating casual labourers hired for the farm and the house. Also includes cash accounts, valuations and inventory. Heavily annotated throughout with memoranda columns used on occasion to note local births, marriages and deaths up until 1912.
Some of the labourers hired as servants show outgoings in cash to purchase boots, clothes or to give to parents.