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Research on Bellmount or Lisderg Castle Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Tisaran, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 894.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over two pages and two photographs.

Research on Churchland and Clonmore "Seir Kieran" Ecclesiatical Remains, Co. Offaly (Parish of Seir Kieran, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 636.
Contains field sheet with sketches of exterior and interior elevations, a written report over nine pages and 96 photographs.

Original incoming and copy outgoing correspondence relating to the administration of the Geashill Estate. Matters referred to include forestry; stamp duty; tenancy arrears; damages occurred to iron gates on Lord Digby's property during the thinning of surrounding forests; sporting rights for Lord Digby's property in Glenamoy, Mayo; list of tree seads for planting on Digby estate; repairs to Lord Digby's Ford Thames truck; proposal from Bord na Mona to to purchase Digby's land in Mayo; application on behalf of Lord Digby for a salmon licence.

Includes copy letter from A T Lucas, Director of National Museum of Ireland to Digby, "You will, I feel sure, be interested to learn that the Geashill cauldron has just been placed on exhibition after a cleaning process which, I hope, has brought it to something like the pristine brilliances which you described to me. It has also been labelled in accordance with the wording you suggested. I take this opportunity of placing on record our very sincere thanks for the extraordinary lengths to which you have gone to help the Museum through the very strange vicissitudes which beset this cauldron over so many years and our deep gratitude for the final generous gesture which secured it for the nation". (5 March 1955)

Includes letter from Digby to Kennedy, "I would be inclined to resist the selling of the [Village] Green at Geashill and say that for sentimental reasons, I wish to retain it. If you thought it advisable to day, which is true, that I am proud of the fact that I am the 11th Baron Digby of Geashill and that for the dame reason I have tried to retain the castle ruins, both old and new". (14 April 1955)

Researcht on Killooly Fortified House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Killoughy, Barony of Ballyboy). County Inventory Registration: 874.
Contains field sheet with sketches of site plan, exterior and interior elevations, a written report over five pages and 35 photographs.

Two copies of a lease for part of the lands of the Meelaghans from Edward Earl Digby to Michael Cuddehy, surveyor, for three lives from 1797, at the yearly rate of £60-6-3.
Including 'A map of the Meelaghans containing 99.3.1 Plantation measure situate in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of The Right Honourable Earl of Digby. Surveyed in and copied in 1793 by Michael Cuddehy', hand coloured, scale of 20 Perches in one Inch, bordering land leased to Robert Egan, Joseph Flanagan and Matt Kelly.

Research on Cully House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Killoughy, Barony of Ballyboy). County Inventory Registration: 954.
Contains field sheet with sketches of exterior and interior elevations, a written report over two pages and 15 photographs.

Research on Clonony More Tower House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Gallen, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 839.
Contains field sheet and six A3 sheets with plans of the different floors and rear view. Incl. 126 photographs.

Assignment of interest of Nicholas M. Delamere in lands of Meelaghans

Letters of the Prefect of Studies (Fr Michael Connolly SJ) to Fr Provincial.

Covering letter from Fr Thomas Byrne SJ to Fr Brendan Lawler SJ of Tullabeg (9 October 1948, 1p.), enclosing the official copy of the document of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, by which Tullabeg is recognised as a Philosophical Faculty of the Society.