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Original incoming and copy outgoing correspondence relating to the administration of the Geashill Estate. Matters referred to include Matters referred to include repairs to tenants’ houses; employer’s liability insurance premiums; cleaning of sewage at Geashill Garda Barrack; repairs to boiler at Clonad Saw Mills; a visit by Lord Digby to Ashford Castle and Birr Castle; the possibility of three phase electricity to Clonad in the future; queries on the rights of Lord Digby to buy land in Ireland at the same rate of stamp duty as an Irish citizen under the Irish Nationality & Citizens Act 1935-1937; and the death of George Muir on 22 September 1950.

Includes letter from Offaly County Council to Goodbody Solicitors regarding the felling of trees on Digby estate to "give clear passage on public roads for buses and in other cases to prevents damage to road by overhanging trees". (24 November 1948).

Includes letter from the Department of Industry & Commerce in relation to an inspection carried out at Clonad Sawmills under the Holiday (Employee) Act 1929, where irregularity was observed in annual leave and that “workers not allowed 7 consecutive whole holiday within their employment years” (18 July 1950). This was responded to by the Estate Agents on 1 August 1950 confirming that this statutory would be observed at the sawmills.

Tenancy agreements with monthly and yearly rents payable.
Mainly Killeigh and Geashill but also townlands of Killeenmore, Ballydownan, Cappancur, Cloncon, Derrybeg, Colehill, Newtown, Meelaghans, Killellery, Derryclure, Toberleheen, Knockballyboy, Gorteen, Ballina and Ballinvally

Lease of part of the lands of Killenmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to Benjamin Sharp for three lives, or 31 years, at the yearly rate of £14-0-0.

Lease of part of the land of Killinmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to George Peirce Esq..

Lease of part of the lands of Killenmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to Thomas Carroll for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £9-9-0.
Including 'A map of part of Killinmore in the King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Containing 13.2.0 plantation measure laid down in 1792 by Michael Cuddehy’, hand coloured, with bordering land leased to William Kinch and James Dunn, plot of land for lease in tenure of widow Bridget Carroll.

Lease of part of the lands of Killenmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to Murtagh Cleary for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £20-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Killenmore in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Pat Cleary, William Cleary, widow Gallagher, James Dunne, Edward Cleary, Charles Cleary and SIr William Cusack Smith.

Lease of part of the lands of Killinmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to Martin Bennet for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £20-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Killinmore in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Mr George Pierce, John W. Tarleton and Michael Carroll.

Lease of part of the lands of Killinmore from Edward Earl Digby to John and Darby Smollen for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £9-10-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Killinmore in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Peter Flanagan, Richard Dunn, Dennis Mooney, Patt Mullady and Bridget Owens.

Lease of part of the lands of Killinmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to Richard Dunne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £8-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Killinmore in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to John and Darby Smollen, Howard and Edward Egan, Michael Hanlon and Widow Corcoran.

The autograph book originally belonged to John Lennon, of Killeenmore, Killeigh, and Harbour St, Tullamore. He was an internee of the Rath Internment Camp at the Curragh (1921) and later of Tintown Camp (1923). The album contains many Laois/Offaly signatories such as E. Forrestal, Tullamore (Rath); Bob Lennon, Killeigh (Rath); Frank Bulfin TD, Derrinlough, Birr (Rath); Seaghan Ó Dulchaointigh, Crinkle, Birr (Rath); J. G. Ross, Killeigh (Rath); Patrick J. Daly, Tullamore (Hut 31, Rath), Jimmie Egan, Henry Street, Tullamore (Hut 25, Rath), Denis Walsh, Tullamore (Hut 40, Rath); Séamus O’Faolain (Hut 12 Camp 3 Tintown), Patrick Boland, Ballycumber, (Camp 3 Tintown), Walter A. Mitchell (Camp 2 Tintown); Edward Dunne, Clonaslee (Camp 2, Tintown), Sean McGuinness TD, Kilbeggan, and P. Bracken, Clonaslee (Hut 12 Tintown). Later non-political entries dating from c. 1927 are by Maggie Corcoran (later Lennon) and her relatives and friends.