General List of Jurors, Geashill (1878)
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- 29 July 1878
A list of 69 jurors for the barony of Geashill, with various exemptions noted due to age, profession, ill-health, disability or property ownership.
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General List of Jurors, Geashill (1878)
A list of 69 jurors for the barony of Geashill, with various exemptions noted due to age, profession, ill-health, disability or property ownership.
General List of Jurors, Geashill (1879)
A list of 65 jurors for the barony of Geashill, with various exemptions noted due to age, profession, ill-health, disability or property ownership.
General List of Jurors, Geashill (1880)
A list of 68 jurors for the barony of Geashill, with various exemptions noted due to age, profession, ill-health, disability or property ownership.
Soft bound minute book of the King’s County Infirmary board of management meetings. Minutes consist of an overview of tenders for supplies, statements of account and building repairs and maintenance. Records decisions regarding the hiring and managing of staff, fees for patients, and transcription of correspondence. The board were often concerned with funding, establishing an ‘Improvement Fund Collection’, received funds from the Tuberculosis Scheme Grant and through Lady Rosse (later, Viscountess de Vesci) petitioned for a grant from the Joint War Committee for the hospital which they received in August 1920.
Meetings between January and August 1921 discuss the possible and eventual closure of the County Infirmary and the amalgamation of the institution with the Central Hospital which was formally the Union Hospital.
Prominent members of board include, Rev. W Phelan (Chairman June 1921), Rev J. Flynn (Vice-Chairman June 1921), R.S. Craig, Rev PJ Egan, Rev Philip Callery, J.M Russell, J.A Lumley, and Rev John Humphries.
It was noted in October 1920, that Fr Thomas Burbage, a noted Republican and a member of the Board had a lucky escape after being shot at by the military on his journey between Tullamore and Geashill by motor bicycle.
King's County Infirmary
Part of Loughton Papers
Encumbered estates court, rental of the lands of Raheenbeg in the King's County to be sold by the commissioners, at their court
Part of Loughton Papers
Encumbered estates court rental and particulars of valuable property in King's County, consisting of the town and lands of Ballyskenagh, Lisnegerry, otherwise Lisnageeragh, and portions of the lands of Clyduff and Lower Clyduff, barony of Clonlisk, King's County.
Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. 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.
Lennon, John
Minor verses and riddles transcribed by J. G. Ross, Killeenmore, Killeigh
Verse transcribed by B[rigid] Lennon, Killeenmore.
Note by Bob Lennon, Killeenmore, Killeigh:
'A lonely spot. I wish I was here but not a lone of course'