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Research on Castletown Bawn, Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 979.
Contains field sheet with sketches of interior and exterior elevations and a site plan, a written report over two pages and 19 photographs.

Research on Aghadouglas Mill House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Ettagh, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: not applicable.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over two pages and four photographs.

Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating to management of the Charleville estate. Matters referred to include: lodgement of Power of Attorney granted to Ernest Browne by Charles Bury for dealings with the Charleville Estate and Land Commission; Charles Bury consideration to appeal a decision by inland revenue to the House of Lords and ultimate decision to not appeal; information on the Mechanical Transport Section of the ASC [Army Service Corps] under the War Office; income tax deducted by Messrs Stapleton for the Tore and Belvedere Estate; sale of the Three Blacks, Athlone; attempt to resist a tenant's application to redeem the rent of La Mancha, Mullingar and contentions that this holding should not be affected by the Land Act.

Includes letter from Captain Charles Bury to E White "Browne will have written to you I expect about the Appeal. My opinion is that under existing circumstances we ought not to carry it on to the House of Lords and I know that Lord Lansdowne agrees with me. If it had not been for the war and the growing scarcity of money, I should have liked very much to go on with it and I daresay we might proved successful, but at present the risk is too great. My present chauffeur is very anxious to join the Irish Motor Transport. Can he do this and what steps must he take? He is a good driver and mechanic and comes from Geashill; his name is Donaldson. (12 December 1915)

Deeds and correspondence relating to the Abbeylands (part of Millbrook)

An envelope marked "Woodfield" containing documents relating to Constance Lamb's inheritance of Woodfield House through the Will of Abraham Augustus Fuller, and management of Adam Henry Fuller's Trust.

Research on Clonmacnoise Church, Co. Offaly (Parish of Clonmacnoise, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 641.
Contains field sheet and nine photographs.

Original incoming and copy outgoing correspondence concerning aspects of estate management undertaken by A. & L. Goodbody, solicitors on behalf of Lord Digby, such as rent collection, timber sales, illegal timber cutting on the estate, the terminal illness of Edward Nesbitt (estate bailiff), fishery rights on the Erne and the Moy, and sporting rights over the lands of Geashilll granted to Lord Digby and his father for life by the tenants.

Includes copy letter from Goodbody to Digby concerning fishery rights: '...As to the possibility of future legislation here. Well nothing that the [Salmon Fisheries] Association can do will stop the Government if they want to pass legislation. Strong opposition was put up about the ridiculous Irish language movement without any effect whatever. The idealists seem to get it all their own way and the opposition had not the courage to speak out their mind or vote as their conscience tells them they should vote, so they appear to have stayed away in the Senate instead of voting against it.' (8 May 1929)

Research on Aghadouglas Tower House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Ettagh, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 821.
Contains field sheet with details to level of preservation, nature of surviving structures and walls. Incl. a sketch of the site, a written report over three pages and seven photographs.

Research on Aghadouglas Church Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Ettagh, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 613.
Contains field sheet with a written report over one page and three photographs.

Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating a grant claim for Geashill Castle after its destruction. Includes a copy of the brief for counsel for the claim of £19,614.17 for Geashill Castles and its contents (1923); evaluation of three elk horns destroyed in the fire;
letter from Lord Digby to Goodbody Solicitors, Dorset "I must congratulate you once more for the very successful result of your hard work in relation to this claim, and I know what a difficult case it must have been for you to get a satisfactory settlement. I think you ought to know how very please I am over the way the case was conducted" (22 February 1926); letter from the Ministery of Finance details that "under the Malicious Injury Act you are entitle in this case to £1635 in clash, and £1100 in Bonds - total £2735" (19 February 1926).