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Volumes recording tenant, townland and rent relating to the Geashill Estate.

Tin deed box containing tradesmen’s accounts to the 4th Earl, mostly in original bundles.

Three leases, and a deed merging tithe rent-charges, in respect of two further townlands in the barony of Lower Ormond, Carrigagowan and Clonmona.

John Williams private accounts, including paid receipts, 1910

Five envelopes containing miscellaneous estate accounts and financial and estate correspondence of the Birr Estate Office, much of it about arterial drainage (including printed matter back to 1869), one account of 1874 mentioning the cost of labour on the mounting for the three-foot telescope, and other long runs of accounts relating to the Dovegrove, Killeen and Newtown farms and stock, and to the manor saw mill, 1886-1912. [Not in chronological order.]

Booklet entitled ‘Souvenir of St. Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg, King’s County. A College (1818 to 1886); Noviceship and House of Studies (since 1888) of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.’ Lists: Rectors of the College, 1818 to 1886;
– Rectors and Masters of Novices since 1888;
– Staff of St. Stanislaus’ College, 1840-1885;
– Summary of Results.
Interspersed with photos of relevant persons, grounds and interiors.

Receipts of rental payments made by Francis William Lamb to T B Atkinson for the property at 31 Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, Dublin.

Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr: the Castle – his youthful recollections of it, extensions to it 1867-72 [see also M/25], a magazine portrait of his way of life there, 1898, and magazine obituaries of him, 1908; an incident which took place on the road between Banagher and Parsonstown and in which the 4th Earl and his party were stopped and temporarily put in gaol by a drunken R.I.C. man, 1868; the Parsonstown Barracks, 1869, 1899 and N.D.; the Parsonstown Town Commission and Commissioners, 1870 and 1885; admissions to the demesne of privileged locals, 1876-1910; and one of the bridges in the Birr Castle demesne, and the Rivers Brosna and Camcor, 1880 and 1896. The correspondents include Gladstone, W.E. Forster and Lords Strathnairn and Roberts. The sub-section also includes a small account book recording local subscriptions to the Parsonstown Defence Association, the Property Defence Association, the legal fund of the Irish Land Committee, and the Field and Rossmore Testimonials, c.1882.

Twelve Masonic degrees and one certificate of Knighthood bestowed on Reverend Abraham Stritch Fuller.

Deeds relating to the lands of Ballykeenaghan, barony of Ballycowan, County Offaly. Arranged chronologically.