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Rental of the estate of the Earl of Charleville. Lists the denominations, tenants, acreage, yearly rent and other notes. Frequently amended with addition of new tenants and details of lease renewals

Texts of legislation relating to factory conditions and terms of employment.

1. ‘Textile Factories Factory and Workshop Act, 1878’ signed by R. G. For J. & L. F. Goodbody.

2. ‘Textile Factory and Workshop Act 1901-1916’, signed by J. & L. F. Goodbody, Ltd., 5 September 1921.

3. ‘Textile Factories factory and Workshop Acts 1901-1920’ signed by J. & L. F. Goodbody, Ltd., 23 March 1925.

4. ‘Textile Factory and Workshop Act 1937’, signed by Harold J. Goodbody, August 1937.

Farm account books and invoices relating to Kelly Farm, Bunsallagh, Croghan.

Bills of account and receipts issued by T. P. & R. Goodbody, Tullamore; Michael Berrill, draper, Tullamore; P. & A. Foy & Sons, cattle salesmen, Tullamore; Gas Purification & Chemical Company. Also includes receipts for paying poor rate, license for a sheep dog and forms of declaration for sheep-dipping.

Farm account book devised for use by agricultural schools and model farms. Includes labour accounts for each week, indicating casual labourers hired for the farm and the house. Also includes cash accounts, valuations and inventory. Heavily annotated throughout with memoranda columns used on occasion to note local births, marriages and deaths up until 1912.

Some of the labourers hired as servants show outgoings in cash to purchase boots, clothes or to give to parents.

Partially used farm account book including labour accounts, cash accounts, valuation and inventory. Mainly used to record hiring of casual labour for the farm and the house. Annotated in parts with local births, marriages and deaths.

Receipts and documents relating to the lands at Bunsallagh, including:

1) receipt issued for rent paid to the Earl of Charleville (1854-1855) and signed by agent, Francis Berry.
2) schedule of lands relating to the proposed railway line through land occupied by Ann Kelly, 1886
3) return for the townlands of Bunsallagh to the Commissioner for Valuation, 1910

This collection is comprised of the records of Patrick Moore & Sons, Victuallers of Edenderry and Rathangan. They were a family business who sold meat to the surrounding towns including Edenderry, Rathangan, Allenwood, Clonbulloge, Enfield, Kinnegad and Rhode. The collection includes ledgers, cash books, stock books, daily order books and van sales books. There are also documents regarding financial accounts such as bank account books, customer account books, bills of account with local traders, Dublin traders and a trader from Manchester. Also includes documents of their accounts with other businesses and legal costs as well as personal family photographs. A note in ledger P1/C/17 from 1923 recounts that Judge Wakely's house, Ballyburly, near Rhode, was 'burned by irregulars' in 1923.

Individuals and businesses that had an account with Patrick Moore & Sons include:
Coopers & Bailey, Central Market London.
H.M. Hawkins, Seifond, Dorchester.
Doctor Hamilton, Edenderry.
E.J.B. Nesbitt, Rutland Gate, London.
E.J.B. Nesbitt, Penton Lodge, Andover.
D. Alesbury.
Civic Guards, Edenderry.
J. Joly, Clonbologue.

Patrick Moore & Sons had accounts with:
William Bros, Edenderry (Grocery Account)
M.J. O'Brien, Edenderry.
William Bros. (Petrol Account)
Offaly County Board of Health and Public Assistance.

Poster advertising a carnival at Birr organised by the South Offaly Local Defence Force with dancing, parades and hurling tournaments.

Manuscript rent roll for the Banagher Estate, King's County. Lists tenants' names and rents paid for the years 1835-1840. Verso contains general directions for seizing sale stocks and property in the even of non-payment of rent: '...you are to proceed against any tenant who does not pay or get time. This rule is of first importance. If you know of any reason why time may not be safely given you are to mention it should such delay be applied for...'

Also includes a printed rental from 1834 possibly drawn up for sale of lands in the encumbered estates court.