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UF Killinmore
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UF Killinmore
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 land of Killinmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to George Peirce Esq..
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.
UntitledVerse transcribed by B[rigid] Lennon, Killeenmore:
'When the evening sun is setting, and your mind from care is free. When of home you are thinking, won't you sometimes think of me.'