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            IE OCL P35/7/19 · Item · undated
            Part of Papers of R.H. Moore

            Statement from Patrick Boland, Chairman Offaly County Council appealing for the farmers of Leix and Offaly to increase food production and suggesting the Parish Council take a census of all arable land in the area and to impress on those who can to increase their acreage by 20 percent.

            IE OCL P35/4/8/1 · Item · undated
            Part of Papers of R.H. Moore

            Notebook containing newspaper clippings of minutes of Banagher Branch of the Irish Farmers Union. Deals with such matters as setting of Fair days, fixing a price for barley. With memo from Offaly County Council acknowledging application for Relief Grant Scheme and encouragement of trade in the towns of Banagher and Birr.

            Minute Book
            IE OH OHS5/2 · Item · 1924-1950
            Part of Records of Offaly Farming and Industrial Society

            Minute book recording the decisions taken at general and executive meetings of the Offaly Farming and Industrial Society, mainly relating to the society's financial position and the hosting of the Tullamore Agricultural and Industrial Show. Includes minutes of discussions surrounding the taking over by the society of the cricket club field at Spollanstown for use as a show ground, and subsequent negotiations with Tullamore GAA who requested that the field be used for matches and training (1924). Also records later proposals to sell the field to the combined Tullamore Association Football and Rugby Clubs (1944).

            IE OH OHS48 · Fonds · 1870-1920

            13 volumes of photograph albums, known to Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society as the Magan-Biddulph Collection. complied by Lt. Col. Middleton Westenra Biddulph, landowner of the Rathrobin estate, near Mountbolus, County Offaly. Biddulph was born in Rathrobin in 1849, the eldest surviving son of Francis Marsh Biddulph and Lucy Bickerstaff. The Biddulph family's landholding was principally in the townlands of Rathrobin and those adjoining of Clonseer, Cormeen, Kilmore and Mullaghcrohy, all near Mountbolus, in the civil parish of Killoughy and the barony of Ballyboy. Middleton Biddulph enlisted with the Northumberland Fusiliers (Fifth Regiment) in 1867, rising to the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel before his retirement in 1896. Following his retirement, Biddulph and his wife, Vera Josephine Flower, returned to Rathrobin and rebuilt the old house over the period 1898 to 1900. Biddulph served as High Sheriff for King's County in 1901, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1910.

            As a keen amateur photographer, Biddulph used a quarter plate camera to document his various areas of interest including; his military career with the Northumberland Fusiliers; visits to country houses across Ireland, England and Scotland; members of the Biddulph and Magan family; visits around Ireland as part of the Royal Society of Antiquarians; interior and exterior photographs of Rathrobin House; agricultural work on the estate. There is also an extent of photographs of tenant families and employees of the Rathrobin estate, featured across the photograph albums.

            Biddulph and his wife left for England in June 1921 as the military campaign of the IRA in the locality intensified, and Rathrobin House was destroyed by Republican IRA forces in April 1923. While he seemed to have planned to return to Ireland after this, an attack on his land agent and niece, Violet Magan, and his own declining health delayed plans to do so, and he died in Chelsea in May 1926. The albums were presented to Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society in 1997 by Brigadier William Magan, a nephew of the photographer.

            Biddulph, Middleton Westenra, Lt Col
            Loughton letters.
            IE OCL P131/4/2/5 · File · 24 April 1897-13 December 1905
            Part of Loughton Papers

            File of letters relating to Loughton House.

            Examples of letters include a letter from the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench dated 20 November 1900
            'Dear Sir,
            Your letter of 16th inst. received, and I send you herewith for your information some copies of audited balnce sheets of Co-operative Dairy Societies which I hope will be useful to you. I hope the project of starting a co-operative Creamery for MoneyGall may prove successful. We shall be glad at any time to give you any information or advice in our power.'

            Also included is a letter from James Guilfoyle, John Murphy, and John Healy dated 25 November 1895
            'Sir,
            We the undersigned having had the misfortune of being found trespassing on part of your property known as the lands of Clinoe with dogs in our possession on the 20th inst by Mr George [Frend] of Silver Hills, and for which we tender an apology to your honor and by to assure you that it being our first time in trespassing on your property that during our natural life we shall never attempt to repeat such an act. By hoping that this apology will satisfy your honour and again we say that we [resoundingly] report what we have done. With profound respect we beg to remain yours honour's most obedient servants.'

            Trench, Benjamin Bloomfield
            Loughton forest.
            IE OCL P131/4/2/7 · File · 24 January 1947-October 1947
            Part of Loughton Papers

            The documents within this file relate to the maintenance and care of Loughton forest.

            A 1947 report states that Loughton forest is 'uniform in age and in the species of trees they contain-they are mature woods- I would guess the age as well over 100 years'. The report also describes the forest in detail point and features an area by area breakdown based on tree type. The forest is largely made up of Beech and Oak trees.

            The file also encloses a letter from Mr Peter Joseph Murphy, 'Tulach Dore Lodge', Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Leix (Laois) applying for job as a wooding steward. He also encloses references.

            IE OCL P131/5/8 · Item · 6 January 1936-1943
            Part of Loughton Papers

            Summary account book containing information regarding cattle sheep dividends, poor rates, repairs and maintenance, sundry expenses, milk record and service fees.

            IE OCL P131/4/2/2 · Item · 2 February 1896-25 May 1916
            Part of Loughton Papers

            File of plans showing the drainage and sanitation of Loughton House.

            Included in the file are items such as a plan showing drainage system drawn up by The London Sanitary Protection Association, 4 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, London and a sanitary report of Loughton dated 25 May 1916.