Octavo volume recording, by townland and then alphabetically by tenants, houses and offices on [the ‘outer estate’. Q/316 is also on MIC.564.]

Battered folio ledger titled ‘Out-goings, 2 [no sign of ‘1’], recording ‘out-goings’ on sundry people and for sundry purposes (drainage, interest, head rents, game and farm expenses, etc).

Battered folio ledger, titled ‘Out-goings, 3’, recording ‘out-goings’ on sundry people and for sundry purposes(drainage, interest, head rents, game and farm expenses, etc).

‘Out-goings, 4’

‘Out-goings, 5’.

Papers about Birr Church of Ireland church and parish, including historical compilations of the rev. Dr Samuel Hemphill, Rector of Birr, covering the period 1612-1903. The compilations consist of a small quarto notebook containing MS. Copies of 1642 depositions concerning the neighbourhood of Birr; another containing a history of Birr Church of Ireland church (taken from vestry books, parish registers, etc), 1760-1903); and two succession lists of Birr incumbents, 1612-1912. The sub-section also includes a series of printed annual reports on the parish and on the diocese of Killaloe and Kilfenora, 1900-10.

97 Minute Books -
BG164/1/1-97: June 1839 - August 1921
(Note: name changes to Birr Union after January 1900).

Photograph album created by Lt. Col. M. O'Carroll Fitz-Simon, M.C. , who began his military career in Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment, which was headquartered at Birr. The photographs document a peace-keeping mission the Leinsters undertook in Silesia (now part of Poland) from their departure at Dover on 31 May 1921, through Germany and to their destination of Oppeln (Opole in Poland today). Following the disbandment of the regiment in June 1922, Fitz-Simon joined the King's Own Regiment, Lancaster and the remaining photographs in the album depict scenes from missions in India and Burma. There is also a small number of photographs of people and houses in the Birr area including Whigsborough House, and the burnt out remains of Birr Barracks (following its destruction in the Civil War in July 1922).