Deeds and rental notice relating to the townland of Clonshanny, in the barony of Ballycowan, Offaly.

Includes:
Renewal of Lease of 1776 for lands of Clonshanny, Amelia Drought and Horatio Emerson Esq. to Charles Bagot Esq., 10 December 1824;
Landed Estates Court Rentals for the estate of John Emerson for parts of the lands of Castletown (in the conditions of sale, it is noted as 'known as Clonshanny'), and divided parts of the lands of Surin and Ballynasudry, 1861;
Conveyance, The Landed Estates Court to Anthony Mathews and William Russell Esqs., 28 January 1862;
Fee Farm Grant, Thomas Homan Mulock Esq. to Frances Fenamore, 24 October 1879.

Original incoming and copy outgoing correspondence concerning aspects of estate management undertaken by A & L Goodbody, solicitors on behalf of Bellair House Estate. Includes legitimacy of land ownership; rental arrears; payment receipts; disputes over rent; court orders and estate duties paid for Henry P Mulock.

Includes letter from Goodbody & Tisdall Solicitors to William Bury Homan Mulock: "In further reply to yours of 21st in June 1900 we sent you a Court Order for £11-1-6; being the 2 years' rent which these defendants lodged in Court, and we subsequently, by bringing another ejectment in October 1900 recovered another year's rent for you up to 1st May 1900, which we sent you on 31st October 1900; but we cannot trace any further sum of 10/- sent by us in the following November. Could you have received this from any of the tenants, or through Mr Browne?" (23 October 1901)

Copy of lease for part of the lands and bog of Clonshanny from Milo and Sophia Bagot to Daniel Bagot for three lives from 1776, at the yearly rent of £6.

Copy of renewal of lease of part of the lands of Clonshanny between Emelia Emerson, Thomas Drought, the Reverend William Drought to William Finnamore for three lives from 1847, at the yearly rent of £4-4.