Correspondence to Fr Brendan Murray SJ, Rector, Tullabeg, from Hoey and Denning solicitors, Tullamore, county Offaly, relating to payment of £100 for an entrance to the new cemetery at Rahan.

Volume of drawings and specifications of pattern articles to be adapted in War Department works and buildings. Issued to Birr Barracks.

Patents appointing the 5th Earl Lieutenant and Custos rotulorum of King’s County in succession to his late father,
including two letters from [the Lord Lieutenant], Lord Aberdeen, on the subject (one of them making unsubtle reference to the necessity for the 5th Earl’s committing himself to political support of the government of the day), letters to the 5th Earl giving confidential opinions as to the suitability of various people for appointment as J.P.s, and a tradesman’s account for supplying a Lieutenant’s flag for Birr Castle. [Not in chronological order.]

Volumes of rough minutes taken from meetings of the Board of Guardians of Parsonstown Union. Contains listings of rates collected across electoral divisions; invoice accounts from the Parsonstown Workhouse and Outdoor Relief; notes on orders and actions in response to reports and correspondence received by the Board of Guardians.

Copies of outgoing letters from John V. Brown, clerk of Parsonstown Union to various recipients, particularly the Poor Law Commissioners, detailing reliefs and works. Also includes copy outgoing correspondence relating to assisted emigration schemes for inmates of the Parsonstown workhouse during the course of the Great Famine.

The minutes contain the proceedings of the meetings of the Board of Guardians of Parsonstown Union, containing reports from the clerk of the union, the master of the workhouse, the sanitary officers and others. Also recorded are members present, details of correspondence, proposals and resolution passed.

Thick folio volume titled ‘Parsonstown [ie inner estate]: tenants’ accounts’, [including details of tenures and therefore possessing elements of a leasebook [see Q/16].

Minutes of Parsonstown Burial Board, recording the proceedings and decisions made at monthly meetings and special meetings involving the Drumbane Burial Ground, Clonoghill Cemetery.

Includes typescript abstract of minute book.

Papers of William Lamb, inherited by his son Francis William Lamb and kept at Woodfield House.

Material from Woodfield House that relates to the history of the Lamb, Johnston, and Fuller families.