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Letters and papers of the successive Rosse agents, George and Toler R. Garvey Senior and Junior, in their capacity as agents for other estates, mainly in King's County and Tipperary, 1840-1945.

King's County estates other than the Rosse estate include the Bannon estate at Broughall; the Bennett estate at Thomastown; Malone Barrett estate at Temora; Biddulph estate at Coolinariney; the Drought estate at Whigsboruogh; Hacektt estate of Moore Park, Birr; Kemmis estate at Coolnahely and other areas; King estate at Ballylin; Head estate at Derrylahen; Holmes estate at Moneygall; Mooney estate at The Doon; and the Piggott estate at Shragh.

Outside of King's County, the Garveys represented the Briscoe Eyre estate at Eyrecourt, Co Galway; Galbraith estate at and around Loughrea, Co Galway; Kingscote estate at Newport, Co. Tipperary; Holmes estate at Nenagh Co. Tipperary; Lodwick estate at Lisheen, Co Tipperary; Piggott estate at Dundrum, Co Down and Tincurry , Co Tipperary; Purser estate of Arborhill and Clonmona, Co Tipperary; and the Toler estate at and around Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

Correspondence and other papers of the 4th and 5th Earls of Rosse on subjects other than astronomy, including estate and other King’s County affairs, the 4th Earl’s contributions to public life as a representative peer, Chancellor of T.C.D., etc, etc.

Letters, 1791-1834, to Sir Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse, from his principal correspondents, on all manner of personal, political and business matters, arranged chronologically according to the date of the first item in each sub-section.

Letters and papers, 1765-c. 1820 and 1855, of Sir Laurence Parsons, 5th Baronet, who succeeded in 1807 as 2nd Earl of Rosse (of the second creation, the earldom in the elder branch of the Parsons family having died out in 1764), reflecting Parsons's youthful intimacy with Henry Flood, and consisting of correspondence and speech-notes of Flood, letters to Parsons from and about Flood, and drafts for biographical and historical writings by Parsons on Flood.

Letters and papers, 1791-1841, of Sir Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse, including (during his lifetime) papers of his first and second sons, Lord Oxmantown and the Hon. John Clere Parsons, arranged by topic, and chronologically according to the date of the first item in each sub-section.

Maps, plans and drawings, [c.1610], 1638, [c. 1690] and c. 1750-1790, mainly of a size which makes it physically convenient to form them into a separate section.

Journals containing astronomical observations, drawings of nebula, drafts for articles and speeches on astronomy, and other papers (excluding correspondence) of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Rosse on the subject of astronomy, [pre-1828-1908].

Artificial collection of letters and papers, 1856-2006, received or assembled by other members of the Parsons/Rosse family, concerning the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, the inventor of the turbine engine, a younger brother of the 4th Earl of Rosse.

Correspondence of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Rosse with fellow-astronomers or about the Birr and other observatories, including correspondence of the 5th and 6th Earls about the Birr Observatory, 1840-1909, 1913-14, 1938 and 1964-84.