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An artificially constructed collection of generally dissociated documents relating to the Charleville Estate and the Bury family/earls of Charleville. Contains some legal documents such as marriage settlements and leases; correspondence relating to financial matters on the Charleville Estate and associated estates, e.g., the Marlay estate.; newspaper cuttings on various members of the Bury family; and correspondence and drawings relating to the Bury family jewels.

The collection is comprised of artefacts, plans and drawings of the Clashawaun Works (jute spinning mill) and its machinery. The business records include; material relating to the formation of the limited company in 1888; correspondence with directors and partners; notices of meetings and resolutions adopted; some handwritten minutes and material relating to the formation of the limited company to a public company in 1937.

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.

Estate papers comprising of estate accounts, tenancy agreements, farms accounts, land titles and correspondence.

Letter from John and Eva Monteith at Long Island, New York, to Alice Lamb at Woodfield House, County Offaly, giving her their best wishes for her full recovery, and an invitation to visit them in New York when she is better.

Box of leases of premises in Castle Street, including a lease and counterpart lease of ‘Crotty’s Church’, 1837 [see E/11], and papers relating to the sale of a Castle Street fee farm grant to the personal representatives of Claude Corcoran. The box also includes a large folder of correspondence about the Birr Trustee Company’s proposed purchase of Spinner’s
Bistro in Castle Street, which was eventually bought by another party.

Two letter to Reverend Canon Adam Lamb. The first contains information about Rope's Rest (South Circular Road), Dublin, County Dublin. The second letter, from John Platt at West Side, Brompton-on-Swale, Richmond, Yorkshire, England, contains information about the famous gentleman robber Paul Liddy, found in the book, "The History of the Irish Rogues and Rapparees", published in 1776, and accessed at The National Library in Dublin.

Letter from John Monteith to Constance Lamb with an update on Eva Monteith's poor condition. He encloses both his and Eva's best wishes for Alice's recovery. The letter mentions that Eva Aileen Marsh, niece of Eva Monteith will be visiting at the end of the month.

Sheet of paper to which are attached: a letter from Sophia Hyland to Lizzie Fuller; Letter from Joseph Loughman to Captain Adam Henry Fuller at Woodfield, Clara, King's County (County Offaly); letter from Captain Adjutant of the Monaghan Regiment in Monaghan, to Captain Adam Henry Fuller at Rockfield, Horseleap, Moate, County Westmeath.

Letter from Isabelle Lemarié of the Tree Council of Ireland, Cabinteely House, Cabinteely, County Dublin, to Doctor Keith Lamb and Helen Lamb at Woodfield, Clara, County Offaly.