Papers of the Lamb, Fuller, Johnston, Shaw, and Tobias families, and the members that were connected with Woodfield House.
Lamb FamilyThree fragmentary draft or sketch maps on tracing paper of south and west Offaly dating to c.1808, and a fourth of the King's Channel area , County Waterford, dating possibly to Larkin's survey of County Waterford in 1818.
Larkin, WilliamAccounts, legal documents, correspondence and marketing material relating to the foundation companies of the Williams Group, namely Tullamore Distillery, B. Daly & Co. Ltd., D. E. Williams Ltd., Irish Mist Liqueur Co. Ltd. and other associated companies.
Williams Group Tullamore Ltd.The collection consists of 54 bound volumes including letter books, client account ledgers, and cashbooks. The largest series is the letterbooks, which contain carbon copies of outgoing letters sent by Rogers & Co., Solicitors. It is not a full set, with letterbooks from 1916–26 and 1928–30 not extant. Other shorter gaps in the sequence also appear. All letterbooks contain an alphabetical surname index of clients. The rest of the collection is more financial in nature, consisting of series of cash ledgers, client account ledgers, cheques issued ledgers, a costs copying volume and a daybook recording daily work for current clients.
Rogers & Co., SolicitorsOffaly Southern Committee GAA Minute Books 1912-1922 and 1923-1927
County Offaly GAA Minutes, 1917-1918
County Offaly GAA Accounts 1909-1936
North Offaly Minute Book 1918-1926
Tullamore GAA Club Minutes 1914-1918, 1918-1920, 1926-1929
Tullamore GAA Club Accounts 1966-1968; 1980
Ledgers and minute book of Offaly Farming and Industrial Society, organisers of the Tullamore Agricultural and Industrial Show.
Offaly Farming and Industrial SocietyAudited statements of accounts, bank books and stocktaking ledgers of North Offaly Co-operative Agricultural Society.
North Offaly Co-operative Agricultural SocietyAccount book, customer a/c, retail and grocery ledgers of McGinn's Bakery, Tullamore.
McGinn's BakeryInventory of silver and electro-plate at Rathrobin taken in 1907 for purposes of insurance by Lt Col. Middleton Westenra Biddulph of Rathrobin, Tullamore. Handwritten volume details household items from Biddulph's residence at Rathrobin House, often noting
the provenance of items e.g. "These were given to Vera on her wedding by Lord & Lady Armstrong".
Towards the end of the volume, there are handwritten notes on the Marsh and Biddulph family pedigree, as well as list of deeds, wills, and marriage settlements kept by Biddulph.
Biddulph, Middleton Westenra, Lt ColResearch papers and field notes of Dr James Lyttleton gathered as part of his doctoral research, which looked at the architecture and settlement of the seventeenth-century Jacobean plantations in Co. Offaly.
The research notes relate to tower houses, fortified houses, dwelling houses, religious sites, castle sites and bawns.
For each building there is an individual file with photographs, a written report, maps and plans, and a field sheet providing details on the existent structures.
Lyttleton, James