Commissions of the peace for Lord Oxmantown
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- 1864-1868
Part of The Rosse Papers
King’s County and Co. Tipperary commissions of the peace for Lord Oxmantown, subsequently the 4th Earl.
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Commissions of the peace for Lord Oxmantown
Part of The Rosse Papers
King’s County and Co. Tipperary commissions of the peace for Lord Oxmantown, subsequently the 4th Earl.
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Correspondence 4th Earl and Lord Mayo
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Letters to the 4th Earl from the Chief Secretary, Lord Mayo, and others about representative peerage elections, including that of the 4th Earl himself.
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Applications/ recommendations for the post of head gardener at Birr
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Original bundle of applications/ recommendations for the post of head gardener at Birr (Andrew Hume being the successful applicant).
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
General political and patronage correspondence of the fourth and fifth earls
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Includes letters about Disestablishment, Poor Law reform, Orangeism, Conservative registration, Home Rule and the Irish Land question. Also includes letter from M. McCormack, CC, Kinnitty to Lord Rosse concerning agrarian dispute in Kinnitty parish between Francis Foley and Delaney at Newtown (3 March 1911).
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Correspondence and maps concerning Lisheen military rifle range
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Correspondence and maps concerning Lisheen military rifle range, beside the 4th Earl’s property at Clonoghill, on the outskirts of Birr.
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr
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Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr: the Castle – his youthful recollections of it, extensions to it 1867-72 [see also M/25], a magazine portrait of his way of life there, 1898, and magazine obituaries of him, 1908; an incident which took place on the road between Banagher and Parsonstown and in which the 4th Earl and his party were stopped and temporarily put in gaol by a drunken R.I.C. man, 1868; the Parsonstown Barracks, 1869, 1899 and N.D.; the Parsonstown Town Commission and Commissioners, 1870 and 1885; admissions to the demesne of privileged locals, 1876-1910; and one of the bridges in the Birr Castle demesne, and the Rivers Brosna and Camcor, 1880 and 1896. The correspondents include Gladstone, W.E. Forster and Lords Strathnairn and Roberts. The sub-section also includes a small account book recording local subscriptions to the Parsonstown Defence Association, the Property Defence Association, the legal fund of the Irish Land Committee, and the Field and Rossmore Testimonials, c.1882.
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers, mostly of the 4th and 5th Earls and Dr Otto Boeddicker
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Letters and papers, mostly of the 4th and 5th Earls and Dr Otto Boeddicker, concerning Parsons family history and genealogy, including information about the Oxmantown/Phoenix Park property, sold by the elder branch of the Parsons family to the crown in 1672. Of particular interest is a paper entitled ‘How the Parsons, Earls of Rosse, got the Titles of Baron and Viscount of Oxmantown’.
Boeddicker, Dr Otto
Correspondence and papers of the 4th Earl concerning sewage disposal
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Original bundle of letters and papers of the 4th Earl about sewage disposal at Birr, by turbine and sundry other methods; the correspondents include Bindon B. Stoney [see K/24. Not in chronological order.]
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers concerning the 4th Earl’s patents for inventions and experiments
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Original bundle of letters and papers concerning the 4th Earl’s patents for a machine which he had invented for removing leaves and other matter from turbines, 1901-4; together with notes on his experiments with electro-plating, 1908. [Not in chronological order.]
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Papers of the 4th and 5th Earls concerning Birr Castle
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Letters, tradesmen’s accounts, inventories of plate, specifications, tender and other papers of the 4th and 5th Earls, all concerning the contents of Birr Castle or improvements and alterations to Birr Castle and demesne and
to houses and cottages owned by the estate – the installation of motors and turbines, plumbing, lighting, heating, redecorating, ‘hacking off’ plaster-work, etc. [Not in chronological order. For other inventories of plate, etc, see H/8 and T/83.]
Parsons, William, 5th Earl of Rosse