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Rent and rates book between Lord Digby and Mr Foy for lands in Killeigh.

Letter from tenant of the Digby Estate, Patrick D Crowley, to Lord Digby requesting repairs to a staircase to a rental property in Killeigh.

Lease of part of the lands of Killeigh from Edward Earl Digby to Jane Malony for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £4-0-0.

Lease of part of the lands of Killeigh from Edward Earl Digby to Willaim Owen Handy Esq. for two lives, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Killeigh in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Richard Hargrove.

Lease of part of the lands of Killeigh from Edward Earl Digby to Michael Malone for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £100-0-0.
Including a letter from Lord Digby accompanying the sending of the deed to Furlong and Son.

Lease of part of the lands of Pigeon House [Pigeonhouse] from Edward Earl Digby to (Kitty) Catherine Flanagan for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £6-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Pigeon House in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Mary Flanagan, John Flanagan and Barry Tarleton.
Also 'A map of part of the lands of Killeigh and of the Pigeon House in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 10 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Richard Hargrove, Mrs Malony, Harry Skerrit, Mr Ryan, Patrick Kenny, Mr Lorant, John W. Tarleton and Barry Tarleton, note 'This map was made before the present lease and that in the reason that Ballinvally and Scrubb Wood, [...] demand by this lease, are not [...] on this map.'

Lease of part of the lands of Killeigh from Edward Earl Digby to Richard Hargrave for three lives, or thirty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £190-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Killeigh in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Mr Sandys, John Weldon Tarleton and John Conroy.

Lease of part of the land of Killeigh Pigeonhouse, Ballinvally and Scrubb Wood from Edward Earl Digby to Michael Conroy for three lives or 31 years at a yearly rent of £157-3-7.

Lease of part of the land of Killeigh from Edward Earl Digby to Robert Weldon Tarleton for three lives or 31 years at a yearly rent of £80-6-2.

Annual report addressed to the 11th Baron Digby following the death of his predecessor. Goodbody reports that £7000 has been remitted and briefs the new Lord Digby on the state of Ireland during the War of Independence: 'Ireland continues in a disturbed and unsatisfactory condition. This neighbourhood has not escaped the general destruction of Constabulary barracks, the only three barracks on your estate having been maliciously and wantonly burnt and wrecked, those of Clonmore being wholly destroyed and of Geashill & Killeigh partially so. The police authorities having vacated them prior to their destruction have since surrendered same, with a consequent loss of future rental. Claims for compensation have been lodged for substantial amounts and are still pending.'