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Receivable order from Irish Land Commission for John Watson, folio number 6130, showing the payment of 5 instalments for lands of the Digby estate at Clonad. Attached is a handwritten note about folio 6130, with observations on the management of the bog following the death of Edward Henry Trafalgar Baron Digby.

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

Copy of Ordnance Survey sheet 24 map of the Digby Estate issued by mapping department of the Irish Land Commission. Map
shows the holdings of tenant, Eliza Dunne in the townland of Killurin.
Scale - six inches to one statute mile.

Letter from Hoey & Denning Solicitors enclosing a form from the Land Law Acts for the tenancy of Jospeh Brophy, Gurteen specifiying the area, rent of holding and tenement valuation.

Annual report submitted by Lewis Goodbody, agent, to Lord Digby, in which he presents a detailed set of accounts and remits £5481 in rental income for Digby's properties in King's County and Rosekeen in Queen's County. Also references the burning of Geashill Castle on 16 August 1922 and that a claim for £15,000 has been lodged against the County and the Provisional Government.

Copy of Ordnance Survey sheet 26 map of the Geashill Estate of Baron Digby issued by mapping department of the Irish Land Commission. Taken from 1913 edition of Ordnance Survey.
Areas and plots surrounding Geashill Castle are illustrated in pink marker.

Copy of Ordnance Survey sheet 26 map of the Geashill Estate of Baron Digby issued by mapping department of the Irish Land Commission. Areas and plots within Ballydownan are illustrated in pink marker.
Scale six inches to one statute mile.

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.'

Soft bound minute book of the King’s County Infirmary board of management meetings. Minutes consist of an overview of tenders for supplies, statements of account and building repairs and maintenance. Records decisions regarding the hiring and managing of staff, fees for patients, and transcription of correspondence. The board were often concerned with funding, establishing an ‘Improvement Fund Collection’, received funds from the Tuberculosis Scheme Grant and through Lady Rosse (later, Viscountess de Vesci) petitioned for a grant from the Joint War Committee for the hospital which they received in August 1920.

Meetings between January and August 1921 discuss the possible and eventual closure of the County Infirmary and the amalgamation of the institution with the Central Hospital which was formally the Union Hospital.

Prominent members of board include, Rev. W Phelan (Chairman June 1921), Rev J. Flynn (Vice-Chairman June 1921), R.S. Craig, Rev PJ Egan, Rev Philip Callery, J.M Russell, J.A Lumley, and Rev John Humphries.

It was noted in October 1920, that Fr Thomas Burbage, a noted Republican and a member of the Board had a lucky escape after being shot at by the military on his journey between Tullamore and Geashill by motor bicycle.

Report for year ending June 1919 outlining a remittance of £10,250 to Lord Digby, the increased amount being ascribed to revenue derived from the woods, particularly mature Scotch pine from Clonad Wood to a firm of match-makers. Remarks that although Ireland ‘remains in a disturbed an unsatisfactory condition this immediate neighbourhood has been very free from agitation and outrage and from a continuance of high prices for all agricultural produce and abundant crops, the Irish farmer is enjoying an era of unprecedented prosperity.’