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Typewritten letter from Daniel Hogan T. D. requesting a list of any undeveloped bogs in Banagher Parish.

Form issued by the Department of Supplies (Turf) to Banagher Parish Council regarding quantities of turf cut and reserved in Banagher.

Undated report of Sean Hynes identifying the hydrants and pipes in Banagher.

Softbound copybook Minutes of Banagher Coal Fund Committee.
Fist meeting was 10th February 1895.
Lists persons donating to fund. Lists also persons in receipt of money to buy coal and turf.
Money is also voted to provide blankets for the Poor (18th February (1895). Includes 'blanket list' 27th February 1895 and pages of accounts of Banagher Relief fund at rear vol. Accounts audited.

Rules of the Banagher Reading and Recreation Society. Ms list of 18 rules governing the constitution and management of a reading room and lending Library at Banagher. States that the 'objects of the society shall to be to promote a taste for reading good and useful literature to encourage mutual improvements and good fellowship among the members'.

Library Register of Banagher Reading and Recreation Society with list of books held in the library and borrowers register at rear volume.

Leaflet of Banagher Dramatic Class advertising a performance of a play entitled 'The Down Express' on Friday 18th December 1931.

Undated printed notice of Banagher Bicycle and Athletic Club stating that the annual sports have been fixed for Tuesday 17th July and requesting patronage and support.

Printed 'Rules of the Banagher Bicycle & Athletic Club' for season 1900-1901 in booklet form. States that the object and aim of the club is to promote cycling and other healthy outdoor exercises including the game of handball.

Newspaper cuttings relating to the protests of the tenantry of Lady Emily Howard Bury, following her serving writs on them. The tenants on the estate at Croghan sought an abatement in their rents, “they having solicited [for same] in the humblest manner”. The Rhode and Croghan branch of the Land League now pledge to fight to the end “thereby showing Lady E. Bury, her agent and the country, what [they] think of an act which [they] have no hesitation in denouncing as unwarranted and unjust”.
Includes an observation that previous to the Land League agitation, the tenants were quite satisfied with their rents “and regarded the Bury family as model landlords”. Includes death of Margaret Tracey, a tenant on the Croghan estate, who had already been issued with a decree against her concerning shop provisions, and who dropped dead when rushing out to intercept a sheriff, whom she mistakenly thought was about to seize her cattle.