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Papers of Francis William Lamb, which remained at his residence Woodfield House and were inherited along with the property by his eldest son Reverend Adam Lamb.

Materials created by Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston.

Papers of Constance Lamb which remained at her residence, Woodfield House, and were inherited along with the property by her eldest son Reverend Adam Lamb.

Materials created by Alice Ann Lamb.

Correspondence and other papers of the 4th and 5th Earls of Rosse on subjects other than astronomy, including estate and other King’s County affairs, the 4th Earl’s contributions to public life as a representative peer, Chancellor of T.C.D., etc, etc.

Letters, 1791-1834, to Sir Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse, from his principal correspondents, on all manner of personal, political and business matters, arranged chronologically according to the date of the first item in each sub-section.

Letters and papers, 1765-c. 1820 and 1855, of Sir Laurence Parsons, 5th Baronet, who succeeded in 1807 as 2nd Earl of Rosse (of the second creation, the earldom in the elder branch of the Parsons family having died out in 1764), reflecting Parsons's youthful intimacy with Henry Flood, and consisting of correspondence and speech-notes of Flood, letters to Parsons from and about Flood, and drafts for biographical and historical writings by Parsons on Flood.

Letters and papers, 1791-1841, of Sir Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse, including (during his lifetime) papers of his first and second sons, Lord Oxmantown and the Hon. John Clere Parsons, arranged by topic, and chronologically according to the date of the first item in each sub-section.

Envelope of papers about the bogs on the estate. [See also Q/18.]

Papers about Birr Church of Ireland church and parish, including historical compilations of the rev. Dr Samuel Hemphill, Rector of Birr, covering the period 1612-1903. The compilations consist of a small quarto notebook containing MS. Copies of 1642 depositions concerning the neighbourhood of Birr; another containing a history of Birr Church of Ireland church (taken from vestry books, parish registers, etc), 1760-1903); and two succession lists of Birr incumbents, 1612-1912. The sub-section also includes a series of printed annual reports on the parish and on the diocese of Killaloe and Kilfenora, 1900-10.