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Research on the Town Park House - Birr Castle, Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 967. Contains field sheet with a sketch of site plan (after Birr Town Council Development Plan 1990), a written report over two pages and 117 photographs.
Research on the Townpark House, Brendan Street - Market Square, Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 941. Contains field sheet and 10 photographs.
Research on the Townpark House, Fayle's Lane Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 941. Contains field sheet and 12 photographs.
Research on Townparks Church and Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 696. Contains field sheet with sketches of floor plans and 107 photographs.
Research on Townparks - Birr Town, Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: not applicable. Contains field sheet and 29 photographs.
Four envelopes of tradesmen’s accounts to the 5th Earl, including a few to Lady Rosse, from London, Dublin and Birr tradesmen (primarily the first) for all manner of goods (among them a pendant brooch supplied by C. Faberge, 1910), but excluding accounts for major items connected with Birr Castle and gardens [for which see M/25 and 33 respectively], 1910-18; together with 7 volumes of Birr Castle house-keeping books kept by Lady Rosse/de Vesci and (in one case) her sister, Countess de la Feld, 1910-30. [See also T/30. Not in chronological order.]
Box containing bundles of weekly returns of income and expenditure (mainly on labour) for Birr Castle, gardens, pleasure grounds, forestry, farm, etc, [sampled from a vast quantity of similar material in order to show how the accounting system then in operation worked.]