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Annual report, accounts and rental for year ending June 1883, describing a considerable improvement in the financial situation with a large drop in arrears outstanding due to the Arrears Act of 1882. Reports that abandoned and boycotted farms now account for 850 statute acres of land in Lord Digby's hands set for temporary grazing and necessitating the purchase of cattle. Also reports that despite a decrease in the net rental due to the action of the Land Commission Courts and voluntary reduction of rents, it was possible to remit profits of £11,500. No land improvements or works were carried out, but 50 acres of replanting was carried out at Derrygunnigan Wood, River Wood at Clonad and Derrygolan.

Describes a general improvement in the condition of the estate and attributes the cessation of agitation to the Prevention of Crimes Act brought in following the Phoenix Park murders in spring 1882.

Annual report and rental for year end June 1867, containing reports on the continuously improving financial situation of the estate, due mainly to the increase in rental receipts. Also reports on drainage at Ballyknockan and the remarkable effect of Dublin dairy manure has had on the land in this area. Other farming improvements include the invention and introduction by Trench of a new drainage plough which was given special merit by the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland. Further farm machinery was also purchased such as a mowing machine and a hay-tedder which were hired out by the farmers of the estate.

Reports that building and slating has increased all over the estate and provides a description of various building repairs and a newly-built farmhouse let to the Commons family - 'one of the oldest and most respectable families on the estate.' Also reports that four new labourers' cottages built in Killeigh for people whose houses were in ruins, were awarded the Gold Medal and Challenge Cup by the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland. Also refers to the sale of timber to the Great Southern & Western Railway, which allowed for a large portion of Derryclure to be thinned of beech and replanted with larch and oak, and also necessitated the purchase of a weighing machine for timber to avoid the tolls of the weighbridge in Tullamore.

Referring to past agrarian outrages, Trench remarks that the tone on the estate is 'excellent' and 'it is as if Fenianism never existed'.

Lease of part of the lands of Knockballyboy from Edward Earl Digby to Bernard Dunne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £23-8-3.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Knockballyboy in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1825', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Denis Dunn, Mick Scully, Owen Scully, Mr Mason and Reverend Sadler.

Lease of part of the lands of Ballycue from Edward Earl Digby to Mathew Commens for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £8-5-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Ballycue in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1824', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to James Dunne, widow Hacket, Daniel Commons and Mrs Digby.

Lease of part of the lands of Knock [Knockballyboy] from Edward Earl Digby to Patt Byrne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £16-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Knock in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to the Scully’s, Patt Flood, Conner Byrne and the Conner’s.

Lease of part of the lands of Knock [Knockballyboy] from Edward Earl Digby to Catherine Byrne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £11-12-6.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Knock in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1824', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Pat Ennis, Widow Byrne, Pat Byrne and Pat Flood.

Lease of part of the lands of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to Margaret Byrne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £10-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Gurteen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Martin Keane and Thomas Nolan.

Lease of part of the lands of Killenmore [Killeenmore] from Edward Earl Digby to Thomas Carroll for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £9-9-0.
Including 'A map of part of Killinmore in the King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Containing 13.2.0 plantation measure laid down in 1792 by Michael Cuddehy’, hand coloured, with bordering land leased to William Kinch and James Dunn, plot of land for lease in tenure of widow Bridget Carroll.

Lease of part of the lands of Ballycue from Edward Earl Digby to Daniel Commons for one life, or 31 years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £17-10-0.

Lease of part of the lands of Ballydownan from Edward Earl Digby to William Geoghan for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £7-12-6.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Ballydownan in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to George Wilson, Thomas Smith and James Keating.