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Scrapbook created by Charlotte Jane Shaw, which came to her as a gift from her son George Bernard Johnston in November 1864. Contains photographs, newspaper clipping, art, poetry, and publications of her family and friends.
Small book which contains clippings of obituaries and marriage announcements. The obituaries consist of: George Hearn; Frances Wilhamina Hearn; Anthony Blackburne JP; Susan Maria; Moore; James Lewis Hearn; William Edward Hearn; Juliet Margaret Fleming Hearn; Charles James Costello; Elizabeth Mary Adelaide Hearn; Ellen MacGeoghegan Henderson; Reverend George Jones; Catherine L Jones; John Carpenter Jones; Bessie Pomeroy Jones; Catherine Nicholson; Richard Holmes Hearn; James Daniel Hearn; Dudley Hill Jameson. Also contains the wedding announcements of: Thomas D Costello and Mary Louisa MacDonough; Surgeon Captain Horace Cocks and Kathleen Mary Fox; James Priestly JP and Nannie Colley Jones; Alfred P Welsh and Edith Anna Olivia Ida Hearn.
Bound volume containing book stamp of the Grand Jury Secretary's Office, Parsonstown (Birr), containing an abstract of presentments granted and queries respited and discharged at the Summer Assizes, 1893. Thomas Mitchell of Birr is listed as the grand jury's secretary.
Volume containing abstracts of presentments granted and queries respited and discharged at the Lent Assizes, 28 February to 8 March 1899, the final meeting of the Grand Jury for the discharge of fiscal business, the county councils having been established under the Local Government Act of 1898. Full colour map of new county council districts is missing from this volume.
Research papers and field notes of Dr James Lyttleton gathered as part of his doctoral research, which looked at the architecture and settlement of the seventeenth-century Jacobean plantations in Co. Offaly.
The research notes relate to tower houses, fortified houses, dwelling houses, religious sites, castle sites and bawns.
For each building there is an individual file with photographs, a written report, maps and plans, and a field sheet providing details on the existent structures.
Research on Ballinlough Tower House and Bawn, Co. Offaly (Parish of Borrisnafarney, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 824. Contains field sheet with details to level of preservation, nature of surviving structures, walls, earthworks, nearby waterways and woodland, cartographic evidence. Incl. sketches of the site, a written report over eight pages and 54 photographs. Also seven torn out notebook pages with handwritten notes and rough sketches.
Research on Ballybritt Tower House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Aghancon, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 825. Contains field sheet with sketches of the site, a written report over two pages and seven photographs.
Research on Ballydrohid Tower House, Co. Offaly also known as 'Srah Castle' (Parish of Kilbride, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 827. Contains field sheet with sketches of the site, a written report over ten pages and 65 photographs.
