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Register contains name of patient, age, number in register for the year, residence, recommending governor, particulars of case, date, and prescriptions or treatment. Also includes an index at the back of the volume organised by date which refers to the name and number of the patient admitted. Occasionally it was noted if the person admitted was a paying patient to the institution.

Oversized printed broadsheet of the annual report from the King’s County Infirmary for the year 1896-1897. Gives an overview of the charges of the infirmary which include the annual subscriptions, grants, donations, and the annual income received from pay patients; and the discharges for the year which includes sundry expenses such as food, fuel, salaries, and repairs. Contains a report of patients admitted and discharged for the year. Also provides a list of the life governors of the infirmary (the Earl of Rosse, the Lord Digby, John G King, Rev Hugh Behan PP), the governors ex-officio, the Rev Graham Craig, and a list of governors and their annual subscriptions.

Oversized printed broadsheet of the annual report from the King’s County Infirmary for the year 1897-1898. Gives an overview of the charges of the infirmary which include the annual subscriptions, grants, donations, and the annual income received from pay patients; and the discharges for the year which includes sundry expenses such as food, fuel, salaries, and repairs. Contains a report of patients admitted and discharged for the year. Also provides a list of the life governors of the infirmary (the Earl of Rosse, the Lord Digby, John G King, Rev Hugh Behan PP), the governors ex-officio, the Rev Graham Craig, and a list of governors and their annual subscriptions.

Only 10 minute books survive as records of Edenderry Union covering the years 1879-1919, with many large gaps. There are no extant workhouse registers, registers of deaths, workhouse ledgers, outdoor relief registers, or registers of accounts.

A further known minute book from 1895, which was rescued from the workhouse following its demolition in 1976 and is now in private hands, has been transcribed by Dr Ciaran Reilly in an article ‘The minute book of Edenderry Poor Law Union, 1895’ in Offaly Heritage, Vol. 7 (Tullamore, 2013)

The minutes contain the proceedings of the meetings of the boards of guardians and contain reports from the clerk of the union, the master of the workhouse, the sanitary officers and others.

Typescript of memoir titled ‘Do You Remember’. Recounts the life in Birr and covers the following subjects: soldiers from Birr returning from World War I (1918), the Treaty (1921), occupation of Free State Troops of ‘The Gorm' (the workhouse) in Birr (1922), burning of Crinkle Barracks (1922) and other reminiscences of life in Birr from 1930s to 1980s.

Containing Form 32 a - Revenue Account showing receipts and expenditure with a statement of the balances of the rural district council.

Permission notes issued by Sergeant H. W. Crane, The Barracks, Tullamore, to Joseph Larkin, Francis Slattery and J. M. O'Brennan, granting them the right to play handball in Barrack Alley on weekdays. Also includes a cover note from Crane to O'Brennan regretting that he cannot extend to permission to to play on Sundays.

Annotated copy of the charge sheet relating to the twelve men arrested following the Tullamore Incident.