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Copy rental of lands situated in Cloghan King's County to be sold in the Court of the Commissioners for the sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland in the matter of the Right Honourable Charles William, Earl Fitzwilliam, of Wentworth, York. Lands to be sold on 15 April 1853.
Contains general summary of tenant names, acreage, rent, tithe charges and terms of tenure. Also contains copies of Ordnance Survey 6" maps.

Photocopy of the lease of Lady Emily Alfred Howard-Bury to the Trustees for the Conn of the Hundred Battles No351 Branch of the Irish National Foresters Benefit Society for land and premises beside the Market Place and Market Square, Tullamore, known as 'The Shambles'. Terms for 99 years and subject to the yearly rent of £60. Includes map of premises.
Also includes photocopies of architectural drawing of the Foresters Hall, Tullamore prepared by T F McNamara (March 1923).

Copy of conditions of sale, descriptive particulars and sale catalogue for lots of the Rahan Estate, in the barony of Ballycowan, King's County.
The estate is described as "5203 acres, 3 roods, 36 1/2 perches statute measure, and produces a well-paid net annual rental of £1990 6s 4 1/4 d ... The lands are almost entirely in tillage, and although the tenantry are numbers, they are very peaceable, industrious and thriving".
Contains general summary of tenant names, acreage, rent, tithe charges and terms of tenure. Also contains copies of Ordnance Survey 6" maps.

Copy of private account and stock book of Catherine Finlay and Elizabeth Patterson, Edenderry.

Account lists stock in trade, includes; bread soda, whole ginger, pearl barley, whole pepper, caraway seeds, liquorice stick, spices, herbs, paper supplies, cocoa, French brandy, whiskey cordials, logwood. Profits calculated and divided equally between the partners.

Volume of drawings and specifications of pattern articles to be adapted in War Department works and buildings. Issued to Birr Barracks.

Copies of outgoing letters from John V. Brown, clerk of Parsonstown Union to various recipients, particularly the Poor Law Commissioners, detailing reliefs and works. Also includes copy outgoing correspondence relating to assisted emigration schemes for inmates of the Parsonstown workhouse during the course of the Great Famine.

Catalogue of books in the possession of Rt. Hon. Charles William, Lord Tullamore and bundle of incoming correspondence.

Documents relating to aspects of Moore's life in Banagher. Moore was involved in many committees in the town. These fall into two categories in this collection, namely improvements to the local economy and infrastructure and those that responded to outside events such as the First and Second World Wars. The improvement committees were Banagher Improvement Association/Committee (c.1899-1928), Banagher Fairs and Improvement Committee (1907-1928), Banagher Public Lighting Committee (1907-1912) and Banagher and Lusmagh Farmers Association (1929-1930). The other committees responded to WWI and WWII were The Garrycastle Relief Committee (1914-1915), the War and Pensions Committee (1917-1919) and the Parish Council (1941-c.1945).

Some other organisations mentioned are the Banagher Bicycle Association, the Gaelic League and the Banagher Sacred Heart Sodality which all proved extremely popular.

Correspondence (1963-70), mainly between Swayne and W. H. Milner, Portarlington, relating to a film made by Fr. Kennedy in 1921 ostensibly on the turf-cutting industry in the area, but also features the exhumation of skulls of the ‘Ballynowlart Martyrs’ who were purportedly burned alive in Ballynowlart church by English forces in the 1600s. Correspondence culminates in the deposit of the film in the National Library of Ireland.

Offaly Sinn Féin material: original resolution from North and South Offaly Executive Sinn Féin signed by Comd. Ua Duinn relating to its support of the Treaty (29 December 1921) and calling on Offaly’s representative Dr McCartan to vote for ratification, and a pamphlet entitled 'Terms of Reference 23 May 1922 Adjourned Árd-Fheis of Sinn Féin'.

Leaflets and other printed material relating to Croghan Feis organised by Offaly Vocational Education Committee (1949).
Manuscripts notes on placenames and history of Killeigh Parish and Philipstown (Daingean).

Publications: Programme for Walsh Island Second National Turf-cutting competition (1935); Knockbeg Centenary Year Book (1948); and Suncroft, a Parish Magazine (1970).

Public notice of Rev. William Robert Trench, market authority and patentee of the fairs of the town of Banagher. States that all horses brought to the fair shall be sold between the entrance gate of Major Armstrong's residence at Claremount and the Bridge of Banagher.
Printed at the King's County Chronicle Office, Birr.