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Lease of part of the lands of Hawkswood from Henry Lord Digby to Daniel Delaney for three lives from 1784, at the yearly rate of £86-10-0. Including 'A map of the lands of Hawkswood in the King's County the Estate of The Right Honourable Henry Lord Digby now in the tenure of Mr Delaney. Surveyed in 1785 by Pat Roe', hand coloured, scale of 40 Perches to an Inch.
Copy of Ordnance Survey sheet 26 map of the Geashill Estate of Baron Digby issued by mapping department of the Irish Land Commission. Areas and plots within Ballydownan are illustrated in pink marker. Scale six inches to one statute mile.
Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating a grant claim for Geashill Castle after its destruction. Includes a copy of the brief for counsel for the claim of £19,614.17 for Geashill Castles and its contents (1923); evaluation of three elk horns destroyed in the fire; letter from Lord Digby to Goodbody Solicitors, Dorset "I must congratulate you once more for the very successful result of your hard work in relation to this claim, and I know what a difficult case it must have been for you to get a satisfactory settlement. I think you ought to know how very please I am over the way the case was conducted" (22 February 1926); letter from the Ministery of Finance details that "under the Malicious Injury Act you are entitle in this case to £1635 in clash, and £1100 in Bonds - total £2735" (19 February 1926).
Introductory report submitted by Trench to Lord Digby, following his arrival on the estate on 1 June 1857. He notes that he spent the first three weeks with his son, T. W. Trench, in Tullamore, and assessed the estate on horseback during this period. Report contains a general sketch of the natural features of the estate; the extent of arable pasture, plantations or bog; the issue of rent collection and methods of valuation; and a survey of the woodlands and their ownership. A post script to the report begins on page 48 and contains further commentary on the state and extent of schooling in the area; use of the Union Workhouse; the levels of pauperism and general notes on the cottier class of tenantry. Also includes a list of current leaseholders on the estate.
Trench sketched scenes from life on the estate over the following pages: Page 6 Sketch of Old Irish Red Deer Page 10 Sketch of Geashill National School Page 20 Sketch of Geashill Village Page 23 Sketch of Derrigunnigan Wood Page 25 Sketch of Tullamore Road Page 27 Diagram of bogland to be drained Page 29 Sketch of Turf Bog Annagharvey depicting two men fighting with sticks. Page 31 Sketch of Red Deer Page 33 Sketch of Killeenmore Moors
Two volumes March 1857- September 1870 and 25 March 1871-29 September 1878, of workhouse accounts for the Borrisokane, Kildysart, Nenagh, Parsonstown, and Roscrea Poor Law Unions.
The account books were put together and kept by Henry Trench due to his involvement with the Poor Law Unions.
File of documents relating to an 1872 attempt to sell Loughton house. Included in this file are an advertisement for sale of the house and a map of the house division of Loughton dated 6 March 1872.
Photographs and negatives taken of Loughton house and the surrounding estate. The majority of the photographs are of the exterior of the house and of horses kept in Loughton. The file includes one negative of the interior, photographs of Theodora Trench, Sheelah Lefroy and Langlois Massy Lefroy playing and walking dogs, work being carried out on the estate and a negative of Benjamin Bloomfield Trench on a horse. The file includes a Christmas card from Buffy [?] sent to Theodora containing a photograph taken in Loughton of Theodora and an unidentified young boy. Also included in the file are six glass plate negatives which show the interior of Borrisnafarney Church, a hunt gathered outside Loughton House and two unknown ladies walking their dogs.
