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Box of leases of premises in Castle Street, including a lease and counterpart lease of ‘Crotty’s Church’, 1837 [see E/11], and papers relating to the sale of a Castle Street fee farm grant to the personal representatives of Claude Corcoran. The box also includes a large folder of correspondence about the Birr Trustee Company’s proposed purchase of Spinner’s Bistro in Castle Street, which was eventually bought by another party.
Envelope of leases of premises which are described as being near the old bridge, near the old gaol (alias ‘house of correction’) or in Old Bridge Street. [In date order.] The envelope also includes papers relating to the sale of property in Bridge Street to Mary Dunne.
Envelope of leases of premises in Moore Park or Moorpark Street. [In date order.] The envelope also includes a file relating to the sale of property in Moorpark Street to Mary Dunne.
Leases of premises in Graveyard Street, which in the lease of 1857 is described as having been re-named ‘High Street’, [though this name did not stick. In date order.]
Envelope of leases of premises in or near Mill Lane. The envelope also includes papers relating to the sale of a Mill Lane fee farm grant to John Harte.
Envelope of leases of premises in Brendan Street, [formerly Kennedy’s Lane], and Market Square. The envelope also includes papers relating to the sale of properties in Brendan Street and Market Square to the Electricity Supply Board and various other purchasers.
Envelope of leases of premises in Langton’s Lane and other premises bearing the name Langton, [which seem to have been in the vicinity of Chapel Lane and Back Lane]. The Langton who was extant in the 1790s was a Philip Langton of Trinidad, [but clearly the family were major Birr tenants of the Parsonses, some of whose leases were probably reacquired by the 2nd Earl of Rosse, who seems to have been active in buying out long and perpetuity leases in the town – presumably in connection with his building plans.]
