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.
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).
Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a photograph of Neil Francis McDermott and his wife Barbara McDermott. Photo originally taken in 1952.
Lamb FamilyPhotocopy of a photograph of Theodore Cronhelm Tobias.
Lamb FamilyPhotocopy of five pages from the, "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica", edited by W Bruce Bannerman, of an extract from the diary of Abraham Fuller.
Photocopy of charge sheet relating to the twelve men arrested following the Tullamore Incident, the first on the list being James (Séamus) O'Brennan.
Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of four photographs of women in the Smith family. Includes photographs of sisters Anna Marguerite Smith and Doctor Mabel Marion Brillinger as young women and later as professionals.
Lamb FamilyPhotocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a letter from Eileen Muriel Tobias at 2 Eglington Park, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, to her sister Anna Marguerite Smith. She sends an update about the activities of her children, grand-children, and great-grandchildren.
Lamb FamilyPhotocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a letter from Eileen Muriel Tobias at 2 Eglinton Park, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, to her sister Mabel Smith. She writes of her recent drive through County Meath and seeing the excavation in Dowth and New Grange, and her stop in Monasterboice to see the stone high-cross there. She also includes an update on the activities of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Lamb FamilyPhotocopy of Loughton guest book.
The guest book contains a brief history of the house and of the Trench and Atkinson families possibly written by Theodora Trench and completed by Guy Atkinson after her death.
'Loughton was built in 1777. The library was the dinning room & the hall the dining room, the entrance was on the north side, where the present straircase is. Lord Bloomfield added the present drawing and dinning room & improved the place about 1835.
Loughton is said to have belonged to the Peppers from Cromwell's time till 1828, when Thomas Ryder Pepper was killed out hunting, aged about 50. He had neither brother nor child, he was married to Miss Bloomfield & left a request in his will, that his brother-in-law Lord Bloomfield should buy Loughton for a certain sum which he did. The 2nd Lord Bloomfield sold Loughton to his brother-in-law, Mr Trench of Cangort Park in 1870. W T. Trench lived at Loughton 1877 till 1889. B.B.T & D.T first went there in 1890, & bought it in 1893. DT died in 1898 and BBT in 1926. Thora Trench lived on here until joined by her sister Sheelah in 1961. Thora died in 1971 and Sheelah in 1973. Guy Atkinson inherited Loughton in 1970 and it was looked after his parents Anthony and Anne until he moved here in 1975.'