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Including accounts and purchases, mainly ledgers from the maltings in Banagher

Research on Lisduff House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Tisaran, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: not applicable.
Contains sketches of floor plans and 91 photographs.

Research on Lisclooney House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Tisaran, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 963.
Contains field sheet with sketches of site plan, exterior and interior elevations a written report over 14 pages and 118 photographs.

Research on Lisclooney Castle Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Tisaran, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 922.
Contains a field sheet.
(No photographs included.)

Library Register of Banagher Reading and Recreation Society with list of books held in the library and borrowers register at rear volume.

Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr: the Castle – his youthful recollections of it, extensions to it 1867-72 [see also M/25], a magazine portrait of his way of life there, 1898, and magazine obituaries of him, 1908; an incident which took place on the road between Banagher and Parsonstown and in which the 4th Earl and his party were stopped and temporarily put in gaol by a drunken R.I.C. man, 1868; the Parsonstown Barracks, 1869, 1899 and N.D.; the Parsonstown Town Commission and Commissioners, 1870 and 1885; admissions to the demesne of privileged locals, 1876-1910; and one of the bridges in the Birr Castle demesne, and the Rivers Brosna and Camcor, 1880 and 1896. The correspondents include Gladstone, W.E. Forster and Lords Strathnairn and Roberts. The sub-section also includes a small account book recording local subscriptions to the Parsonstown Defence Association, the Property Defence Association, the legal fund of the Irish Land Committee, and the Field and Rossmore Testimonials, c.1882.

Draft letter from R. H. Moore Banagher to President Cosgrave Leinster House on behalf of Banagher Improvement Committee thanking him for the kind and sympathetic way that he had received a deputation the previous February. Letter goes on to note works completed as a result of the Relief Grant Scheme.

Letter from R. H. Moore to J. M. Hayek Esq. referring to suggestions that may be helpful in arriving at a decision on the suitabilty of Banagher as a location for a Sugar Factory (with copy).