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Deeds and correspondence relating to the Abbeylands (part of Millbrook)

Letter from P Glyn Griffiths of the Medical Students' Representative Council at University of Manchester, to Doctor Francis William Lamb at Woodfield House, Clara, County Offaly. He thanks Doctor Lamb for his help in securing a guest lecture by Oliver St John Gogarty at the Medical School at the University of Manchester in the following term.

97 Minute Books -
BG164/1/1-97: June 1839 - August 1921
(Note: name changes to Birr Union after January 1900).

Postcard with the image of Bridge Street, Clara, County Offaly, on the front.

Annual report addressed to the 11th Baron Digby following the death of his predecessor. Goodbody reports that £7000 has been remitted and briefs the new Lord Digby on the state of Ireland during the War of Independence: 'Ireland continues in a disturbed and unsatisfactory condition. This neighbourhood has not escaped the general destruction of Constabulary barracks, the only three barracks on your estate having been maliciously and wantonly burnt and wrecked, those of Clonmore being wholly destroyed and of Geashill & Killeigh partially so. The police authorities having vacated them prior to their destruction have since surrendered same, with a consequent loss of future rental. Claims for compensation have been lodged for substantial amounts and are still pending.'

Reply from one of his cardinals granting a privileged altar to St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Tullamore, Ireland.

Presentment or 'Jobs' books belonging to James Franck Rolleston, Franckfort Castle, Dunkerrin, King's County. Complete for the years 1830 -1868, except for 1863, 1864 and 1865.

Material relating to the Bloomfield family and their time at Loughton. The Bloomfield family owned Loughton from 1828 until 1870.

Photograph (top) of a map of the lands of Gurteen, Woodfield, and Ballinamentin, created in 1716 for the Fuller family. The original map remains in possession of the Lamb family. Photograph (bottom) of Woodfield House, taken in the year 1900.

Papers of William Lamb, inherited by his son Francis William Lamb and kept at Woodfield House.