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Letters and papers, mostly of the 4th and 5th Earls and Dr Otto Boeddicker, concerning Parsons family history and genealogy, including information about the Oxmantown/Phoenix Park property, sold by the elder branch of the Parsons family to the crown in 1672. Of particular interest is a paper entitled ‘How the Parsons, Earls of Rosse, got the Titles of Baron and Viscount of Oxmantown’.

Box of conacre, grazing, weekly, monthly, yearly or caretaker proposals/agreements.

Box of conacre, grazing, weekly, monthly, yearly or caretaker proposals/agreements.

Original bundle of applications/ recommendations for the post of head gardener at Birr (Andrew Hume being the successful applicant).

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.

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.

Leases of premises in Pound Street.

Minutes of Parsonstown Town Commissioners, recording the proceedings and decisions made at monthly meetings, special meetings and financial meetings.

Leases of premises in Wilmer Road and Wilmer Terrace. This sub-section also includes papers relating to the sale of properties in Wilmer Terrace to Ann Ritchie and other purchasers.

Envelope of leases of premises in Mellsop Street, the last of them stating that it is now known as Townsend Street. [In date order.] The envelope also includes papers relating to the sale of Townsend Street fee farm grants to Michael Kearns
and Gerard and Evelyn Bell.