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- 1865-1875; 1883-1897; 1897-1903
Minutes of Parsonstown Town Commissioners, recording the proceedings and decisions made at monthly meetings, special meetings and financial meetings.
Minutes of Parsonstown Town Commissioners, recording the proceedings and decisions made at monthly meetings, special meetings and financial meetings.
Records of Parsonstown Town Commissioners
4 Minute Books -
PTC40/1/1: July 1865 - June 1875 (note: includes Burial Board affairs).
PTC40/1/2: October 1883 - February 1890
PTC40/1/3: March 1890 - February 1897
PTC40/1/4: April 1897 - August 1899 and August 1899 - June 1903 (note: abstract only. Manuscript volume in private hands and loaned for abstracting purposes in 1989).
Parsonstown Burial Board
1 Minute Book -
PTC40/2: 7 June 1869 - 6 March 1871 and 7 April 1873 - 4 October 1897 (1 volume, including abstract).
1 Drawing -
PTC40/3: 11 June 1855, drawing designs for lowering Oxmantown Bridge, drawn by John Hill, Tullamore.
1 Accounts Book -
PTC40/4: 1879 - 1925
1 Pamphlet
PTC40/5: Bye Laws of the Town of Parsonstown made under the Public Health (Ireland) Act (1884)
Parsonstown Town Commissioners
97 Minute Books
55 Rough Minute Books
1 Repayment of Relief Book
1 Rent Book
1 Document relating to the King's County Directory
1 Lease
3 Workhouse Registers
2 Financial Minute Books
1 Dispensary District Ledger
Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union
Parsonstown Union Outgoing Letter-book
Copies of outgoing letters from John V. Brown, clerk of Parsonstown Union to various recipients, particularly the Poor Law Commissioners, detailing reliefs and works. Also includes copy outgoing correspondence relating to assisted emigration schemes for inmates of the Parsonstown workhouse during the course of the Great Famine.
Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union
Correspondence 4th Earl and Lord Mayo
Part of The Rosse Papers
Letters to the 4th Earl from the Chief Secretary, Lord Mayo, and others about representative peerage elections, including that of the 4th Earl himself.
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr
Part of The Rosse Papers
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.
Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Printed Griffith’s Valuation of the Union of Parsonstown
Part of The Rosse Papers
Printed Griffith’s Valuation of the Union of Parsonstown.
Parsonstown Inner estate: tenants’ accounts’
Part of The Rosse Papers
Thick folio volume titled ‘Parsonstown [ie inner estate]: tenants’ accounts’, [including details of tenures and therefore possessing elements of a leasebook [see Q/16].
Rental of the ‘Inner estate’ [Parsonstown and the immediately outlying townlands]
Part of The Rosse Papers
Rental of the ‘Inner estate’ [Parsonstown and the immediately outlying townlands], with a half-yearly rental of £4,500.
Leases of ‘the Fair Green’, ‘the Factory Field’ and other premises and parks
Part of The Rosse Papers
Half-box of leases of ‘the Fair Green’, ‘the Factory Field’ and other premises and parks described as being bounded on one side by ‘the new road from Parsonstown to Frankford’.