Ms letter of Joseph Dwyer Hon. Sec. of Portarlington Lighting Committee, to R. H. Moore in response to enquiries regarding the installation of electric lighting in Portarlington. He writes that the firm of Foote & Milne London had offered to install a plant of they could get 800 households to commit to installing lamps. He notes 'I would advise you to adopt our procedure as you are not putting any expense on the rates except the street lighting'(4pp). With two printed blank forms attached being a householders agreement to install electric lamps in their premises
Portarlington
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Copy rental and particulars of the mansion house, demesne and lands of Emo Park, with the adjacent townlands situated in Portarlington, Queen's County. To be sold in the Court of the Commissioners for the sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland in the matter of the estate of the Right Honorable the Earl of Portarlington, and the Right Honorable George Lionel Dawson Damer. Lands to be sold on 19 and 20 February 1852.
Contains general summary of tenant names, acreage, rent, tithe charges and terms of tenure. Also contains copies of Ordnance Survey 6" maps.