The Loughton papers are comprised of the records of the successive owners of Loughton, Moneygall, Co. Offaly and of other properties in the surrounding area including one in Co. Tipperary. The families documented within the fonds are the Bloomfields, the Trenches and the Atkinsons. The fonds mainly consists of documents originating from Benjamin Bloomfield Trench, his wife Dora Trench (neé Turnor) and their daughter Theodora Trench. The material dates from 1798 until the 1970s.

Deed appointing William Thomas Trench, of Loughton, Moneygall, King's County, a commissioner of the peace. Signed by R. W. A Holmes, Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper.

Envelope of leases and deed of conveyance of Bruckera, Brockerybeg, Cushnavanlagh, Gortgreen and Ardgoga [see Q/21. In date order.]

Envelope of leases of the Shinrone estate (Shinrone, Cloughmoyle, Manure, etc) owned jointly by the 2nd Earl of Rosse and the Lloyd family of Gloster. Leases of this property seem to have continued to be made jointly, in spite
of the partition effected in 1806 [see E/37. In date order.]

‘W’ and ‘’Y’ - principally Edward Walsh (town clerk of Birr, who writes about all manner of local government matters), Harold J. Wiley & Co., insurance brokers of Dublin (who write about Birr Castle insurance), Mrs F. White Spunner of Milltown Park, Shinrone, King’s County (whose estate Garvey managed [although, apart from these letters, no other record of this agency survives in the archive at Birr Castle]).

Includes minor letters from Captain P. Wall, Castle Barracks, Birr (1922-1923).

Research on Shinrone Church and Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Shinrone, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 693.
Contains field sheet with details to level of preservation, nature of surviving structures, walls, earthworks, aerial photographs and cartographic evidence. Incl. sketches of site plan, a written report over two pages and nine photographs.

Research on Cangort Demesne Castle Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Shinrone, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 897.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over one page and five photographs.

One envelop with one photograph of a late 17th century (?) house in Shinrone, Shinrone Civil Parish, Barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly.
(The house is occupying Tierney's Pub at the time of the photograph.)

Research on Shinrone Castle Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Shinrone, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 935.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over one page and three photographs.