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Wills, codicils, and other documents pertaining to estate settlements of Kirwan family members.

This series has been divided into 4 sub-series according to document type, originals, probates, letters of administration and copy wills. There are 21 wills in all, dating from 1664-1887 and relating to five different families. Ormsby (14), Ruttledges (4), Elwood (1), O'Malley (1) and Semple (1). Two wills (LE40/6/132 and LE40/6/139) express a wish to be buried in the graveyard at Sligna. This must have been an old name for the area on which Killegan church is built (see LE40/87) which is the lease from Thomas Ormsby of an acre for the churchyard at Sligne. In his will Anthony Ormsby of Ballinamore wished to be buried in the graveyard at Sligna (see LE40/6/132) and he is buried at Killedan (see "Memorials of the Dead in Ireland", vol 4, p 107.

Folder of contact sheets and corresponding negatives documenting aspects of Bob Quinn's home life, and life and characters in the locality. Also included are images taken in Miltown Malbay during the 1992 Willie Clancy summer school, and portrait images of former Blasket Islanders.

Contact sheet and corresponding negative sheet containing 16 images.

Photographs from Ballyvaughan and Milltown Malbay, at the Willie Clancy summer school. In one picture, fiddles and banjos are lined up on a street, and a man is playing a banjo. Photographs of pebbles along a stretch of beach, and children on the beach.Side profile of a man in a car, B. Bourke is written on the image. Photograph of a corridor, or pedestrian tunnel with people walking down it.

Contact sheet and corresponding negative sheet containing 16 images.

Further photographs from Miltown Malbay at the Willie Clancy summer school. Image of groups of musicians playing the fiddle. Tommy Peoples teaching a class, and Junior Crehan photographed on his own.

Picture taken outside of a boy holding a dog by a lead, standing behind a hot dog van, and some people standing outside a house.

Contact sheet and corresponding negative sheet containing 16 images.

More photographs from Miltown Malbay at the Willie Clancy summer school. Noel Hill teaching a concertina class, and individual pictures of people playing the concertina. Photographs of groups of set-dancers. Photographs of the pedestrian tunnel, with people walking through.

Contact sheet and corresponding negative sheet containing 15 images.

More photographs from Miltown Malbay at the Willie Clancy summer school. Set dancing, people playing the fiddle, and a man playing the uilleann pipes. Two photographs of a group of children, including Marcus, playing on a see-saw outside.