Copy deed of conveyance of 165 acres of ‘Ballingarrie’ [Ballingarry, parish of Kilchreest] and ‘Cloughmoyle’, barony of Dunkellin, Co Galway, for £3,100.18.10., Sir Thomas Burke, bart, Marble Hill, Co Galway, to John Burke, Isserclearan, Co Galway, esq. Recites deed of lease and release dated 16 and 17 Feb 1802, whereby Maria Bellew conveyed the lands to Sir Thomas Burke and Malachy Daly of Raford, Co Galway. The lands were occupied by the undertenants of Andrew Shaughnessy. This copy was compared by Meade and Colles, 8 Kildare St, [Dublin, solicitors] in Feb 1872.
Copy deed of mortgage (No 96), James Daly of Dunsandle, MP and Denis St G Daly, eldest son and heir apparent (1) John Wood of Browne Hills, Staffordshire, England, (2) and Richard Samuel Guinness of Kildare St, Dublin, barrister (3). The Dalys mortgaged lands in Co Galway and Co Clare and the Lismore estate to John Wood for £15,000. R S Guinness was appointed receiver agent. Recites marriage settlements of 5 & 6 Aug 1780 and 3 & 4 March 1808, provisions made for jointures and younger children. These created large encumbrances on the Daly estates. £42,000 was borrowed from The Alliance Co (6 Apr 1831) to pay off these debts. Livesay, solicitor. [paper]
Copy typescript document in 9 paragraphs from [the British government], stating categorically their wish to take assurances from the other side seriously, stating that dialogue presupposes an end to violence, and that the government enters into talks without any blueprint for a predetermined outcome. (With caption by [Éamonn Downey] with contextual information about composition and subsequent 'revision' of the document by the British government to give the impression they had responded to a request; referring to investigative piece in The Observer of 5 December 1993.)
Notebook containing abstracts of settlements and legal judgements upon the estate. Includes abstracts from the will of Loughlin O'Connor to his son Dermot and his heirs of the lands of Comeshinnig, barony of Ballintubber, County Roscommon, 73 acres in the quarter of Bleagh, in the parish and barony of Dunmore in County Galway, as well as Graige and Carrownetanley, the four quarters of Coylishally and Sillane, as well as other lands mentioned (24 Oct., 1706). Also notes charges placed on the lands in the eighteenth century.
Copy draft mortgage (No 111) of £8,000 charged upon the Dunsandle, Lismore and Kilconnell estates, James Daly of Dunsandle and Denis St G Daly to Henry Bruyster Warren Darley of Kildare St, Dublin, esq. Includes 2 schedules of encumbrances, the first showing the charges then payable amounting to £94,539, the annual repayments amounting to approximately £6,344. The second schedule shows the charges and encumbrances, which would become due on the death of James Daly. They were his wife's jointure, her power of charging £1,000 and the charge of £20,000 for the younger children's portions. R and E Livesay, solicitors. [paper]
"Copy education facsimile pack ""18th-century emigration"" of the Northern Ireland Public Record Office."
Copy extract from registry of the Tuam branch, National Bank in relation to Dermot O'Conor Donelan [illegible, very fragile].
Copy film script by Thomas Kilroy based on his adaptation for the stage of Chekhov's The Seagull, for the BBC television Performance Series, in 94 scenes. [Paginated 1-89.]
Copy "first typedraft" of the first part of a play by David Rudkin entitled Athdark and the Flood (The Saxon Shore) . Listing literary agents M Ramsay, London, and also listing Field Day, Derry [unclear]. Handwritten note about a programme on BBC 2 on 27 May [1983].
"Copy flier from An Chraobh Rua of Conradh na Gaeilge, Dungannon, announcing a series of lectures including a talk by Proinsias Mac an Bheatha ""James Connolly and the Citizen Army"" for 15 March [ ]."