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Records pertaining to genealogist and antiquarian Percy Paley (26 June 1904 – c. 26 May 1985). Nephew of Sir Denis Kirwan Bernard, Paley was the last of the family line to reside at Castle Hacket near Tuam. Materials includes Paley's diary, obituary notes, and a draft of a novel.

Hardback notebook containing a draft of a novel by Percy Paley about undergraduate life in Cambridge after World War I.

Books collected by Kirwan family members, mainly from the late 19th and early-to-mid-20th centuries by Percy Paley, Denis B. Kirwan, and Denis J. Kirwan. Includes:
-'The Treasury of the Sacred Heart', published by Charles Eason (1860);
-'The Justice of the Peace for Ireland', 5th ed. by Henry Humphreys (1876);
-'Pedigree of the Family of Smallwood' by Thos. A.C. Attwood (1908);
-'A Medley Of Memories: Fifty Years' Recollections of a Benedictine Monk' by Rt. Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair (1919);
-'History of Anthony Waring' by May Sinclair (1927);
-'Wilde's Loch Coirib, Its Shores and Islands', 3rd ed. by William Wilde (1936);
-'The Roman Missal', published by M.H. Gill & Son (1938);
-'Some Irish Altar Plate: a descriptive list of chalices and patens, dating from the fourteenth to the end of the seventeenth century now preserved in the National Museum and in certain churches' by J. J. Buckley (1943);
-'The Irish Horse, Volume XXI' by the Bloodstrock Breeders and Horse Owners' Association of Ireland (1953);
-'Welcome: Holy Communion Before and After' by Mother Mary Moyola (1901, reprint 1961);
-'De Búrca Rare Books Catalogue 51' by Éamonn de Búrca (winter 1998);
-'Ireland in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Our Special Catalogue 50' by Éamonn de Búrca (1999);
-'The Kirwans of Castlehacket, Co. Galway: History, folklore and mythology in an Irish horseracing family' by Ronan Lynch (2006)

Small crucifix approximately 10 centimetres in height.

Framed photographs, likely of Kirwan family members, from the late 19th and early 20th century, all unlabelled.

2 boxes (10 x 5 cm

Documents pertaining to sales and/or conveyances of the assets and obligations of the Thomas Barnwall Martin estate, which were largely transferred to the Law Life Assurance Society.

Records pertaining to the estate of Lt. Richard Berridge (1870-1941), who inherited his father's estate in 1887 at age 17. The seat of the younger Berridge was Ballynahinch Castle, County Galway, where he lived until selling the estate to Ranjitsinhji in 1924. He was a justice of the peace for the county and, in 1894, High Sheriff. Records include: Ordnance Survey maps; sale agreements & title records; mortgages & rental records; correspondence with the General Post Office; post-nuptial agreements with wife Mary Eulalia (née Lesley); fishing, quarrying and sporting rights at Ballynahinch and Recess; and releases of land for buildings and rights-of-way.

Copies of Ordnance Survey maps depicting lands owned by Richard Berridge in County Galway.

Documents pertaining to the granting and assignment of fishing and sporting rights at Ballynahinch, Screebe, Recess, and adjacent locations in County Galway involving Richard Berridge and/or the Berridge estate.