Hardbound A4 notebook with manuscript messages taken by Macnas from enquiries made to the Macnas Office.

Hardbound A4 notebook with manuscript messages taken by Macnas from enquiries made to the Macnas Office.

Hardbound A4 notebook with manuscript messages taken by Macnas from enquiries made to the Macnas Office.

Index card relating to the townland of Magherabeg, [An Machaire Beag]. Card for Cnocán na gCearc.

Index card relating to the townland of Newvillage, [An Baile Nua].

Forms and correspondence received updating the contact details of Community Councils.

Forms received updating the contact details of community councils.

Folder labelled "Maintenance Orders Bill" consisting of correspondence and bills including copy of Maintenance Orders Bill, as introduced; copy of Maintenance Orders Bill, as amended in committee; copy of Maintenance Orders Bill, as passed by Dáil Éireann [lower house of Irish parliament]; copy of Maintenance Orders Bill, Committee Amendments, and orders of the day, Seanad Éireann (SÉ) [upper house of Irish parliament, Senate] 03/07/1974; paper by Dermot Hewson, Huggard, Lambe and Co solicitors, on importance of foreign maintenance orders, with cover letter to Mary Robinson 17/06/1974 and reply 20/06/1974; handwritten notes on the Bill; speech by Minister for Justice on the Bill at Second Stage (SÉ ), with notation 197[4?]. See also P143/1/3/4/1.

Set of index cards describing the local features of the townland of Maíros/ Maighros [Moyrus]. Several notes on the different formats and spellings of the townland's name. Some of the local features described include Forrest View House, Trá Mhaighrois, Fraochoileán (Freaghillaun on the OS maps), Carraigh Raghnaill and Leathreach Raighnaill (an anecdote about how it is haunted by the hound of the friar Raghnall), Garbh Charraig, Reilig Mhaighrois, Sruthán Sianach/Tobar Sianach (Toberskeenagh Holy Well on the OS maps), Roisín a tSamha, Cibh an Droighne, Portach Mhaighrois, Abhainn an Mhuilinn (which marks the border between Maighros and An Coillín), Inis Bigir (Bigger's Island on the OS maps). A note in Seán Mac Giollarnath's 'Annála Beaga an Iorras Aitheanta' about buried treasure left there by a 'ceithearnach' (middlemen, or lightly armed foot soldiers) from Dumhaigh Ithir. A note about the ruins of the Mission School and Parsonage, which was also the site of a church in the past, but no trace of the church remains. A few graves are to be found, most notably that of Archibald Thomas Hamilton (see Leitir Seanaidh). Various local sources informed the information gathered on this placename, as indicated by the word 'local' on many cards.