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Lease by Charles William Bury to Thomas Acres for part of Pound Street marked on attached map for £18 10s. Includes hand drawn map.

The Commissioners of Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Oldfield, Smith and Kirwan reciting the fee farm grant of 1830 between Thomas Bernard and Ralph Coote of Brookville relating to 57 acres of land part of Cloonagh and the commissioners for encumbered estates disposing of the lands for £9575 to Robert William Von Stieglitz. Their account and the account of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bernard owner and petitioner and granting the said property to Henry Oldfield, Lionel Smith and Denis Kirwan for lands at Mucklagh totalling 370 acres and the yearly rent of £19 18s. All part of the lands at Cloonagh comprising of 370 acres are assigned to Oldfield, Smith and Kirwan forever by the judges of the court. A schedule of the tenants on the Mucklagh property is provided, as well as an 1854 agreement for tenancy between John Molloy and the school master. Includes hand drawn map.

Fee Farm Grant by Lady Emily Howard-Bury to Alexander Robert McMullen from original lease dated 25 September 1802 for house in High Street, Tullamore at a yearly rent of £5 10s. Includes hand drawn map.

Fee Farm Grant by Lady Emily Howard-Bury to Robert Goodbody for Wilson House on High Street, Tullamore reciting lease to Thomas Wilson and Robert James Goodbody. Includes hand drawn map.

Photocopy of letter from Mary Perkinson to John Monaghan, enquiring whether he knew if her sister, Judy and her family who had emigrated to America, were still alive. Informs him of the marriages of her son, William and daughter Eliza. Also mentions her intention to send two of the other children to America.

Photocopy of letter from Mary Perkinson to John Monaghan, informing him of the family's impending eviction from their holding and pleading for assistance to emigrate to America. Describes Croghan and the impact of famine and emigration on the area: 'Most of your old neighbours are either dead or emigrated, most of the land was to growing grass, and strange to say the people are flying away in thousands yet. Nothing will keep them at home. Love of country or of kindred will not prevent them. Off they go and when will it end God only knows. Bad landlords is the cause.'

Photocopy of a fragment of a letter from William Parkinson in Widnes, Lancashire, to his cousin, John Monaghan, in Michigan, introducing himself and his family, and asks after news of their aunts in common, Judy Duwan (nee Monaghan) Bridget Harrison (née Monaghan), all of whom had emigrated to America, and where he would like to emigrate to in the future.

Photocopy of letter from William Perkinson, Croghan, to his brother-in-law, John Monaghan, Lanervase County, Michigan, US. Describes financial difficulties of the family, the fall in value of family home and the great distress suffered in the locality. "There is no wonder made of death here". He writes also of his hope to emigrate to America.

Photocopy of letter from William Perkinson to John Monaghan, noting the 30 year acquaintance of the two, and enquiring about the welfare and whereabouts of Bernard Devan, a native of Croghan who emigrated to America, and known to Monaghan.