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Digital Imaging of Documents from our Collections of Estate Papers: 'The Landed Estate in Cork'.

Correspondence Photographs Deeds & Legal Documents Maps, Plans & Drawings Account Books & Rentals Estate Reports & Sale Catalogues Other Records & Ephemera Clonakilty Museum Material Background to Landed Estates Alphabetical List of Items

Detail from an estate map of the lands of Clounbaun, Doneraile, county Cork, part of the estate of Nicholas Green Evans (1792). Click to see the full map image.Household and Farm Account Book, Burton Park, Churchtown, county Cork 1834-1835. (Ryan Purcell Estate Papers) Measurement and Account of painting done for the Earl of Glandore by William Ponse. The total account come to £59.7.10. Items painted included coach house gate, staircase and housekeepers room. This gives us an idea of the cost of maintenance of a "Big House" in the early nineteenth century. (1804) (Ryan Purcell Estate Papers )Photograph from photographic album compiled by a Ms. Constance Croker of Byblox house, Doneraile, county Cork (c.1870 - 1900)Letter from emigrant Patrick Dempsey, Riverbrin, St. Pauls, U.S.A. (26 October 1881) (Ryan-Purcell Estate Papers) Portrait of Thomas Hungerford b. 1745. Married Mary Cranfield Becher of Skibbereen in 1770. On returning from a hunt in 1790, he was killed in a fall from a horse near Inchidoney. (c.1770)This is notice of the sale of a tenants leasehold interest in Rathcoole containing thirty acres. (31 December 1881) (Colthurst Estate Papers)

Lease by Jonas Devonsher, Merchant to John Dennis, Merchant of a dwelling house in the Parish of Christ Church, City of Cork and lands formerly belonging to Domnick Terry and Clement Skiddies and others. (9 November 1716) (Penrose Estate Papers) This Project was chosen for funding under the Ask About Ireland Cultural Heritage Project, a six month initiative co-ordinated by the Branching Out Steering Group Cultural Heritage Panel, managed by An Chomhairle Leabharlanna (The Library Council) and funded by the Department of the Environment and Local Government and The Heritage Council.

Home Correspondence Photographs Deeds & Legal Documents Maps, Plans & Drawings Account Books & Rentals Estate Reports & Sale Catalogues Other Records & Ephemera Clonakilty Museum Material Background to Landed Estates Alphabetical List of Items