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Brochure advertising the sale of Ards House and Estate. The brochure has photographic prints of Sheephaven Bay, Ards House, and the associated workmen’s cottages. It is noted that the sale includes 2,000 acres. Ards House comprises a stone-built Georgian style residence with ‘six reception rooms, a billiard room, 19 principal bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a nursery suite, splendid servant’s quarters, ample garages and stabling, 20 cottages and beautiful pleasure grounds’. The brochure provides details on various facets of the property and notes that the owner (Lady Ena Stewart-Bam) ‘has been in negotiation with the Irish Land Commission, who are quite prepared to give every facility to an intending purchaser’. The agent is noted as Messrs Battersby & Co., 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. The brochure also notes:
• The sale of the historic ‘Doe Castle’ ruin with about 30 acres of demesne land.
• The potential sale of ‘furniture which includes some old and rare pieces and a valuable library’.
• That the ‘Ards Estate has been in the possession of the Stewart family for about 150 years. The first Stewart of Ards and the First Marquess of Londonderry were only brothers. The present head, Lady Stewart-Bam of Ards, is selling the property as her husband’s chief interests are in South Africa’.
• That the price for the freehold is £50,000 including sporting and fishing rights.

Attendance record of the first and second Dublin Battalions of the Irish Volunteers. The entries are dated 15 April 1916. The record includes the signatures of Seán Heuston (Seán Mac Aodha), Richard McKee, Mícheál Ó Murchadha, The O’Reilly (Ua Rathghaille), William Pearse, and Thomas MacDonagh.

A view of the Crom Abú (or Crom a Boo) Bridge and White's Castle on the River Barrow at Athy in County Kildare. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Evening at Athy on the River Barrow'.

An aerial view of Athlone, County Westmeath, in about 1940. The Church of Saints Peter and Paul (constructed between 1932-39) is prominent in the image.

A view of the Athlone Railway Bridge, also known as the White Bridge, a railway bridge over the River Shannon at Athlone in County Westmeath

A view of the exterior of Athlone Catholic Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.

Assignment of Michael Murphy, 24 Bow Street, to John Cunningham, 44 Bow Street, of no. 24 Bow Street in consideration ‘of he putting said premises in repair, and he allowing me two shillings and 6d per week during my life’. With a conveyance (24 May 1887) from John Cunningham to Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and other Capuchin friars, Church Street, of the said premises in consideration of the sum of £50. This deed has a small sketch map of the property. With receipts for the aforementioned payments and notices for payments in respect of municipal rates on the said premises. (See CA CS/2/2/7/10).

A clipping of a report on the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson by Irish republicans. The report is taken from ‘Country Life’ (1 July 1922).

A postcard view of Ashford Castle (referred to as 'Ashford House, Cong') situated on the Galway-Mayo border. The original caption refers to the purchase of the castle by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798-1868) in 1852. Reference is also made to the extensive renovation work carried out by Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840-1915).

An image of an artwork seller on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, in about 1940.