Add MS 89177/9/3

Papers relating to rent administration of the Clanricarde estate in County Galway, Ireland.

Includes:

Accounts prepared at Loughrea Rent Office on 5 March 1883 of rent and arrears due and amount to come from the government under the Arrears Act of 1882 with tenants' names listed with townlands across estates (item 11);

List of proceedings taken against tenants by area and number of writs issued in 1881 to 1882 (item 49);

Petition of tenants for twenty five per cent reduction of 10 December 1885 (item 12);

Rental and arrears for the Craughwell estate to 1 November 1879 (item 46);

Numerous letters from and to John Henry Blake (agent), with updates on business affairs and tenants requests, including: letters and plan, August 1876, from Margaret Hamilton seeking permission to build two new houses (items 37 to 38); letter of August 1876 regarding orchard planting and rights to salmon fishing (item 35); and letter of 17 November 1878 replying to Clanricarde (Hubert de Burgh Canning) regarding difficulties of collecting rents in a timely fashion (item 23).

Memorandum of chapels and schoolhouses on the estates (item 52);

Rough plan of Lickmolassy Hill Farm of 19 July 1876 (item 31);

Letters and newscuttings concerning land agitation, and Lord Clanricarde's obituary of April 1875 titled 'Galway Vindicator' (item 9).