LE13 is a collection of solicitors' papers relating to the estates of the Daly family of Dunsandle, near Loughrea, Co Galway, and was acquired by the James Hardiman Library, NUI, Galway, in 1998. The collection is in two parts, the first part containing original deeds and the second part made up of legal and financial papers mainly relating to death duties.
The papers of a firm of solicitors', who by 1950, were known as Darley, Orpen and McGillycuddy and relating to the acquisition and settlement of some of the Daly of Dunsandle estates in the 19th and 20th centuries and to the payment of estate duties. The collection contains approximately 230 items, comprised of deeds, copy and draft legal documents, letters, Inland Revenue forms, schedules, accounts and manuscript notes.
The provenance of this collection of papers can be traced through a firm of solicitors, situated in Kildare Street, Dublin, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the papers were generated in the firm's office others accumulated there. This firm of solicitors was known by a number of different names but each was a continuation of the original firm. The following list has been compiled from the papers themselves and from Thom's Directory. The firm was located at 8 Kildare St, Dublin until 1887 , when it moved to 31 Kildare St and from 1924 the address was 30 and 31 Kildare St.
R Meade and Son 1854
Meade and Colles 1862-1892
Meade and Richardson 1893-1895
Richardson and Synnott 1896-1931
Darley, Orpen and Synnott 1924-1935
Darley, Orpen and McGillycuddy 1936-1951
The collection had been divided into two parts before its acquisition by NUI, Galway. The first part was made up of fifty deeds in chronological order and the second part contained loose legal papers, mainly relating to the payment of death duties. In this descriptive list the fifty deeds have been left as a separate entity (A) with some minor alterations in their arrangement. A chronological arrangement has been imposed on the second part of the collection (B), as no original order could be perceived. These legal papers have been divided into a number of sections according to their subject matter (1, 2, 3, etc). The last section has been further subdivided (15.1, 15.2, 15.3 etc).
