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Deed of sale of 38 acres by Matthew Nangle to Christopher Ormsby.

Deed of sale of Meleaghlin Meodara O’Maddin of Clare, County Galway to John Hearne of Tirihane in consideration of the sum of £13.8.6, gives him the lands devolved to him by Brian Mc Maroge O’Maddin of Culpontii. The lands being a third part of the quarter of Culpontii, a third part of the half-quarter of Graignigorme and a third part of Lisiduane, all situate in the Barony of Longford, County Galway.

Deed of sale of Ranytt Nyn Owen O’Maddin of Lissenarolt, daughter of Owen Mc Sheani O’Maddin of the same, grants to John Hearne of Tirihane, of the half quarter of Cnocksergrome & Derrymore north of Genagh and south-west of Cnocklickmolassy, as well as her interest in the mill of Derrymore now in the possession of John Hearne and his uncle Cormock O Dylleana, for the sum of £6.

Deed of settlement between Richard M Lynch, 14 Ovington Square, Middlesex and trustees John Wilson Lynch of Renmore, Co Galway and trustees of John Wilson Lynch of Renmore, Co Galway and George Staunton Lynch Staunton, Purbrook, Hants. By this deed Richard M Lynch transferred his 1029-acre Mount Bellew estate and railway stock to the trustees for the use of his daughter. If she died childless it was to be inherited by his nephew John Wilson Lynch and his third son.

Deed of the Reverend Thomas O'Connor of Woodquay, County Galway, and Ambrose McDermott of Silane, yeoman. It grants him the lands of Silane bound by the High Road, Lismor Park and the lands of Trimelane O'Connor, consisting of [ ] acres known as Gortamota. To hold for three lives or twenty one years at £10.5.0 per annum.

Deed or renewal of lease between Robert French of Dublin and others and Robert Hedges Eyre of Macroom Castle, County Cork, reciting a lease between the Corporation and Thomas Williams of Galway, merchant in 1670 of the Bowling Green, as well as his devising of the property to Edward Eyre, in perpetuity at 11s. per annum.

Deed outlining a grant of annuity from Robert Hedges Eyre of Macroom Castle, County Cork to Catherine O'Connor, alias Donnelly of Galway, widow. It recounts leases between the Eyre family and Daniel Bryan O'Connor of lands at Currowgurrane in the Barony of Moycullen, as well as lands in Kirwan Park's. In consideration of the surrender of these lands to Robert he undertakes to pay an annuity of £23.1.6 to Catherine.

Deed postponing and suspending the exercise of certain powers (No 50), William Daly, Dunsandle and Capt Denis St George Daly, York Club, York, Yorkshire, England, to the trustees of the Standard Life Assurance Co, Edinburgh. The Daly brothers suspend the powers they were entitled to under a deed of settlement 9 June 1890 for providing jointure and younger children’s portions as part of the terms of a loan to them of £20,000 by Standard Life. The Standard Life mortgage to be the first charge on the estate. Meade and Richardson, 31 Kildare St, [Dublin, solicitors].

Deed appointing Denis Kirwan of Tuam as receiver of the rents and other charges on the property of Josephine Browne of Ardskea House, Ballyglunin, and Andrew Browne of same, with Mr. Aedy and Mr Eyhyn of London, to pay for a loan of £300 given to Josephine.

The first part of this collection is comprised of deeds relating to various transactions made by members of the Daly family between themselves and with others. There are deeds of lease, release, conveyance, mortgage, appointment, assignment and settlement. There are also disentailing deeds, grants of annuity and a grant of the administration of a will. Many of the deeds are numbered and the numbers on pre 1871 deeds correspond to the schedule of deeds prepared in connection with a loan from the Representative Church Body [LE13/ 30 & /31]. All the deeds are parchment documents unless paper is specified. The firm of R and E Livesay, solicitors, was the main legal representative of the Daly of Dunsandle family in the first half of the 19th century. R Meade and Son replaced them in the 1850s. This firm of solicitors and its successors represented the Dalys' interests until the 1950s.

Many of these deeds record transactions which involved the mortgage of the Daly estates to secure loans. James Daly inherited the estates of Kilconnell and Lismore after the death of his cousin Anthony Daly of Lismore in 1810 [LE13/5 & /12]. In 1831 he borrowed £42,000 from the Alliance Insurance Co to help pay off the encumbrances on his estates [LE13/9 & /13]. By 1841 the Daly estates were still heavily encumbered, as can be seen from schedules of charges and encumbrances included with a draft mortgage of 11 Oct 1841 [LE13/20]. In September 1846 the younger children of James Lord Dunsandle postponed their entitlements to shares in a sum of £20,000, to secure a mortgage of £120,000, charged on the Dunsandle, Lismore and other estates. Denis Lord Dunsandle borrowed a further £100,000 from the Representative Church Body in 1871, just after the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. The two sons and successors of Denis Lord. Dunsandle borrowed another £20,000 in 1894 from the Standard Life Assurance Co. This sum was repaid in May 1905 [LE13/43].

Small plots of land were leased to John Dennis, Bermingham House, Tuam, and to three Bishops of Clonfert in the early 1860s and 45 acres of Carrownea were leased to the Hogan family of Kilconnell in 1898. Plots of land in Kilconnell were sold to Denis Lord Dunsandle and Francis Swift, schoolmaster, in the 1870s and the Mitchell family sold their interest in lands at Attimonmore and Brackloon to William Daly in 1905. Marriage settlements record the provision Denis Lord Dunsandle made for his daughters and there are many genealogical details about the Daly family of Clooncagh, contained in a deed of assignment dated 30 Dec 1854 [LE13/25].