Draft settlement of the mansion house and demesne of Dunsandle, containing 1,000 acres, Denis Lord Dunsandle to William Daly and Robert Warren Meade, as trustees. Lord Dunsandle leaves the property entailed on his male and female heirs, beginning with his younger son Denis St George Daly. His reputed daughters and their husbands are all named. Roman Catholics were barred from the succession and the life tenant was to keep the property insured and in good repair. Includes Succession Duty Office stamp (15 Feb 1893). Meade Colles and Co, 31 Kildare St, [Dublin, solicitors].
Draft lease of Dunsandle, by Denis St George Daly to William Daly, for the term of their joint lives, £400 annual rent. Meade and Richardson.
Letter from John Kinneen, Dunsandle, Kiltullagh, Athenry, [Co Galway], to Messrs Meade and Richardson, stating that as another dividend is about to be paid it will be necessary to send a certificate of Mr Meade’s death to the official receiver’s office. Enclosure letter from Board of Trade, Department of the Official Receiver in Companies Liquidation, 33 Carey St, Lincoln’s Inn, London, to John Kinneen, in relation to the matter of the Mercantile Bank of Australia [in which Denis Lord Dunsandle had shares, see LE13/70], they request that probate of Mr Meade’s will be forwarded to them.
Scrap of paper, part of a sworn statement of Thomas Hand[rick], Woodstown, Co [Dublin?], relating to an original lease of lands in the Queen’s Co [Co Laois].
Copy ‘Remarks of Messrs Norton Rose and Co, 10 Victoria St, Westminster, London, upon points in the further deeds furnished to them (and answers thereto)’ relating to Capt Denis St George Daly, Richardson and Synnott, [solicitors].
Copy conveyance of 155 acres of Esker and 20 acres of Gloves East, barony of Athenry, for £2,418, William and Denis St George Daly (1), William Daly and John Joseph Smyth of Cooliney, Loughrea, Co Galway, trustees of several deeds of settlement (2) to the Very Rev Andrew Boylan, Mount St Alphonsus, Limerick, Rev Michael Somers, Killukin House, Co Roscommon and Rev Patrick Murray, Clonaid, Belfast, all [Redemptorist] priests (3). Recites various deeds including two to which Sir Thomas Redington was a party. Richardson and Synnott.
Correspondence and legal papers relating to the sale of the Mitchell family’s interest in the lands of Brackloon, Attimonmore South and Laragh in the baronies of Athenry and Kilconnell, Co Galway, to William Daly of Dunsandle. The lands of Brackloon were held under a lease from the Rev Nicholas Devereux to Patrick Mitchell, dated 18 April 1856. Maxwell, Weldon and Co, 40 North Great George’s St, Dublin were the solicitors representing the Mitchell interest. The deed of conveyance and assignment was dated 2 October 1905, see LE13/48.
Agreement Margaret Mitchell with William Daly, whereby Margaret Mitchell agrees to sell to William Daly for £800 the farm of Brackloon and for £600 the lands of Attymon and Laragh and setting out the terms. Maxwell, Weldon and Co, solicitors.
Letter from the Account’s Dept, Office of Public Works, Dublin, to Maxwell, Weldon and Co, relating to a loan to Patrick Mitchell of £300 charged on the land of Attimonmore South and Laragh on 19 July 1883, redeemed on 9 Dec 1884. Enclosure details of the registration of 2 documents in 1879 and 1883 relating to Patrick Mitchell of Ballinamore, Co Leitrim, grocer and draper, on notepaper of Maxwell, Weldon and Co.
Letter from Richardson and Synnott, 31 Kildare St, Dublin, to Messrs Maxwell Weldon and Co, 40 North Great George’s St, Dublin, relating to Mitchell’s minors. They express regret ‘that your letter of the 13th May escaped our attention’. They have placed the balance of the purchase money £1,289 on deposit in the Munster and Leinster Bank, and enclose the receipt.