Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 62 Doneraile Papers [MSS 32,851-32,999; 34,000-34,217; D 27,326-47; MS 16,519; MSS 19,681-3; MS 19,726; MS 21,717; MSS 21,850-1; MS 21,985; MS 22,027; MS 23,463; MS 24,927; and maps 16 J.(16), (18-20)] (Accession No. 5669) A collection of estate and personal papers generated by the family of St Leger, Viscounts Doneraile of Doneraile Manor, Co. Cork, relating to estates mainly in counties Cork and Waterford, 1756-1950. The collection also includes material relating to the Castletown estate in Queen’s county due to the marriage in 1874 of the 2nd Lord Castletown (Bernard Edward Barnaby Fitzpatrick) to Ursula Clara Emily St Leger, daughter of the 4th Viscount. Compiled by Susan O’Loghlen and Ciara McDonnell, 1998-2000 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................8 ST LEGER PEDIGREE.................................................................................................. 14 I. ESTATE: LEASES & RELATED AGREEMENTS ................................................ 16 I.i. English Property........................................................................................................16 I.ii. Tipperary Estate........................................................................................................16 I.iii. Dublin: Kildare St Premises.....................................................................................17 I.iv. Queen’s county Estate..............................................................................................18 I.v. Cork Estate ...............................................................................................................18 I.v.1. The Anderson estate at Buttevant, county Cork, 1809-41...................................18 I.v.2. Buttevant Manor ................................................................................................20 I.v.3. Buttevant Town.................................................................................................21 I.v.4. Doneraile Town.................................................................................................21 I.v.4(1) Buttevant Lane ...........................................................................................22 I.v.4(2) Buttevant St................................................................................................23 I.v.4(3) New Road, Doneraile .................................................................................23 I.v.4(4) Mallow St., Mallow Lane & nearby areas...................................................24 I.v.4(5) Northside of town of Doneraile ..................................................................24 I.v.4(6) Chapel Lane, & Fishpond St & Lane ..........................................................25 I.v.4(7) Main St.......................................................................................................25 I.v.5. Doneraile Manor ................................................................................................26 I.v.6. Other leases for Doneraile ..................................................................................32 I.v.7. Aldworth’s Newmarket Estate ...........................................................................35 I.v.8. Kilcummer Estate ..............................................................................................35 I.v.9. Ballyhooly Estate...............................................................................................36 I.v.10. Cork City.........................................................................................................36 I.vi. Waterford Estate......................................................................................................36 I.vii. Memoranda of letting & caretaker agreements........................................................41 I.viii. Conacre & grazing agreements..............................................................................41 I.ix. Lists of leases & schedules ......................................................................................41 I.x. Searches....................................................................................................................43 II. ESTATE: FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ......................................................... 44 II.i. Rent rolls & rentals for estates in general..................................................................44 II.ii. Rentals for Buttevant...............................................................................................53 II.iii. Rentals for the county Waterford estate & town of Tramore...................................54 II.iv. Rentals for individual estates ..................................................................................55 II.v. Abatements, rent charges, arrears, tithes & sundry rent accounts .............................56 II.vi. Estate accounts.......................................................................................................57 II.vii. Cash books ............................................................................................................57 II.viii. Cash accounts (not in volume form but loose)......................................................58 II.ix. Estate vouchers.......................................................................................................58 II.ix.1. Estates in general.............................................................................................58 II.ix.2. Waterford & Tramore estates...........................................................................60 II.ix.3. Cork estate.......................................................................................................60 II.x. Income tax...............................................................................................................61 2 III. ESTATE MANAGEMENT...................................................................................... 64 III.i. Family members......................................................................................................64 III.i.1. Arthur St Leger, 1st Viscount (of the 1st creation) .............................................64 III.i.2. Elizabeth St Leger, 1st Viscountess (wife of Arthur, 1st Viscount) ....................64 III.i.3. Arthur Mohun St Leger, 3rd Viscount (of the 1st creation).................................64 III.i.4. Hayes St Leger, 4th Viscount (of the 1st creation)..............................................65 III.i.5. Sentleger Aldworth (later known as St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount of the 2nd creation)......................................................................................................................65 III.i.6. Hayes St Leger, 2nd Viscount (of the 2nd creation) ............................................65 III.i.7. Hayes St Leger, 3rd Viscount (of the 2nd creation) .............................................65 III.i.7(1) General correspondence............................................................................65 III.i.7(2) Specific correspondence ...........................................................................66 III.i.8. Hayes St Leger, 4th Viscount (of the 2nd creation) ...........................................66 III.i.8(1) General correspondence............................................................................66 III.i.8(2) Specific correspondence ...........................................................................67 III.i.9. Mary St Leger, 4th Viscountess (wife of Hayes, 4th Viscount).........................68 III.i.10. Richard Arthur St Leger, 5th Viscount ............................................................68 III.i.11. Ursula Clara Emily Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baroness Castletown...............................69 III.i.12. Edward St Leger, 6th Viscount........................................................................69 III.i.13. Bernard Edward Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown..........................69 III.i.14. Specific groups of correspondence .................................................................70 III.ii. The Agents.............................................................................................................71 III.ii.1. James & Arundel Hill......................................................................................71 III.ii.2. William Hill ....................................................................................................72 III.ii.2 (1) General correspondence..........................................................................72 III.ii.2(2) Specific correspondence ..........................................................................73 III.ii.2(3) Proposals for county Cork estate..............................................................74 III.ii.2(4) General correspondence concerning the county Waterford estate ............75 III.ii.2(5) Other material concerning the Waterford tenants .....................................76 III.ii.2(6) Surveys, tenant & freeholders lists & returns ...........................................77 III.ii.2(7) Ejectments...............................................................................................78 III.ii.2(8) Agent’s accounts .....................................................................................78 III.ii.3. Henry Longfield..............................................................................................79