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Re: Leitrim Barracks
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 18 May 11 15:39 BST (UK) »
One small clue as to the money part:

"The military negotiators returned to theGlen of Imaal and, armed with the threat of compulsory purchase orders, managed to acquire a large portion of the Earl of Wicklow’s mountain property. The tenants on the estate were purchased out with a payment of twenty-five years value of the annual rental that they paid to the Earl of Wicklow. There was also a number of tin houses erected for those tenants whose cottages were considered close to the line of fire. 

The negotiations were completed, the War Department leases signed, and the first gun battery wheeled into position in the Glen firing the first shell in May 1899. Since then hardly a year has passed when the corries and crags of Lugnaquilla have not echoed to the sound of heavy artillery, first in the charge of the British Army and later as an integral part of the Defence Forces of the Irish state."

From:
http://www.msoi.eu/browse-articles?start=735

The dates given suggest some purchases  were made just before 1900

The records probably have survived somewhere.

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« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 18 May 11 15:58 BST (UK) »
These may be the records:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-1410683&j=1

War Office: Army of Ireland: Administrative and Ea... WO 35/47A/4
Land and buildings: Glen Imaal land purchase scheme . General administration of the army in Ireland Land and buildings: Glen Imaal land purchase scheme
Date: 1914

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« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 18 May 11 16:33 BST (UK) »
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You are indefatigable!  Thanks very much.

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« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 18 May 11 17:18 BST (UK) »
Thats all there is - so enjoy your hunt!
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