The names of the managers of a couple of Monaghan estates are mentioned on a page relating to Whitework and Lace ... it's on a fine needlework supplies company's website. Tristram Kennedy was the manager of the Carrickmacross estate of the Marquis of Bath and Captain Morant was the manager of the Shirley Estate as the Shirley family were absentee landlords. The Public Record Office, Balmoral Avenue, Belfast holds The Blayney of Castleblayney Papers. PRONI also hold
The Shirley Papers which comprise c.20,000 volumes and documents relating to the estate and local political affairs of the Shirley family of Lough Fea, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan (and Ettington Park, Stratford-upon Avon, Warwickshire). The greatest concentration of the Shirley archive is in the century between 1830 and 1930
1843-5 Assisted Emigration from Shirley Estate Clogher Record 14 (2) 1992. The Clogher Record in published annually in February by the Clogher Historical Society.
The National Archives in Dublin hold some
National School Roll Books and Registers received via the Department of Education - Monaghan. Garrett Cody of Derrylavan rented his property from William P. Lane and not from Evelyn Philip Shirley.
Christopher
