Item 2 - Soft-bound ledger signed ‘Barrett Bros.’

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IE 2135 P106/3/2

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Soft-bound ledger signed ‘Barrett Bros.’

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  • 1924-1954 (Creation)

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302 pp.

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Maxwell, Weldon & Co. was a firm of solicitors operating from premises at 15 Eden Quay, Dublin in the early twentieth century.

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Soft-bound ledger signed ‘Barrett Bros.’ on the inside of the front cover. The first pages of the book contain unspecified income and expenditure accounts listing names of individuals or businesses and sums received or paid. This is followed by income and expenditure accounts of the executors of the late F. Barrett. The remainder of the book contains accounts of grazing lettings in county Clare (including those at Shannon Airport) between 1943 and 1954, the sale of haycocks and the sale of ‘surplus material’ (comprising in the main furniture, bed linen, cutlery and crockery) at Shannon Airport. Damaged and fragile.

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  • Béarla

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    Bound ledger, damaged and fragile. Use book support.

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