Item 2 - Small leather-bound volume of maps of the estate of the Earl of Listowel.

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IE 2135 P24/2

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Small leather-bound volume of maps of the estate of the Earl of Listowel.

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  • [1819?] (Creation)

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254 pp.

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(1751-1837)

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William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel (1751-1837) was a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons until the Act of Union in 1801. Having voted in favour of the Union, he was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Ennismore in the county of Kerry. He was created Viscount Ennismore and Listowel in 1816 and Earl of Listowel in county Kerry in 1822.

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Small leather-bound volume of maps of the estate of the Earl of Listowel. The volume bears the address of Creagh & Byrne Solicitors of Listowel, county Kerry, and a note on the endpaper indicates that the maps were used as an exhibit in a court case involving the Irish Land Commission in 1905. The book commences with an index of townlands and five folding maps of multiple townlands. These are followed by individual townland maps, each on a single page. The maps show the boundaries and sizes of holdings on each townland and occasionally the name of the occupant or the nature of land, whether arable, pasture, bog or wood. The owners of surrounding townlands are also frequently identified. The maps are hand-coloured, and many of them contain coloured vignettes of thatched cottages, churches, ruins, trees or landscapes. The pages have been numbered throughout but many of the pages are blank.

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  • Béarla

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    Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.225v-jq90. A microfilm copy of this item is available in the National Library of Ireland, ref. POS 8575. For a record of this copy, see https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000169844.

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