Item 18 - Photograph album

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IE 2135 P69/1/18

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Photograph album

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  • 1910-1912 (Creation)

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40 pp. (outsize)

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(1867-1928)

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Robert Rennie Ballingal was born on 9 June 1867 at Killarrow, Argyllshire in Scotland. In 1894, he was appointed land agent to the 4th Earl of Dunraven at Adare Manor, county Limerick, which role he retained for 27 years until his retirement in 1921. One of his duties included the supervision of the works at the tobacco factory established in Adare by the 4th Earl of Dunraven in 1908. A keen sportsman, Ballingal was secretary of the Adare Manor Golf Club and an active member of the Limerick Lawn Tennis Club and the Irish Coursing Club. He was also co-director of Killoran Slate Quarries in county Tipperary and a board member of the Limerick Fishery Conservators. Following his retirement he returned to Argyllshire, where he died on 27 July 1928.

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(1897-1970)

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Doris Ballingal was the only child of Robert Rennie Ballingal from his marriage in 1895 to Mildred Clowes. She was born in London on 5 January 1897 and spent her childhood in Adare. She married Eaton Travers of Timoleague, county Cork in 1925 and died in Timoleague on 10 March 1970.

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Leather-bound hardback photograph album compiled by Doris Ballingal. The album contains snapshots taken on the Adare Manor estate, including views of the house, Desmond Castle and Franciscan Friary, lodges and other auxiliary buildings within the estate, including a tobacco barn; also views of the village, including the Augustinian and Trinitarian churches, Dunraven Arms, town hall and a St Patrick’s Day parade on the main street; images of a pet goat, parrot and an assortment of pet cats, dogs, ponies and horses; outdoor picnics and tea parties; motor cars; servants and staff; friends and family members and girls playing golf; views of the Maigue River, Foynes, Askeaton and Glin Castle in county Limerick, Ballyheigue in county Kerry, Whinfield House (in Scotland?), the city of Edinburgh and the Breda estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; views of men working in the Killoran slate quarry in Nenagh, county Tipperary; also images of a flood on the Adare Manor estate, a meet of the Limerick Hounds, images of a gardener’s house after a fire and of a biplane in a field. Many of the images are faded, some have been torn out and others marred by hand-coloured frames. Most of the images bear captions and dates. For loose items originally inserted between the pages of the album, see P69/1/19-20.

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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.4yn4-9x87.

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