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- 1900-1912 (Creation)
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99 pp. (outsize)
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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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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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Large cloth-bound hardback scrapbook containing press cuttings, trial programmes, rule books, invitations, advertisements and notices mostly relating to coursing, fishing, field trials and the activities of the Adare Manor Golf Club. Also several articles on tobacco cultivation in Ireland and on the Irish Land Bill (including a number of published letters by the Earl of Dunraven); a series of articles entitled 'Rural Denmark' investigating the country’s agriculture and rural problems; article entitled 'Pre-Historic Faith and Worship' by the Rev. Canon French; article on Irish stud farms; article on motored ploughs; two articles on game prosecutions in Pallaskenry; and a long article on the retirement of Niel Ballingal from his role as factor for the Balgonie colliery in Scotland. For loose items originally inserted between the pages of the album, see P69/1/2-17.
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- Béarla