Could you elaborate a little on the Toler-Aylward Papers please, do they cover the Leighlin region ?. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Friend of Carlow < [email protected]> wrote: > We have now catalogued the Pat Purcell Papers and have moved the archive to > secure storage., Over the years since Pat's death the collection was moved > many times, we found it to be in total disorder and whatever format Pat > originally had assembled the collection in was long since broken up and had > been rearranged many times, with no evidence of organization or function. > It was impossible to catalogue on the principle of original order. We have > done our best to establish a chronological record inventory arranged by > year or if the content overlapped into other years we have attempted to > file under subject. There were many gaps as some of the PPP is in other > hands having been removed from the main collection. Unfortunately with so > little time we were unable to compile an index of surnames. Within the PPP > were various collections such as the Brophy Papers (52 items), Marlborough > Clake-Douglas Papers (15 items), Toler-Aylward Papers, (324 items ) Vigor > Papers ( 430 items), Bunbury Papers (524 items), Beresford Papers ( 189 > items), Browne-Clayton Papers (1,750 items, mainly photocopies compiled in > recent times with main original collection donated to Carlow County > Library), Letters (792 items), Genealogical enquiries (220 dating from > 1920s) Irish Republican Brotherhood Papers (129 items), Irish Republican > Army records (109 items ), Cumann na mBan records (87 items),War of > Independence Records (523 items), Civil War Records (512 items), Political > Papers (2,010 items), Photos (128 items), Family (327 items), Legal Papers, > Deeds etc. (1,645 items), Duggan Papers (272 items) Religious (413 items), > Newspapers (312 items), bound books plus the main collection of the PPP. > The hope is that they will remain in storage until such a time as a Archive > Centre is established for Carlow. In the meantime we have many photocopies > of items which we hope to share as time permits with Carlow IGP in the > future. I know that Mick Purcell will be offline until Christmas as he will > be in Berlin carrying out research. As we will be operating voluntary from > our home computers we can only correspond through the IGP List. We are > unable to respond to individual emails. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >