A very interesting summary of the PPP contents. Thank you. In mentioning a category such as "Beresford Papers (189 items)", this leaves me wondering if they might be, or include, estate papers, since my forebear had Viscount Beresford as his immediate lessor in Griffiths. To find him there could be a breakthrough. On Tue 01/05/12 3:33 AM , Friend of Carlow [email protected] sent: 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.