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.

I would like to add my appreciation for all the hard work you have all undertaken. I am sure it was a mammoth and time consuming job. I would be interested in the "Brophy" papers as I am researching a Patrick Brophy of Leighlin. His occupation was a cooper. Regards Elaine Clark Sydney Aust.

What a fantastic effort to get so many documents catalogued! As also mentioned by Bill, i'm intrigued that 189 items can be attributed to the Beresford Papers. I'd be very interested to know if they referred to either William James (Sliguff townland) or to this son Thomas James (Kilgraney townland) during the 19th century, when the Beresford family were landlords to much if not all land at both Sliguff and Kilgraney. I look forward to these papers becoming available. Neill > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:33:39 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Pat Purcell Papers. > > 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

Mick, Michael and the Friends of Carlow, Thanks very much for all the hard work put into transcribing these documents. Researchers worldwide will find these transcriptions as an asset for years to come. Thanks, Trevor -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Friend of Carlow Sent: 30 April 2012 18:34 To: [email protected] Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Pat Purcell Papers. 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2171 / Virus Database: 2425/4982 - Release Date: 05/06/12