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Letter from John O’Donovan M.D to Sir Thomas A Larcom; a pro-
fessional transcript of pp.94-177 on Whatman Turkey Mills 1858
paper within red ruled borders, the dd Irish script particularly
good, unbound in five quires, 290 x 240cm, dealing with the his-
tory and features of South Mayo around Cong. This is obviously a
commission of Benjamin Guinness who had bought Ashford from
the Browne family and was to expand the existing house into an
enormous pseudo-castle.
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 500 - 1,000
A two sheet vellum document confirming by patent property to
Captain Thomas Evans in the city and county of Kilkenny, entered
into the registry 16th September 1666, signed by Lord Chancellor
Carleton and retaining part of a wax impression of the Great Seal
of Ireland. The first sheet headed by a miniature portrait of the
King beside a cresting of the Royal Arms and Symbols, all well
hand-coloured over a printed base, the whole text highlighted
with gilding, approx. 560 x 700mm
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 600 - 1,000
summarising the circumstances and connections between various
families related to the Hedges of Macroom and Whites, Earls of
Bantry, professionally compiled under the supervision of Olive,
Lady Ardilaun, containing typescripts of historical records and
documents, photographs of portraits and family monuments,
geneologies, each separately verified by Thomas V. Sadler, Regis-
ter, Ulster’s Office and an illustrated section on the destruction of
Macroom Castle, August 1922, with many annotations in ink, pp.
140. (340 x 250cm) handsomely bound in crushed brown moroc-
co, with gilt fillets, spine in comparments, upper cover with central
overlaid monogram tied by a baronesses coronet.
Olive White was born in Macrom Castle in 1850 and inherited it
on the death of her brother the 4th Earl of Bantry 1841, she was
intensely interested in it and the link it gave to her desent from
O’Sullivan Beare and the McCarthy’s. Childless and widowed she
had been traumatised by the First World War and had done her
best to alleviate the distress of Irish soldiers and their families.
The wanton burning of Macrom Castle (the unsatisfactory strate-
gic excuses, given the reality of modern warfare, do not suffice,
and the Black and Tans were long gone) probably caused her to
compile the current list.
It is very thorough and she commissioned professional help to
copy documents. Most, of course, from available public sources
but much from unpublished family papers and importantly tran-
scripts of documents that had been in the Public Record office
so barbarically destroyed. Of immediate interest is the account
signed by Kathleen Olive Everett of a thrilling adventure getting
to Macroom in the wake of the burning and establishing that the
bravery of the caretakers had ensured the rescue of most of the
contents.
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 1,000 - 1,500