Collection: The Fownes/ Tighe Manuscripts
| Collection Description | Sir William Fownes, 2nd Baronet inherited a large estate near Inistioge in Co. Kilkenny from his maternal grandfather in 1725, while still a minor. He subsequently had Woodstock House constructed in the mid-1740s. By 1790 ownership of the estate passed into the Tighe family when Fownes’ only child, Sarah, married William Tighe of Rossana. Sarah would later transfer ownership of the estate to her son William Tighe sometime in the 1790s. The Fownes/Tighe collection was donated to the University by the late Irish historian J.C. Beckett, who was part of the history faculty at Queen’s from 1945 to 1975. [QUB Listing] |
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| Collection Web Address | https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServ... |
Repository: Queen's University Belfast Special Collections and Archives
| Repository Name | Queen's University Belfast Special Collections and Archives |
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| Address | Queen's University Library Floor 1 The McClay Library 10 College Park Belfast |
| UK Postal Code | BT7 1LP |
| Telephone | +44 28-9097-6333 |
| Email Address | specialcollections@qub.ac.uk |
| Web Address | https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/SpecialCollections/ |
| Comment | Some of the information listed from this repository has been extracted by the Women's History Project from lists available in the library. It must be remembered that due to time constraints, not all items in this repository were examined individually. We are grateful for the assistance provided by Mary Kelly, librarian. |
| latitude | 54.58401 |
| longitude | -5.93208 |
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| ID | Repository | Reference | Date | Description | Collection |
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| 16513 | Queen's University Belfast Special Collections and Archives | MS29 | 1731-1810 | This collection consists of one rent book for proper... | The Fownes/ Tighe Manuscripts |