| Collection Description | BL/EP/B are the estate and family papers generated by the White/Leigh-White/Shelswell-White family of
Bantry House, Bantry, Co.
Cork. On the 20th May 1997 the owner of the Bantry Estate, Egerton Shelswell-White, formally donated
the Archive to UCC. The
archive contains the formal records regarding the legal, financial and general administration of this large
house and estate over a
period of 300 years, and also the more personal records relating to the lives and personalities of the family
who owned the estate.
However not all of the original records have survived. Due to a fire in the Estate Office in early 1900s a
significant part of the
original collection was lost. Principally, there are no rental ledgers for the 19th century. However there are
Rental Sheets for 1840,
1856/57, 1865-1866 and 1881 which provide information for certain areas of the Estate. Similarly very few
records survive for the
design and development of the magnificent gardens at Bantry House. These were presumably destroyed
prior to the transfer of the
archive. [UCC Special Collections and Archives] |
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