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Actions	Portumna Castle, Visitors' Book Remove from selection Add to selection TitlePortumna Castle, Visitors' Book RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceGS17/02 Date1917-1932 Creator 6th Earl of Harewood Production date 1917 - 1932 Scope and Content Leather bound, gilt edged volume with a few pages of signatures. Also includes pencil annotation ‘Lascelles came alone in 1917, 1918’. Signatures include:- -Margaret Boyne, with pencil annotation 'sister of old Lord Harewood’ (Margaret Selina Hamilton-Russell (née Lascelles), Viscountess Boyne (1883-1978). - Howard Larcelles, 1919. -F Harewood. -Mary, 'my first visit to Portumna', October 6th to 11th, 1928 [Princess Mary, daughter of George V, King of England]. She, together with her husband, Viscount Lascelles, visited Portumna in 1928; it was the first time a member of the British Royal Family had come to Ireland after Independence. They stayed for two nights at Dunsandle House, near Loughrea, as guests of Mrs. Bowes Daly (nee Vivian Lascelles) while visiting Portumna Castle in October 1928. Also includes letter 'cellotaped' into the volume from [ ] Roxborough (home of the Peress’s), Loughrea to Lord Lascelles apologising for not seeing him again and thanking him ‘for your hospitality. The rain knocked all the spirit out of us this morning...' (04/12/1919). Also includes a note which states, "Presented by the Right Reverend Edwin Owen, Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert", and ‘To the town of Portumna on the occasion of the restoration of the spire of the Church of Ireland, Parish Church, St Andrews Day 1975". According to contemporary newspaper reports Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles were, during their 1928 visit, to attend services in the Protestant Church, His Lordship the Bishop of Killaloe will be present' (Irish Times, 4 Oct 1928). Extent1 volume Archival historyIn the care / possession of Rev Edwin Owen in 1975, when it was then passed to the town of Portumna, and subsequently to the Library Services. Persons keyword Edwin Owen, Hubert George de Burgh-Canning Clanricarde, 2nd Marquess, Princess Mary, 6th Earl of Harewood, Viscountess Boyne Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives. Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. LevelItem

TitlePortumna Castle, Visitors' Book

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceGS17/02

Date1917-1932

Production date 1917 - 1932

Scope and Content

Leather bound, gilt edged volume with a few pages of signatures. Also includes pencil annotation ‘Lascelles came alone in 1917, 1918’. Signatures include:-

-Margaret Boyne, with pencil annotation 'sister of old Lord Harewood’ (Margaret Selina Hamilton-Russell (née Lascelles), Viscountess Boyne (1883-1978).

- Howard Larcelles, 1919.

-F Harewood.

-Mary, 'my first visit to Portumna', October 6th to 11th, 1928 [Princess Mary, daughter of George V, King of England]. She, together with her husband, Viscount Lascelles, visited Portumna in 1928; it was the first time a member of the British Royal Family had come to Ireland after Independence. They stayed for two nights at Dunsandle House, near Loughrea, as guests of Mrs. Bowes Daly (nee Vivian Lascelles) while visiting Portumna Castle in October 1928.

Also includes letter 'cellotaped' into the volume from [ ] Roxborough (home of the Peress’s), Loughrea to Lord Lascelles apologising for not seeing him again and thanking him ‘for your hospitality. The rain knocked all the spirit out of us this morning...' (04/12/1919).

Also includes a note which states, "Presented by the Right Reverend Edwin Owen, Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert", and ‘To the town of Portumna on the occasion of the restoration of the spire of the Church of Ireland, Parish Church, St Andrews Day 1975". According to contemporary newspaper reports Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles were, during their 1928 visit, to attend services in the Protestant Church, His Lordship the Bishop of Killaloe will be present' (Irish Times, 4 Oct 1928).

Extent1 volume

Archival historyIn the care / possession of Rev Edwin Owen in 1975, when it was then passed to the town of Portumna, and subsequently to the Library Services.

Persons keyword Edwin Owen, Hubert George de Burgh-Canning Clanricarde, 2nd Marquess, Princess Mary, 6th Earl of Harewood, Viscountess Boyne

Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives.

Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access.

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