Introduction to the Shannon Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Shannon archive (D2707) held in PRONI.
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The papers of the Viscounts Shannon and Earls of Shannon and other members of the Boyle family of Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, includes 4500 documents. Of these, around 400 are photocopies of that part of the Shannon archive which found its way into the National Library of Ireland.
The latter consist mainly of eighteenth and early nineteenth century letters and, as they are in no sense a self-contained unit, the photocopies have been integrated with the original documents deposited in PRONI. The archive includes the private papers of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Shannon, together with estate, financial and miscellaneous family papers, and covers the period 1687-early twentieth century.