Introduction to the Staples Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Staples archive (D1567) held in PRONI.
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The Staples papers include around 7750 documents and volumes, 1683 to around 1935, deriving from the family of Staples of Lissan, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, and Dunmore, Co. Leix. Most of the material relates to the family's estates and business and political interests in Cos Tyrone and Londonderry (which the Lissan estate straddled) and in Co. Antrim. But there is also some estate material on the Dunmore estate in Co. Leix, and also to the Molesworth estate in Dublin City and County and in Co. Offaly.