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The collection consists of  49 documents relating to the estate and land transactions of the Purcell family. It was presented to the Royal Irish Academy, 30 June, 1950 by J. Riversdale Colthurst on behalf of Mrs. Delap, Mulrankin Rectory, Wexford, and her brother, Dr. W. Stubbs. The papers belonged to their grandfather, the late J.W. Stubbs, Senior Fellow, T.C.D., his mother having been a Miss Purcell.

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Family papers belonging to the Purcells of Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary by Rev. St John D. Seymour (Limerick, 1914).