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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Valerie Barry

Historical, Genealogical, Architectural Notes on Houses of Kerry

1994 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 62.50
27 Tom Fox

Dingle down the Years collection of old photographs

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
28 Norman McCloskey

Parklight: Images of Killarney National Park

-2013 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
29 Foley; Corca Dhuibhne

Irish Traditional Step Dancing in North Kerry an analysis

1986 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
30 J Connelly and S Sourke

Kildare: Kildare Town-Reeling in the Memories DVD

1996 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
31 John Healy

Maynooth College : its centenary history, 1795-1895

1895 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 62.50
32 Jeremiah Newman

Maynooth and Georgian Ireland

1979 and 1983 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 137.50
33 Salvador Ryan and John-Paul Sheridan, editors

Kildare: We Remember Maynooth-A College Across Four Centuries

2020 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
34

The Earl of Mayo and W.B. Boulton

London 1913 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
35 Rev Martin Brenan

Kildare: Schools of Kildare & Leighlin AD 1775-1835

1935 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
36

The Marquis of Kildare

Dublin 1858 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 525.00
37 Jeremiah Newman

Kildare: Maynooth and Georgian ireland

1979 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
38 William Nolan, editor

Kilkenny-History and Society

1990 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 68.75
39 Rev P Birch, editor

Kilkenny: Saint Kieran's College Kilkenny

1951 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
40 O'PHELAN, John

Epitaphs on the Tombs in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny ...

Dublin 1813 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
41 Feehan (John) Laois

An Environmental History

Stradbally 1983 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 350.00
42 Kevin V. Mulligan

Ballyfin, The Restoration of an Irish House & Demesne

2011 EUR 120.00 - 200.00 EUR 106.25
43 John Feehan

Laois An Environmental History

1983 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 118.75
44

Kildare: Nas na Riogh-From Poorhouse Road to the Fairy Flax

2001 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
45 J W H Carter

Laois: The Built Curiosities of Laois- Fifteen Tours

2012 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
46 Kevin Byrne

Laois: Just Another Town

2016 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
47 Risteard O Maolain

Laois: Athletics in Laois compiled

1956 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
48 Ciaran Reilly

Laois: Cappard- An Irish Country House & Estate

1993 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
49 Daniel Mccarthy

Clare: Ireland's Banner County- Clare from the fall of Parnell to the Great War 1890-1918

2002 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
50 Larry O' Loughlain

Laois: A Century of Rosenallis Parish 1900-1999

1999 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
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