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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
51 Ger Dunphy and Christy Ring

Laois: Ballinakill- A Journey Through Time compiled

2002 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
52 Prof Frank J Convery

Laois: Tourism In Co Laois - A Development Strategy

1992 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
53

Abbeyleix: The Story of Abbeyleix

1953 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
54

Laois: Archaeological Inventory of County Laois

1995 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
55 Toomey and Greensmyth

An antique and storied land: history of Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough and environs in County Limerick

1991 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
56 Michael Hogan

Lays and Legends of Thomond with Historical and Traditional Notes

1924 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
57

New, Popular and Practical Guide to Limerick, Clare Coast and the Shannon

circa 1890 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
58 Paddy Brennan

Limerick Music Throughout the Decades

2018 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
59 [Mainchin Seoighe]

[Limited edition Limerick local histoy]

2000 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
60

Ireland. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick

1843 EUR 70.00 - 140.00 EUR 62.50
61

Limerick Local Histories

1986 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
62 Thomas Joseph Westropp

The Ancient Castles of Limerick

1906-1907 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 150.00
63

The Story of Kilmallock by Mainchin Seoighe [Mannix Joyce]

1987 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
64 Patricia M. Bennis

St. John's Fever and Lock Hospital Limerick, 1780-1890

2009 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
65 Kevin Hannan

Limerick Historical Reflections

1996 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
66

County Louth Archaeological Journal

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 200.00
67 William O'Sullivan, editor

The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo

Dublin 1958 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
68 William Nolan, editor

Offaly History & Society

1998 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 125.00
69 Caimin O'Brien

Offaly: Stories from a Sacred Landscape- Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise

2006 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
70 Rev. John Canon Monaghan

Records relating to the Dioceses of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise

1836 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
71

Offaly: On The Banks of Three Rivers-stories from West Offaly by Padraig Heavin

2016 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
72 W. G. Wood-Martin

Sligo and the Enniskilleners. From 1688-1691

1882 EUR 70.00 - 140.00 EUR 112.50
73

Tipperary: History and Society - Essays on the History of an Irish County

1985 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 112.50
74 Peter Meskell

History of Boherlahan-Dualla [Tipperary]

1987 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
75 B. Moloney, editor

Times to Cherish. Cashel and Rosegreen Parish History 1795-1995

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
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