Identity Statement
| Title | Countess Alice Murphy Collection |
| Archive Reference | IE BL/PP/AMM |
| Web Link to this Entry | https://iar.ie/archive/countess-alice-murphy-collection |
| Creation Dates | 1870 - 1912 |
| Level of Description | Item (The smallest intellectually indivisible archival unit, e.g., a letter, memorandum, report, photograph, sound recording). |
| Extent Medium | 5 items |
Context
Creator(s): Countess Alice Murphy
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Administrative History ↴
The Murphy family of Clifton, Montenotte, Cork, was a junior branch of the Murphy family, brewers of Cork. Nicholas Murphy fifth son of Jeremiah Murphy lived at Clifton. His third son John Nicholas was created a Count of the Papal States and in 1855 married Alice Mary daughter of Daniel Leahy. He was Mayor of Cork in 1854. At the time of Griffith's Valuation he held an estate in the parishes of Askeaton and Tomdeely, Barony of Connello Lower, County Limerick. The land in the parish of Tomdeely was held from Lord Southwell. In the 1870s he owned 1,352 acres in county Limerick and 24 acres in Cork city. His only child Margaret May married in 1879 (as his first wife) Daniel John Cronin Coltsmann of Glenflesk Castle, Killarney, County Kerry. -
Archival History ↴
This collection was donated in 2013 by the Sisters of the Good Shepard Convent, Limerick. -
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
Donation
Content & Structure
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Scope & Content: Countess Alice Murphy ↴
The Alice Murphy collection consists of five 19th century photographic albums containing c.470 images of family, friends, the religious, royalty, places and costumes. Two albums concentrate on France and Switzerland respectively. Each contains images of various locations within the countries, people in costume (Swiss regions), friends and (perhaps) public figures not personally known to Countess Murphy. They are a mixture of bought images, reproductions of drawings and original photographs. The remaining albums concentrate on family and friends of Countess Murphy. Some are inscribed by Murphy and dated, or a reference to Margaret May Coltsmann.
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Appraisal Destruction ↴
Permanent Retention -
Accruals ↴
No Further Additions Expected -
Arrangement ↴
Minimal arrangement.
Conditions of Access & Use
| Access Conditions | Available by appointment with the Archives Service to holders of UCC Readers tickets. |
| Conditions Governing Reproduction | Subject to University College Cork Special Collections and Archives’ Reading Room terms of membership and in accordance with copyright legislation. |
| Creation Dates | 1870 - 1912 |
| Level of Description | Item (The smallest intellectually indivisible archival unit, e.g., a letter, memorandum, report, photograph, sound recording). |
| Extent Medium | 5 items |
| Material Language Script | English |
| Finding Aids | Item descriptions via collection webpage Archive Web Link → |
Allied Materials
There are no Allied Materials
Descriptive Control Area
| Archivist Note | Emma Horgan |
| Rules/Conventions | ISADG |
| Date of Descriptions | 2017 |