Legal papers relating to the estates in Belfast, Carrickfergus and Antrim areas, Derry City and the Inishowen Peninsula, Co. Donegal of the Shaftesbury (formerly Donegall) family, 1604-1930, including papers on the eel fishery on the Bann at Portna and Toome.

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