Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a narrative, divided by year, of the contemporary history of the author's native Ballitore in Kildare, Ireland. The narrative includes anecdotes of village events, histories of Leadbeater's family members and neighbors, and descriptions of their houses and lands. Of her village, she writes in the first volume, "At the close of the old year or rather beginning of the new the Mummers paraded the village. These were Men wearing shirts adorned with ribbands over their clothes, & attended by a frightful mask whom they called a Pickle Herring. They had once broken my Aunt Tuller's & Aunt Carleton's windows." In the second volume, she mentions the visit of smallpox upon her brother's family: "his lovely little Ebenezer was in great extremity. His mother left him that she might not see the last struggles of life." The second volume also contains numerous descriptions of the effects of the militia in Ballitore, as when "a detachment of the King's Company...were sent here": "The soldiers reported to their officer that a number of papers, perhaps seditious, were concealed under some other things at Mr. A. Dryle's-but when upon examination they were found to be old meeting papers...the mistake afforded a good joke." The first volume covers the period from 1766 to 1781, and the second volume from 1758-1826.
