White Letter | Goold-Verschoyle Estate, Co Limerick
TitelWhite Letter | Goold-Verschoyle Estate, Co Limerick
SignaturIE 627/SM621
Datum
5 Sep 1906
Datum 1906 - 1906
Form und InhaltPhotocopy of letter from E.W. White, Water Buildings, Waring Street, Belfast, to 'Dear Sir', regarding estate and land ownership matters, referring to the Goold/Versachoyle-Goold estate in Athea, West county Limerick. 'In the North of Ireland we do not realise the extraordinary revolution that is taking place in the South under the Land Purchase Acts'. The author relates that he intends to review the recent purchase of the estate in order to refute charges of bigotry leveled against the Catholics of the South and to exemplify the changes taking place. Sergeant Goold bought the lands in question from Lord Courtenay in c.1817 and was a life long friend of Daniel O'Connell ('The Liberator'). He was an 'excellent landlord', readjusting through an arbitrator the tenants' rent in the difficult times following the Napoleonic wars. The author states that in later years a son of Sergeant Goold, known as 'The Archdeacon', 'steeped in feudalism regarded himself as a demigod, and his tenants serfs', built a church and distributed bibles and religious tracts to the tenants, 'tampering with the religious convictions of the Catholics'. This caused feuds and demoralisation. The Archdeacon also settled the first Protestants in the estate. According to the author, relations have been of the 'most exemplary character' between the two denominations, even in times of trouble. Mentions Fenians, and 'moonlighters'. Notes that in particular Protestant clergyman Canon Vance was very kind to Catholics. Outlines changes to the Goold estate since the sale, with the main house being sold to a tenant.
Umfang16pp
Physische BeschaffenheitPhotocopy
SpracheEnglish
PersonenschlagwortGoold-Verschoyle family | Athea, County Limerick
SchlagwortLanded Estate Papers, Landlords and Tenants, 20th century
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