File 1 - Irish Estate

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This section covers some aspects of the affairs of the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Lucan in Ireland during the nineteenth century, mainly consisting of letters, but also including newspaper cuttings, legal opinions, legal costs, a report and a pamphlet. The material concerns such subjects as elections, the Act of Union, financial matters, the establishment of a police force on Innisturk, a court case with James Simson of Cloonagashel, Ballinrobe and local affairts in Castlebar. Letters from the agent in Castlebar document the build up to the 1826 election, when [George Charles] Lord Bingham, was returned as one of the two MPs for Co. Mayo. Two disputes of George Charles, who became third Earl, is also recorded. The first dispute was with his former agent St Clair O'Malley, which resulted in the dismissal of them both as magistrates in 1842. The second dispute, during the Famine years, was with the Poor Law Commissioners over the payment of poor rate and the failure of the Commissioners over the payment of poor rate and the failure of the Castlebar Board of Guardians to collect the rate. Copies of George Charles, 3rd Earl's lettersto his agent Mr. Young of Castlebar in the 1860s are to be found in P38/32/1, which also contains other letters relating to the militia, elections and other matters in Co. Mayo.

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