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819
QUEEN’S COUNTY [LAOIS]
CORRESPONDENCE 1830s
A large collection (in a small box) of more than 100
letters mostly dated 1833-39, to or from John W.
Fitzpatrick, elected MP for Queens Co. 1837, with
some to or from John R. Price, a magistrate near
Mountrath and an associate of Fitzpatrick.
Themes include voting, alleged intimidation, tithes,
patronage in employment, poverty, rent, distraint
and ejections, etc. - presumably a typical MP’s
mailbag.
As a collection, w.a.f.
€60 - €80
820
KERRY LETTERS
A collection of 3 ALS from Kerry, early 19th century,
with interesting postal markings, one from a tourist
in Killarney, 1818, describing the ‘disgusting’ state
of Muckross Abbey, with thousands of skulls and
bones piled up together in one place; a second,
1823, from a soldier, saying all the bridges they had
to pass were broken down, ‘This is the very hot bed
of the Catholics and the native place of the great
O’Connell ..’, and a third, dated 1832, from a local
agent, reporting to Dublin about reclamation of
mountain land, overpopulation, ejectments etc. (3)
€60 - €80
821
THE RECTOR OF KILLORGLIN
A quantity of letters relating to T. Hamilton, Rector
at Killorglin, Co. Kerry, mostly relating to his large
family of thirteen children, 1880-1909, of whom
two were committed for lunacy, and all the rest
emigrated, to Chicago, New Jersey, Brooklyn and
New Zealand (see letter dated 29 Sept. 1909). It
appears that Rev. Hamilton died about 1870, but
his widow long outlived him; by 1909, seven of his
children were still alive, six having died.
As a collection, w.a.f.
€50 - €60
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