Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

56 Tuesday 24th April 87 LORD FRANKFORT ESTATE, Coolcullen, near Castlecomer Three letters from Rev Graves, rector of Mothill Parish, to Frankfurt’s Dublin agents, reporting hardship and unrest. (3) € 400 - 600 88 THE SHERLOCKS, Late of Sherlockstown, near Naas Three letters, 1841 - 1843, regarding the misfortunes ofWilliam, Richard, Frank evidently brothers and their mother Matilda Sherlock, all formerly of Sherlockstown house € 300 - 500 89 CARLOW POTATO FAILURE OF 1845 Letter fromThomas Kinsella to Lord Frankfort’s Dublin agents, dated November 11, 1845, enclosing a letter of credit for his considerable rent, £79 -13s, he writes “ with many thanks and would have sent it sooner but waiting for the Fair of Carlow.....I am sorry to tell you half of my potatoes are completely rotten ”. During the 1840s in Co. Carlow, Lord Frankfort owned about 630 statue acres at Rathrush, where Kinsella was one of his prominent tenants. [Mary Hogan, born Kinsella and resident at Rathrush House in recent years is a descendant ofThomas]. € 300 - 400