Viscount Frankfort, Sir Charles Burton and County Carlow in the 1840s

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the author acquired about 30,000 letters pertaining to estates, in various parts of Ireland, managed in the 1840s by Messrs Stewart and Kincaid (denoted SK in what follows), a firm of land agents in Dublin. These have not been read since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to SK, they were written by landlords, tenants, clergymen, civil servants, financiers, shipping agents, SK's local agents, etc. The author has been researching them in preparation of a study entitled Landlords, Tenants, Famine - Letters of an Irish Land Agent in the 1840s. Most of those of Carlow interest refer to the lands of Sir Charles Burton on the outskirts of Carlow town, and to lands of Viscount Frankfort some miles to the south. It is the correspondence pertaining to the latter which is the primary focus of the present article, which draws on draft Chapter 12 of the larger study under preparation.