Our Irish Landlord - Sir Roger Palmer

Roger Palmer is the landlord of my great-grandparents:

"Equally infamous was Sir Roger Palmer who owned 90,000 acres in Mayo. In July 1848, The Telegraph reported how

at Islandeady his 'crowbar invincibles', pulled down several houses, and drove forth the unfortunate inmates to sleep in the adjoining fields. On Thursday we witnessed the wretched creatures endeavouring to root out the timber of the houses, with the intention of constructing some sort of sheds to screen their children from the heavy rain falling at the time. The pitiless pelting storm has continued ever since, and if they have survived its severity, they must be more than human beings'."

http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/en/about-mayo/history/the-great-irish-famine.html


The estate of Roger Palmer, money gained through the brutal oppression of his Irish tenant farmer slaves, was sold to the state but his ancestors are still considered trustees.

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=220

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/furniture-lighting/a-george-ii-parcel-gilt-padouk-cabinet-on-stand-attributed-5092525-details.aspx