Tenants sent out from Lord Palmerston’s estates in Co. Sligo, Ireland, to Quebec, April 1847, during the Great Famine
All three Viscounts Palmerston retained a keen interest in their wider landholdings, especially those in Ireland, in Dublin and in County Sligo, which provided more than half their rental income — and the archives document their role as reforming and improving landlords. In Ireland, in County Sligo, investments ranged from maritime pines to the harbour at Mullaghmore, and the third Viscount provided assistance for his tenants to emigrate to the New World in the face of the Great Famine. Letters back from tenants in 1846 show them settled from Connecticut to Canada.
