Money was paid into the bank continually by persons who wished the fact of their payments kept secret; and he knew of more than one case in which tenants, whose stock had been seized by the agent for the rents, were much delighted at the seizure, since it had paid off their rents, and so enabled them to retain their holdings and keep out of the grasp of the League, even though to do this they had undergone a forced sale and been muleted in costs.
It was his opinion that the tenants on the Clanricarde property, who are not in arrears, would gladly accept a twenty-five per cent.

reduction, and do very well by accepting it.

But they are constrained into a hostile attitude by the tenants who are in arrears, some of them for several years (as, for example, Father Coen), although I find, to my astonishment, that in Ireland the landlord has no power to distrain for more than a twelvemonth's rent, no matter how far back the arrears may run.
Mr.Place seems to think it would be well to put all the creditors of the tenants on one footing with the landlords.

The shopkeepers and other creditors, he thinks, in that event would see many things in quite a new light.
What is called the new Castle of Portumna is a large and handsome building of the Mansard type, standing on an eminence in the park, at some distance from the original seat.

The building was finished not long before the death of his father, the late Marquis.