"He spent more money on horse-racing than on housekeeping," said a shrewd old man who was in the house.

In fact, Mr.Dunne, I am told, entered a horse for the races at the Curragh after he had undergone what Mr.
Gladstone calls "the sentence of death" of an eviction! Some of the doors bore marks of the crowbar but no great mischief had been done to them or to the large fine windows.

The only serious damage done during the eviction was the cutting of a hole through the roof.

An upper room had been provisioned to stand a siege, and so scientifically barricaded with logs and trunks of trees that after several vain attempts to break through the door the assailants climbed to the roof, and in twenty minutes cut their way in from without.

The dining and drawing rooms were those of a gentleman's residence, and one of the party remembered attending here a social festivity got up with much display.
A large cattle-yard has been established on this place, with an original, and, as I was assured, most successful weighing-machine by the Land Corporation.