Letter to James Lenigan regarding recurrence of potato blight, 15 July 1847

James Lenigan was a Tipperary landowner, resident in Castle Fogarty, near Thurles. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Lenigan's estate was located in the parishes of Ballycahill and Moyaliff, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper. In the 1870s Lenigan owned 1,604 acres in county Tipperary.

There are a number of small collections in UCD Archives and the James Lenigan collection must be one of the smallest. It consists of a letter from John Molloy, Castle Fogarty, Thurles, County Tipperary, to James Lenigan [also of Castle Fogarty], Umberslade Hall, near Hockley Heath, Birmingham (15 July 1847, 3pp & transcript). He describes early indications of the recurrence this season of potato blight and encloses samples of plant leaves.

'A week will tell much. I have heard many other bad accounts this evening but will state nothing but what comes under my own eye. If the potato goes this year, Ireland will never never recover.'

UCDA P146/1 Letter to James Lenigan, 15 July 1847

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