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Updated: May 31, 2025
In addition to the few English-managed estates it was only in Ulster that matters were otherwise, owing to the existence of the custom an embryo copyhold, Lord Devon called it known as tenant-right.
There was a curious irony in the spectacle of the House of Lords standing out for the principle of fixity of tenure, and defending tooth and nail the tenant-right of a few hundred planters, when little more than thirty years ago this same body offered the most relentless opposition to any recognition of the right of compensation for disturbance on the part of four millions of Irish tenants.
He could sell his share, or the interest in it, to any other member of the tribe the origin, perhaps, of what is now called tenant-right; he could not, however, sell to a stranger without the consent of the tribe and the chief. The stranger coming in under such an arrangement, held by a special tenure, yet if he remained during the time of three lords he became thereby naturalized.
Touching the tenant-right, which is admitted to exist by Mr Geraty, the priest, Mr Burchall Lindsay is asked "49. Is the sale of the good-will of farms prevalent in the district, and to whom is the purchase-money paid? It is; and the money is paid to the tenant." Mr Little, in answer to the same question, says, "Yes." He is further asked "42. How far is it recognised by the landlords?
At Abbeyfeale, County Kerry, tenant of a small farm, at annual rent of twenty-four shillings, sold his interest for £55. All the sales, save the Tipperary one, were in a district in which, prior to the Land Act of 1881, tenant-right was unknown.
Here are some of my statements on a then experience of thirty-one years: 'The expenditure by landlords on farm buildings is as great in Ireland as in Scotland. 'In the exceptional state of things I strongly disapprove of tenant-right in Ireland, which, as Lord Palmerston said, is landlord wrong. 'Small holdings are a very bad thing in Ireland where they are not mixed with large holdings.
Mr Nicolas Maher, the Repeal member for the county, replies to the question "Do you understand at all in Tipperary what is known in the north of Ireland as the tenant-right, by which a tenant, without a lease, expects a sum of money for giving up the possession of the land, either from the landlord if taking possession, or from another tenant to whom he may give up the farm?"
Monk's company was now over, and he had nothing to do but to receive pouches full of official papers from the Colonial Office, and study all the statistics which came within his reach in reference to the proposed new law for tenant-right. In the meantime Mary was still living with her mother at Killaloe, and still kept herself somewhat aloof from the man she loved.
Thus tenant-right, which Lord Palmerston had dismissed with epigrammatic flippancy as landlord wrong only a few years before, received the sanction of law from his own party.
And for the very simple reason, already given, that Ireland cannot have a truly Catholic Parliament, and that all the great measures which would occupy the attention of the Catholic members, in the event of their meeting at Dublin, would be shemes for the advancement of manufactures, trade, the construction of ships, tenant-right laws, etc.; all very excellent things in their way, and to which Ireland has an undoubted right, which will be strongly contested, and in the struggle for which she may again be worsted; which, even if she obtains, will not enable her to compete with England, and which, after and above all, do not correspond to the heart-beat of the nation the restoration complete and entire of the Catholic Church all over her broad land.
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