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Merrion and managed a significant and valuable estate. In 1816, the estate was estimated to be worth £14,000 per year and over 1,275 acres in size. Typical work for an agent included the negotiation of leases, selection of new tenants, collecting rents from existing tenants and ensuring the
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Verschoyle focused on her charities. She worked to establish a new convent using money bequeathed to her by Fitzwilliam to build a convent school and gave more from her own funds to pay for the school chaplain. She was patron of the school and invited the
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Parliament in Dublin in 1801 there were economic difficulties in the city. However, the estate value continued to rise. Verschoyle was able to convince FitzWilliam to donate land for a church in
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made rents particularly difficult to college. Though
Verschoyle had some ideas on how to adjust the leases to reduce periods when rent was almost impossible to collect, the rebellion and the
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Barbara Fagan took over the family business at some point after her mother died, certainly by 1796. The
Catholic Fagan married a Protestant merchant, Richard Verschoyle of the
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franchise rights of freeholders. This made the role an inherently political one considering the changes the country was undergoing during the late 1700s.
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