Donoughmore House, Palmerstown.

**XVI. - Donoughmore House, Palmerstown,

**Now the Stewart Institution for Imbeciles.

Lord Donoughmore, Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary, died in Palmerstown House on the night of Wednesday, 3rd July, 1856 He left three sons, one of whom was cornet to the 1st Life Guards. His eldest son, Lord Viscount Sundale, succeeded him in his title and estate. On the 21st of last December the Earl of Donoughmore, at the age of 26, was married, in St. Michael’s Church, Chester-square, to Miss Elena Grace. About a year ago he succeeded his father in his title. He was private secretary to the Governor of Hong Kong. Miss Grace’s father, Mr, M. P. Grace, was Mayor of New York. The celebrated “Kid-glove Yeomanry was organised by Lord Donoughmore’s father. Sir Walter Hely Hutchinson, who, at the beginning of the war, was Governor of Natal, was his uncle. Lord North’s sarcasm: “If you were to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask for the Isle of Man for a potato garden,” was directed to one of his relatives, John Hely Hutchinson. The first Hely Hutchinson was a notorious place-hunter, and Provost of Trinity College. He was called to the Bar in 1748. On marrying an heiress he added the second name to his own. He purchased the pocket borough of Gainsborough for a seat in the Irish House of Commons.

Dean Swift and Lucan Bridge.

Dean Swift, on reading an inscription on the bridge, wrote:-

Agmondesham Vesey, out of his bounty,

Built a fine bridge, at the cost of the county.

Lucan is so called because of its elm-wood; it is the place of elms. There is till an elm-wood in the district. (Leamcán = “elm-growing place.”)

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