At the time, sympathies regarding his death were expressed in the letters page of The Irish Times, addressed to his wife. Unlike many landlords, he didn’t evict any tenants, and despite Mayo being one of the most adversely affected areas in the Famine, none of Moore’s tenants starved. On page five of The Irish Times on Saturday, February 10th, 1923, a series of photographs ran under the headline “Irish Mansions Mined and Burned”. The newspaper also featured a photography of Horace Plunkett’s burned out house in Foxrock, Co Dublin. The destruction of Irish country houses, or Big Houses, between 1919 and 1923 saw about 75 houses destroyed.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2020 06:00 UTC