2'>'i S. V. 125., May 22. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



423 



More O'Ferrall ; Nangle ; Wolfe ; NevlU ; Wogan 

 Browne; Annesley; Conolly; Archbold ; Powell; 

 Southwell ; Eustace ; Barton ; O'Kelly ; Grat- 

 tan ; Colthurst ; Dobbs ; Wolstenholme, &c. 



I shall give E. D. some particulars respecting 

 the more ancient proprietors of the soil. 



1st. The Duke of Leinster. The castles of 

 Maynooth and Kilteel belonged to the Earls of 

 Kildare at a remote period, and the family estates 

 are very extensive and valuable. 



2nd. Earl Fitzwilliam possesses the estate 

 which was acquired [?] by the Earl of Strafford 

 during his government of Ireland. The ruins of 

 his unfinished palace are close to the town of 

 Naas, near which this property is situated. 



3rd. Lord Cloncurry. This estate was pur- 

 chased from the family of Aylmer of Lyons in this 

 county, who resided there, and is one of great 

 antiquity. 



4th. Baron de Kobeck acquired the estate 

 through an intermarriage with one of the Fitz- 

 Patrick family. (See Earls of Upper Ossory.) 



5th. Sir Gerald Aylmer, of Donadea Castle. 

 This family is the same as that of Aylmer of 

 Lyons, though I understand that it is the younger 

 branch. 



6th. Sir Capel Molyneux inherits the estate of 

 the Viscounts Allen, now extinct. The property 

 is situated in the Barony of Cornwall, and near 

 Newbridge. 



7th. Sir AVm. Hort. An estate and residence 

 near the town of Kilcock. There are ruins of 

 some antiquity. 



8th. The family of Latouche possess large es- 

 tates. They are of French Huguenot extrac- 

 tion. Their fine estates were part of the great 

 Eustace property, and are a comparatively recent 

 purchase. 



9th. Mrs. Mansfield is daughter of the late P. 

 Lattin, Esq., of Morristown Lattin in this 

 county, and the family Lattin estates have been 

 held in unbroken successioii from the days of 

 King John. Mrs. Mansfield is the only sur- 

 viving representative of the Lattin family. 



10th. G. L. Mansfield, eldest son of Mrs. Mans- 

 field, is the owner of a portion of the Eustace 

 estates by descent, his direct ancestor having 

 intermarried into this family. Mr. Mansfield is 

 also heir to the Lattin estates before mentioned. 



11. Archbold is an old Kildare family residing 

 near Ballitore. I do not know the date of their 

 first settlement. 



12. Colthurst represents the Vesey property, 

 whicli he inherits from his mother. 



13. De Burgh is of the family of Lord Downes. 

 They are of some antiquity in this county. 



14. Eustace. This family is of the greatest 

 antiquity in this county. Their estates, which 

 had not passed into other county families by mar- 

 riage, were forfeited 1586. They were Viscounts 



Baltinglas. (See Peerages Claimed.) The town 

 of Ballymore-Eustace derives its name from this 

 family. Harristown and Castlemartin were their 

 principal residences. Litfbt. 



Consult Thomas Irving Bawson's Statistical 

 Survey of the County of Clare. Dublin, 1807. 



Anon. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORBESPONDENCB. 



Important Discovery in Photography. — The great atten- 

 tion paid in " N. & Q." to all that regards Photography 

 induces me to bring before you what T think must be 

 regarded as the crowning discovery in the printing pro- 

 cess, viz. Direct Printing in Carbon. This has just been 

 achieved by Mr. Pouncey of Dorchester, to the complete 

 satisfaction of that distinguished amateur Mr. Sutton of 

 Guernsey, Editor of Pkotographic Notes, who has, I be- 

 lieve, brouglit the matter under the notice of the Prince 

 Consort, through the medium of Dr. Becker, his Royal 

 Highness's Librarian. And indeed Mr. Pollock (son of 

 the Chief Justice), a leading member of the Photographic 

 Society of London, and one of " the Printing Committee " 

 of that body, whose report has been so long suspended for 

 want of this very desideratum, happening to be in Dor- 

 chester lately on circuit, induced Mr. Pouncey to go up 

 to London ; and whilst there he attended a meeting of 

 the Society, where his secret was very unceremoniously 

 bandied in discussion, although the Vice-Chairman (Mr. 

 Roger Fenton), who presided, Professor Hardwich, and 

 others, were constrained to admit that they saw the effect 

 to be as Mr. Pouncey had declared; and some of the 

 members at once pronounced it to be the very thing that 

 was wanted to render photographic impressions durable. 

 That this is really the case, and that the discover}' is un- 

 doubtedly a valuable one, may readily be guessed when 

 it is mentioned that Mr. Pouncey let out, in course of the 

 discussion, that his results were obtained by printing upon 

 a black instead of a white surface, by such agency 

 (chemical of course) that the whites were brought out, 

 even whiter than the paper, and in all the minutest gra- 

 dations of tone. In fact the Society's learned professor 

 at the meeting above referred to did not know one of 

 Mr. Pouncey's (for he can produce them in any colour) 

 from a silver plate. He proposed subjecting them to tests 

 such as would be endured by any ordinary engraving ; 

 but on Mr. Pouncey's assurance that they would certainly 

 stand any such tests, he then proposed one which it was 

 admitted an engraving would not stand, and whilst this 

 was declared in the meeting to be unfair, the conviction 

 prevalent was, that as the prints were really done in pure 

 carbon, there could be no doubt of their permanency. You 

 are well aware that in six months the best photographs we 

 now have lose their most delicate shadings ; in two years 

 comparatively fade altogether. In fact, no step whatever 

 has been successfully adopted for permanently arresting 

 these most interesting traces of art and ingenuity in 

 the style and beauty of their original production since 

 the earliest experiments of Mr. Fox Talbot! At all 

 events, I have in my possession, covered over with a tl)in 

 film of tissue-paper,' through which, until about eighteen 

 months ago, the outlines were j'et discernible, a " sun 

 picture" of "Orleans and the Loire," issued with The 

 AthencBum in 1835 or 183G ; and I onl_v question if any of 

 our silver plates would endure twenty years from the 

 present day in as great vivacity. Mr. Pouncey has, 

 therefore, in my opinion, made a most essential discovery 

 for the permanency of photography as an artistic pur- 



