Bellevue-Birth and parentage-Valley of the Suir-School days at Kensington-Charles X.-Stonyhurst-University of Dublin-Dramatic tendencies-A fancy ball-Family reverses -Dr. William Foley.
On the left bank of the Suir, about three miles from Waterford, is situated Bellevue, the home in childhood of Richard Lalor Sheil. The estate, of which it forms a part, originally bore the name of Gurteens, and is mentioned in the Inquisitions of Leinster as belonging, in the year 1607, to one Nicholas Fitzgerald. Being forfeited in the civil wars it became the possession of Samuel Skrimshiere, one of the sol
*Temp. Jac. I. Thomastown, 16th July, 1607.