This fom the latter of Fr. Keegan, accusing Leitrim of abusing Women
Jim Carroll

23. An account of the alleged sexual behaviour of the third Earl
of Leitrim (William Clemence) has been provided by James Keegan,
a Catholic priest from Co Leitrim who emigrated to the USA.
Redpath’s Weekly was published in New York, and Keegan wrote for
it under the name “Pastheen Fionn”. In the issue dated 8
December 1883 he wrote as follows: “One of the motives for the
eviction of the Catholics [by Clemence] was in order for the people of other religions, or of no religion, who had fair wives and daughters and were not chary of their virtue, to be in convenient distance of the [Clemence] castle. I have never been able to make out a single case of a Catholic girl being ruined by Lord Leitrim in the county of Leitrim. To their credit be it spoken, there were Protestants - notably one man - who gave up his house and farm sooner than sacrifice his daughter to the hoary rerobate .... It is not universally true ... that his Lordship’s ‘servant girls’ were all sent off to England and America and elsewhere. No; his Lordship made exceptions; he married some of them to his Orange tenants, and when the happy men afterwards resented further familiarities and refused to live with such vile women, his Lordship evicted them”. It therefore seems that in Keegan’s opinion Clemence specialized in having sex with Protestant women and girls. We have no means of verifying
Keegan’s account.
I thank my former colleague James Heslin, now retired, for giving me a copy of Keegan’s article, cited above.
Jim Carroll