If you quote further you will ffind that he also comments on the fact that all the women servants of the household received financial gifts on his death whereas none of the men did, implying that there might be substance to the rumours
Bit selective!!
It has already been made clear that there is no solid evidence so harping on it is meaningless
The fact that the writers included him on an article regarding the sexual conduct of the landed gentry in Ireland implicates him with the rest of them - if the writers believed he was innocent they would have said so.
It is highly likely that, given his established sexual record , that he "he was preoccupied with “social life, travel and the opposite sex” and left a trail of lovers and mistresses across the continent", makes the accusations even more likely.
He was a man who liked sex, who had an invalid wife, was hated by his neighbors and fellow landlords and spent long periods living in isolated rural areas
He was brutal to his servants (some of them actually colluded in his murder by re-setting the house clocks).
Why is is so difficult to beliebe this upper-class thug didn't help himself to the daughterrrs of his tenants, using eviction as a bargaining chip ?
This fits in perfectly with the story of the girl who drowned herself rather than run the risk of becoming his servant
If you read up on the behavior of any of the landlords in this period, there is very little actual evidence of how any of them behaved
Around here, with the locals place lendlords in two categories - good one and bad ones - and anybody you ask will tell you excatly why they are remembered as they are
Jim Caarroll