Dublin Custom House Report on Smuggling from Isle of Man, October 1764
- Item sets
- Sources
- Name
- Dublin Custom House Report on Smuggling from Isle of Man, October 1764
- Description
- Official report from Dublin Custom House officials to the Lords of the Treasury detailing the smuggling trade between the Isle of Man and Ireland. Documents the methods, vessels (wherries from Rush), routes, goods smuggled (teas, brandy, tobacco, East India goods), value of seizures (~£10,000 annually), and countermeasures undertaken by Irish revenue authorities. Key evidence of the economic and security threat posed by Manx smuggling to Irish revenues.
- Date
- 20 October 1764
- Place
- Whitehaven
- Isle of Man
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Liverpool
- France
- Dublin
- Cumberland
- Lancashire
- Holland
- Type
- Financial Data
- Collection
- The Last Years of the Lordship
- Type
- Administrative Correspondence
- Date Created
- 1764-10-20
- Creator
- Dublin Custom House (Ponsonby, Bourke, Trevor, Burton)
- Audience
- The Lords of the Treasury
- Language
- English