The Catholic Rent was a subscription that was to be paid monthly to the Catholic Association in Ireland. It amounted to one penny each month. This was a tactic that was used by Daniel O'Connell from February 1824 to raise money for his campaign to gain Catholic Emancipation i.e., the right for Catholics to sit in Parliament.

References

• Kinzer, Bruce L. (2001). Englands Disgrace? J.S. Mill and the Irish Question. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-4862-5.
• Reynolds, James A. The Catholic emancipation crisis in Ireland, 1823-1829. New Haven, Yale University Press.