Sir Walter de la Haye or de Haye (died after 1309) was an English-born statesman and judge in Ireland of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, who served for many years as Sheriff of County Waterford and as Chief Escheator of Ireland, and briefly as Justiciar of Ireland.
He was a man of great ambition, with a passion for acquiring land, but he was also a conscientious official who was held in high regard by the English Crown, which protected him from accusations of corruption.[1] He was also accused of unduly high-handed behaviour as Escheator, in particular taking property into the King's hands for insufficient cause.[2] He became a substantial landowner in two Irish counties. He had children, but his descendants seem to have died out within a couple of generations.[3]
