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CSO/RP/1818/81

Petition of W Cahalan, Dreeny, near Skibbereen, County Cork, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post on new government works. Cites past employment on board ship ‘Sterling Castle’, as a soldier in West Carbery Infantry and in 62nd Regiment of Foot; with a family to support and being a ‘distressed, heartbroken and friendless poor man’, he appeals for assistance in finding employment.

29 Mar 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/82

Cover letter from Dr Hugh Ferguson, Cow Pock Institution, Sackville [O'Connell] Street, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing publication [not extant] relating to correspondence on vaccination. Notes that item in question was ‘alluded to in the Report of this Institution’ transmitted earlier.

10 Apr 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/83

Petition of William Robert Collis, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of deputy governor of convict depot in Cork. Desires to have his application laid before the Lord Lieutenant, ‘now that that prison is finished and about to be put into service’. Query annotated on back seeking knowledge of Collis with reply ‘Dr [Edward] Trevor does not know the writer nor ever heard of him’.

17 Apr 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/84

Letter from Francis Johnston, Architect's Office, Castle Yard, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, informing him that work on the depot for convicts in Cork has been completed by contractor, Edward Carolin. In the event that ‘any whitewashing or cleaning be necessary to the apartments made use of for sick persons’ arrangements can be made to have this carried out.

18 Apr 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/85

Letter from Jemmett Browne, High Sheriff, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, to state that the gaol is full to capacity and incapable of accommodating convicts from other counties bound for transportation to New South Wales in Australia. Refers to memorial of grand jury of Cork on subject and points to ‘danger of contagion’, Cork gaol having a total of 172 prisoners in 61 cells. As to the local management of fever patients he remarks ‘I cannot avoid observing that it appears to me extremely injurious to the public interest, that a building capable of containing (as the Depot at Cork is) from 300 to 400 prisoners, should be used for a Hospital for the very few sick at any time in the City Gaol’.

10 Apr 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/86

Petition and enclosures from Jemmett Browne, High Sheriff, County Cork, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, to request removal from Cork Gaol of convicts sent from other counties for transportation. Complains of overcrowding in prison and danger to health of inmates ‘as four or five persons are in some instances obliged to lie in a bed, not intended for more than two’; to alleviate conditions, removal of fifty two convicts is requested, perhaps to premises recently ‘provided for their Reception in the City of Cork’; also cover letter from Browne to William Gregory, Under Secretary, asking that memorial is placed before the Lord Lieutenant; letter from Browne to the Chief Secretary's Office concerning his enquiry into facilities to accommodate convalescing patients presently held in depot at Cork; he suggests that ‘a Building which stands on Ground purchased for the Erection of a City Bridewell may with little expense be rendered fit for their reception’. Includes two short notes of instruction from Gregory asking for a report and medical details of prisoners held in the depot at Cork and to direct a letter be written to Browne stating ‘it is intended to remove the convicts…to the depot at Cork’.

6 April 1818-11 April 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/87

Letter from George Grierson, to Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle, explaining that statutes were obtained from Record Tower for binding for Court of Common Pleas. When work is complete, he adds ‘I shall have them sent to the Court’. Encloses note of same date from Lord Norbury [John Toler], Court of Common Pleas, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, expressing thanks for statutes but remarking ‘we have not as yet got them’.

24 Apr 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/88

Letter from Jemmett Browne, High Sheriff, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, responding to order to provide details of prisoners held in depot of Cork and a medical statement on nature of their sickness. Makes observation that there is ‘but two sick prisoners in the Depot, one of whom is now convalescent, and as to the other prisoners confined there…they are all in good health’; notes that the number of all prisoner types is 21 plus ’14 boys ordered for Transportation as Vagrants’. Encloses certificate of Richard Maguire, Medical Attendant, Gaols of the County and City of Cork, with remarks on some of the prisoners, including sickness of convict Mary Harragan.

20 Apr 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/89

Letter from J Wilson Newsom and S Lane, City Sheriffs, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, to state by way of return that thirty-three prisoners are confined in Cork depot. Having need of the depot to contain excess prisoners from the overcrowded city gaol, they express concern that ‘some plan might be in agitation to transfer the accommodation of the Prison in question from the Sheriffs of the City to the Sheriffs of the County…if any such plan be in agitation the inconvenience to the City will be incalculable, indeed it will occasion an utter impossibility of discharging the City functions’.

25 Apr 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/90

Letter from Michael Clark, Sub-Sheriff, 47 Camden Street, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, in response to order of House of Commons for particular legal accounts of Sheriff’s Office of city of Dublin for 1814-17. Explains that to provide such detail ‘would be attended with very great inconvenience and labour to me at present’ but that upon return of Mr Mansfield to Dublin, in four or five weeks, the request could be answered with ‘most perfect and correct information’.

28 Apr 1818

1818