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CSO/RP/1827/1591

Letter from magistrate RJE Mooney, Doon, [County Offaly], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding memorial of the farmers and landholders of Bloomhill in the parish of Clonmacnoise, King’s County [County Offaly], to Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, seeking leniency on behalf of convict Thomas Gaffey, who was sentenced to transportation for robbery, containing 28 signatures. States that Gaffey is a ‘peaceable, Industrious, and well connected young man’. Mooney argues that ‘the Country at this moment is peaceable as possible, and that a number of Persons of the Gaffey connexion and Neighbourhood appear anxious to take the oath of allegiance’. Annotation on reverse [?by Gregory], stating ‘this is a very imprudent application’. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

15 Sep 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1592

Petition of policeman Terence Quinn, Nenagh, County Tipperary, to [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, seeking position in police force on behalf of his son John, who is 18 years of age. Claims 15 years’ service with the army, and states that his 4 brothers are currently servicing in the army. Contains 4 signatures, including that of Lord Dunalley [Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley]. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

27 Sep 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1593

Letter from John Wingrove, Bray, [County Wicklow], to [Richard] Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, outlining his plan for the employment of the poor, through the building of canals and docks.

4 Oct 1827-5 Oct 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1594

File of papers relating to 2 petitions and 4 memorials of John Buckley, Dromin, Listowel, [County Kerry], seeking an investigation into his complaint against the magistrates of Listowel, following an attack on his home by the Collins family. Addressed to a variety of recipients, including: Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant; William Lamb, Chief Secretary; William Gregory, Under Secretary; Alexander Mangin, [first clerk in civil department of Chief Secretary’s Office]; and Edward Connor, chief clerk in the military department. Also letter from magistrates John Francis Hewson and George [?Sondes], Listowel, to Lamb, informing him that upon investigation, there was not enough evidence to convict the Collins’, and that ‘we considered the whole to be a foul conspiracy principally directed against one of the Collins’s the Landlord of Buckley between whom and Buckley there had been a long scene of Litigation’.

14 Sep 1827-13 Oct 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1595

File of papers relating to memorial of Charles Corneil [also referred to as Corneal], Limerick, to [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, seeking a suitable situation so that he may support his family. States he was previously employed as a police constable in the city but was dismissed for bad conduct after the child of another policeman ‘uncautiously committed a Triffling Trespass’ in his absence, by entering and taking ‘a few apples’ from an orchard, after which the owner, Michael Frost, told Capt George Mears John Drought, [chief magistrate of police] that it was his child who had committed the offence. Also letter from Lord Dunraven [Windham Quin, 2nd Earl Dunraven and Mount Earl], Adare, [County Limerick], to unknown recipient, in support of his request, and purporting that he is ‘a man of excellent Character’. Additional letter from Drought, Police Office, Limerick, to William Lamb, Chief Secretary, outlining the circumstances of his dismissal, stating that Corneil [or Corneal] was responsible for the actions of the child as he was in his care at the time, and that Frost’s orchard was continually trespassed upon. Also contests claim made by Dunraven, stating ‘I now come to that part of Lord Dunraven’s letter which I hope I may be pardoned for saying is extremely wounding to my feelings viz. that it was thro’ a vindictive motive, he (Corneal) not having lent me a sum of £200, that I dismissed him’.

20 Sep 1827-27 Sep 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1596

Letter from Hill W Rowan, Governor of the Richmond General Penitentiary, to William Lamb, Chief Secretary, enclosing blank template of proposed form to be issued to each person committed to the prison, under an order issued by the Lord Lieutenant [Richard Wellesley] on 29 March 1827. States that if Wellesley approves, he will have the form printed for use in the prison. Annotated ‘approved’ by Wellesley. Form outlines structure and procedures of the prison, and notifies each prisoner that during their confinement, they will receive ‘such Instructions as may afford a reasonable prospect of your becoming a respectable Member of Society’.

1 Oct 1827-3 Oct 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1597

Letter from John Symes, Edenderry, [County Offaly], to William Lamb, Chief Secretary, requesting the admission of a pauper to a lunatic asylum in Dublin. States ‘her present existence is truly wretched bring confined in the ruins of an old building exposed to all the rigours of the climate without cloathing and being in dirt and filth’. Annotation on reverse states ‘there is at present no vacancy’.

24 Sep 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1598

Letter from John Sheppard, Clonmore, Enniscorthy, [County Wexford], to William Lamb, Chief Secretary, outlining his opposition to a memorial recently submitted by the catholic clergyman of Wexford Gaol on behalf of James Walsh, who was convicted of sheep stealing and sentenced to death, later commuted to transportation for life. States he was the committing magistrate in the case, and that Walsh must be made an example of in order to quell the vast numbers of sheep lately being stolen in the area. Also signed by Rev Mark Devereux.

1 Oct 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1599

Two letters from Daniel Lysaght, Church Street, Ennis, [County Clare], to William Lamb, Chief Secretary, referring to his recent communication with him relating to his claim against policeman George Clarke for an unpaid debt [see CSO/RP/1827/1536], and requesting that his name be given to the assistant barrister so that he may seek the recovery of his money through the courts.

29 Sep 1827-15 Oct 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/1600

Letter marked ‘private’ from Hill W Rowan, Governor of the Richmond General Penitentiary, to William Lamb, Chief Secretary, requesting copies of the supplementary report of the commissioners who recently conducted an inquiry at the prison into the alleged use of the ‘helmet or headpiece’ and the coexistence of protestant and catholic prisoners [see CSO/RP/1827/1484].

22 Sep 1827

1827