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CSO/RP/SC/1825/251

Letter from Richard Martin, [MP for Galway], to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, commenting on the appointment of a friend [likely someone he has recommended for a post] to the police constabulary. Indicates his friend, called Forsaith, is now living in County Tipperary and suggests he will serve in the barony of Ballinahinch [Ballynahinch], in County Galway.

22 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/252

Letter from Richard Martin, [MP for Galway], to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, expressing appreciation over the good wishes received [from the Chief Secretary] as to his success in the next general election. He observes it is ‘very improbable’ that himself and James Daly, MP for Galway, ‘will be opposed to each other’ in the ensuing contest.

18 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/253

Letter from Lieutenant Henry McManus, assistant military secretary, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a copy letter from Captain LH Dobbin of the Royal corps, Ballycastle, County Mayo, reporting on an attack on some revenue officials who sought to confiscate an illicit spirits still. States a revenue officer who went in pursuit of a still became detached from his party and was subsequently ‘attacked by a large concourse of people’. His assailants deprived him of a hanger [or saber] and turned the weapon against him; in attempting to extricate his assistant, Briscoe, the chief excise officer, was hit by stones thrown by the mob.

4 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/254

Letter from Lieutenant Henry McManus, assistant military secretary, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a copy letter from Lieutenant J Dennis, commander of 62nd regiment of foot, Littleton, County Tipperary, reporting on an attack and theft of arms from the Clutterbuck household on the evening of the 30th of December. Conveys that four members of an armed party went inside the dwelling and ‘fired two shots in the kitchen, and one in the parlour [soc]’. They carried away with them ‘one Firelock, one Bayonet, one powder horn, and one pouch’.

31 Dec 1824-3 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/255

Letter from Lieutenant Henry McManus, assistant military secretary, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a copy letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lindesay, commander of 39th regiment of foot, Buttevant, County Cork, concerning an account of the pursuit of a soldier by a large crowd who were assembled in a field between Charleville and Buttevant. As regards the account, he expresses some reservations over its authenticity and is of opinion it is ‘much exaggerated’. He encloses a copy of the statement by Hugh Perry, corporal, 23rd Welsh fusiliers, alleging he encountered a crowd of between 100 and 200 persons on the evening of the 3rd of December while on route from Charleville to Buttevant. His identity as a soldier having been discovered, he states, he was forced to retreat on foot to the safety of ‘Halfway House’; sworn before Samuel Maxwell, a magistrate of County Cork.

1 Jan 1825-3 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/256

Letter from Edward McNaughton [Macnaghten], [magistrate], Beardiville, County Antrim, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing his approval for the appointment of Mr Boyd of Ballycastle to the post of police magistrate [or inspector of constables] in the constabulary of County Antrim. Indicates he has heard the government have Boyd in consideration for the position and affirms the subject is ‘well qualified’ to hold such a post.

2 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/257

Letter from RJE Mooney, magistrate, Doon, near Moate, County Westmeath, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking the determination of government on the case of Joseph Connor who is accused of passing base coin. He notes the suspect is at present in the custody of the police constabulary at Ballycumber, King's County [County Offaly]. Refers to an enclosed copy statement on his case by the magistrates at petty sessions [not present] and wishes to learn if Connor can be offered bail.

30 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/258

Letter from [Reverend] J McClenahan, [magistrate], Randalstown, County Antrim, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting conveyance of a copy of the ‘Hue and Cry’ [Hue and Cry and Police Gazette] for personal use. The reason for his request, he states, is the local presence of ‘a number of strolling vagrants & strangers…whose appearance and idleness are strong symptoms of their being offenders’.

1 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/259

Letter from [Reverend] J McClenahan, [magistrate], Randalstown, County Antrim, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting conveyance of a copy of the [police] ‘Constabulary attestation’ for personal use, 3 December 1824. Also reply from Goulburn to McClenahan, asking for a more definite description of the information sough on the police, 4 December 1824. Also letter from Goulburn to McClenahan, referring him for information to the 3rd act of George IV, chapter 103, section 5, which relates to the ‘Oath required to be taken by the Sub Constables’; with reply written on base by McClenahan indicating he cannot easily obtain any statute and asking to be lent a copy of the act in question, 21; 24 December 1824.

3 Dec 1825-24 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/260

Letter from Edward Mills, magistrate, Fairymount, County Roscommon, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on a violent attack on a house in the parish of Oran, County Roscommon. Indicates the catalysis behind the incident was an attempted distress for rent on property which brought a showdown at a dwelling occupied by ‘Hannelly’ [a tenant]. Refers to an earlier confrontation between members of a mob and police constable ‘McDonnah’ [or McDonagh] and gives a detailed account of the mob’s assault upon the house at 3 o’clock in the morning. In this affray the constable sustained severe injuries as they ‘knocked him down [and] trashed him literally as if he was a sheaf of corn’. Shifting attention, he reserves particular criticism for the ‘dreadful inflammatory’ language of those who meet in an assembly in Dublin - a reference to the Catholic Association – and greatly regrets the spread of that contagion to other parishes throughout the country.

5 Dec 1825

1825