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CSO/RP/SC/1825/621

Letter from Major George Warburton, inspector general of police for Connaught, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stating there are no arrears of pay due to Thomas P Firman, chief constable of police, Ballinasloe, since he only began service as a policeman in the district in April. Returns letter from Firman to Goulburn, seeking settlement of salary arrears for a period of two months prior to April 1825.

12 Sep 1825-17 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/622

Letter from Major George Warburton, inspector general of police for Connaught, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting the district under his command is generally free from strive or annoyance. Nonetheless, he conveys, ‘some trifling outrages’ have occurred in the countryside but these were driven primarily by ‘motives of private Hostility’. In the County Clare, he notes, the ‘May Boys’ have appeared in public procession on a few occasions, but they don’t appear to represent a major threat to the peace.

18 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/623

Letter from Major George Warburton, inspector general of police for Connaught, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing letter from G Browne, Dublin, offering reflections on the complaint of Martin Jordan of Kilknock over the conduct of some police constables who assisted the sheriff’s bailiff in the barony of Clanmorris in County Mayo. [See also descriptions CSO/RP/1825/1068 and CSO/RP/SC/1825/218].

4 Sep 1825-19 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/624

Letter from Major George Warburton, inspector general of police for Connaught, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking the advice of government on the issue of providing transport for prisoners who are unable to walk. Encloses letter from Walter Molony, chief constable of police, Gort, County Galway, requesting guidance on the case of Mary Healy who was ordered from the bridewell of the town of Gort to the county gaol but no means of meeting the cost of her transfer is available. He points out Healy is unable to walk due to ‘an ulcer on one of her legs’ and now remains in the bridewell at considerable danger to her life on account of no access to medical treatment. Stresses he made application for aid to procure funds to hire a car from the bridewell keeper, the local inspector, and the local magistrate, James De Burgh Morris, all of whom refused giving any assistance.

14 Sep 1825-17 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/625

Letter from Edward Wilson, chief police magistrate of County Tipperary, Thurles, County Tipperary, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on a public affray in the town of Thurles on the 11th of September. The incident, he observes, was centred on an altercation that flared up between some constables of the police establishment and members of the lower orders. In the ensuing affray, Gabriel Prior, sub constable, was ‘dangerously wounded with stones’. Two men were charged with riot and assault and the censorship of the investigating magistrates was laid upon a number of constables for use of improper phrases or provocative language: Joseph Prior was fined £3 and Edward Ardagh was fined £1 and both ordered to different stations; and Nicholas Middleton was likewise transferred to the barony of Owney and Arra.

19 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/626

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police [Munster], Doneraile, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reflecting on a violent confrontation between the police and country people in the village of Stradbally in County Waterford on the 14th of September. Encloses letter from James Croker, chief constable of police, Dungarvan, County Waterford, reporting on the disturbance in Stradbally. During the fight, he remarks, one country person named Thomas Foley was wounded by a gunshot fired by one of the police constables. A fair held a short distance away, he conveys, provided the context for the confrontation, as the lower orders came to congregate in the village and consume intoxicating liquor. In the course of their duty in clearing the public houses, the constables came under attack and the windows of the barracks were broken. He conveys the opinion of the magistrates that the policemen ‘should be removed from their present station as soon as possible as there seems to be a bad feeling against them by the country people’, 17 September 1825. Also encloses copy of the investigation by local magistrates and depositions of the various witnesses interviewed during the enquiry, 16 September 1825. Also encloses copy statement prepared by the police of Stradbally indicating they were called upon to defuse several breaches of the peace at public houses in the village on the evening of the 14th. Having attempted to bring order to the establishment run by Patrick Cummins, they were attacked with stones and pursued to the barracks by a mob. Going outside with their arms, they claim, some shots were discharged in an attempt to disperse the rioters, [16] September 1825.

16 Sep 1825-20 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/627

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police [Munster], Doneraile, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on the condition of the district under his control. Expresses his satisfaction with the general conduct of the police officers and their overall ‘appearance and discipline’. He comments on the prevalence of peace across the whole of his jurisdiction and an apparent decline in unlawful combinations and organised crime. Pressure by landlords to recover rent arrears, however, he observes, will continue to draw stern resistance as was demonstrated in Rosegreen in County Tipperary on the estate of [Richard] Newenham of County Cork. While it is true, he concedes, that ‘some factious Riots and quarrels still continue’ at fairs or other public assemblies, on the whole they ‘are of a local nature’. Likewise in cases of contention over rent or tithe, he comments, there is ‘no general system now in existence’ of organised disturbance. Little mention either is made, he notices, of Pastorini’s prophesy or the religious anticipation that underpins that publication.

20 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/628

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police [Munster], Doneraile, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, regarding plans to provide the baronies of County Cork with a full compliment of 16 police constables. Previously the allocation of policemen to each area, he remarks, was skewed on account of the security needs of particular baronies. With the establishment of relative calm in the province, he admits of the prudence of giving each barony the number stipulated by regulation. He has consulted with Major Samson Carter, Doneraile, chief police magistrate of County Cork, on the matter, and they are in agreement with the principle of restoring the proper compliment of police to each barony.

22 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/629

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police [Munster], Cork, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying information in connection with the removal of constables from the village of Rosegreen in County Tipperary. He acknowledges a complaint from [Richard] Newenham of County Cork on the matter but states the men were removed in accordance with police regulations and his own orders. He further observes that neither Newenham nor his agent [Cuthbert] were not entitled to police protection in making a distress since they were not in possession of a magistrate’s warrant. Encloses letter from John Willcocks, chief constable of police, Cashel, County Tipperary, explaining his opposition to the use of the police ‘in the collection of rent, tithes, or Parish taxes’ and his recall of two constables left ‘in charge of the distress’ by Reverend Herbert, magistrate of County Tipperary. [See also description CSO/RP/SC/1825/307].

23 Sep 1825-24 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/630

Letter from Major George Warburton, inspector general of police for Connaught, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on the use of a police constable on the private residence of Sir Neal O’Donnell, magistrate of Newport in County Mayo. With annotation on top in the hand of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, ordering ‘This practice must be forbidden in the strongest terms’. Encloses letter from J Marshall, chief constable of police, Newport Pratt, County Mayo, stating that O’Donnell has sought the protection of the police at his house on grounds he feared an attempt on his life. He confides the murder attempt anticipated by O’Donnell exists merely ‘in his own imagination’. Also transcribes overleaf a copy of O’Donnell’s request for the presence of a single policeman at his dwelling at Newport House.

23 Sep 1825-25 Sep 1825

1825