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CSO/RP/SC/1825/651

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police [Munster], Cork, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing his concurrence with an application for an additional 7 policemen to assist in the performance of duties in the barony of Barretts, County Cork. A similar request from the barony of Barrymore, he recalls, received a positive reply from government some time back. Encloses memorial from the magistrates of the baronies of Barretts and Muskerry East, petty sessions, Blarney, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, calling for an extra 7 constables to augment those already installed in the extended district under their authority, signed by 10 magistrates. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

18 Oct 1825-21 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/652

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police [Munster], Cork, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, transmitting a letter from Mr [William] Smith, chief constable of police, Rathkeale, County Limerick, concerning the practice of night gatherings in the barony of Connello Lower [not present]. The letter in question has not been signed, he observes, but has declined returning it to avoid loss of time and to enable a timely communication, if deemed necessary by government, with Thomas Philip Vokes, the police magistrate of County Limerick.

27 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/653

Letter from Captain James Wood-Wright, magistrate and high sheriff of County Monaghan, Gola, County Monaghan, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, warning of the fatal consequences of a horse race proposed to be held near the town of Clones. This race was the scene, he recalls, of the murder of ‘a respectable Protestant yeoman’ some three years earlier. At the following assizes of Monaghan, he continues, the presiding judge, Baron James McClelland, expressed his abhorrence at the conduct of the people and publicly admonished local magistrate, Colonel Madden, for permitting the races to be held. In seeking to prevent a reoccurrence of that outrage, he asks for the assistance of the county militia as well as the constabulary to stop ‘the awful collecting of the People’ in Clones. Also affidavit from Wood-Wright, stating the horse races are to be held on the townland of Ellygash on 31st of October. Given the ‘spirit’ prevalent amongst many of the country people, he predicts a dire outcome should the race take place, sworn before Edward Richardson, magistrate of County Monaghan.

28 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/654

Letter from Major George Warburton, inspector general of police for Connaught, and Major Thomas Powell, inspector general of the Leinster constabulary, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking an audience with the Chief Secretary to discuss ‘the peculiar circumstances under which we labour’.

28 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/655

Letter from Major George Warburton, inspector general of police for Connaught, [Dublin], to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, reporting that Mr Winslow [police constable] has been installed as a replacement for a former officer [Shea] and in now doing duty in the town of Manorhamilton in County Leitrim. Also letter [handwriting not deciphered but possibly from the chief constable of Manorhamilton, Fivepoundland, County Leitrim], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, confirming that Winslow is now stationed at Manorhamilton in accordance with the orders of Warburton.

28 Oct 1825-31 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/656

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police [Munster], Cork, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reflecting on the discovery of arms in the neighbourhood of Dungarvan in County Waterford. Encloses letter from Samuel Croker, chief constable of police, Dungarvan, indicating that ’18 stand of Arms’ have been confiscated by the police in the immediate locality, chiefly taken from ‘Persons unqualified to keep them’. A proportion of these, he reports, were conveyed by a magistrate for safekeeping. Having had applications for the return of some of the weapons, he requests advice on what action to take.

29 Oct 1825-1 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/657

Letter from Major Thomas Powell, inspector general of the Leinster constabulary, Dublin, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, relaying details of a communication from the chief constable of police at Mullinavat in County Kilkenny stating a fire was discovered at the constabulary stables on the night of 30th of October 1825. Despite strenuous efforts to contain the blaze, he reports, the stables, forage stores and horses therein ‘were all consumed’. [See also description CSO/RP/SC/1825/159].

2 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/658

Letter from Lieutenant Westropp Peard Watkins, chief constable of police, Ennis, County Clare, to Mr Duncan, chief constable of police, Aughrim, County Galway, conveying certain information on the case of Bridget Cullinan who was murdered some time back. From an examination of court records, he explains, a bill of indictment was made out against Michael O’Connor and a number of other suspects at the Spring assizes of 1819. In the event, the bill against O’Connor was discarded but convictions were secured against 6 others for the crime, one of whom was acquitted. Also letter from William Clark, magistrate, Antrim, County Antrim, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, relaying details of his detention of a suspect at Carrickfergus whom is allegedly an accessory to the murder of Cullinan. Encloses copy affidavit from John Mackey of Ennis, alleging a man known as Michael Daly, now in police custody, is actually Patrick Connors, a brogue maker, who was charged with the murder of ‘Bridget Cullen or Quillen’ near Tubber on the border of counties Clare and Galway. Connors, he claims, was apprehended and charged in connection with her murder, but later absconded; sworn before Clark. [See also description CSO/RP/SC/1825/497].

26 Oct 1825-2 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/659

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Wedderburn, military secretary, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on an assault on a soldier in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone. Encloses copy letter from Lieutenant Crewe, commander, 2nd royal veteran battalion, Gortin, near Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, conveying detail of a extract of a communication from Brevet Major Milne of the 2nd royal veteran battalion, Omagh, on the incident. The private in question [Nicholas Crosby] was engaged in despatch duty, it is observed, and upon entering Omagh he was set upon by some recalcitrant members of the lower orders and ‘severely injured’. While he was attacked by a party of about 15 persons armed with sticks, three policemen on the opposite side of the street, it is stated, ‘immediately walked away without having even attempted to give him the least assistance’.

1 Nov 1825-3 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/660

Letter from Henry de La Poer Beresford, 2nd marquis of Waterford, [governor of County Waterford], Curraghmore, County Waterford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing his firm determination against sending an augmentation of troops to the town of Dungarvan in County Waterford. Refers to an application made to government to transfer the men to allegedly aid suppression of disorder in that place; he emphasises there are ‘no grounds whatever’ for the request. He asks that a copy of the petition be forwarded in order to conduct a full investigation.

4 Nov 1825

1825