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CSO/RP/1830/171

File of correspondence about a memorial by George Stoney Barry, 25 North Great George’s Street, formerly Bellpark, County Tipperary, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, having been crown witness at the Clonmel assizes against policeman James Hodgens regarding the Borrisokane riot, and also expected to be witness after the murder of John Ryan, asking for work or remuneration; endorsed by five magistrates and seven further family members and [local people]. Includes correspondence between Barry, William Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, and Maj Samson Carter, [magistrate], Nenagh, [County Tipperary], largely supporting payment of remuneration, with the government unwilling to set a precedent by giving him a position. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

27 Jan 1830-1 March 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/172

File of correspondence between Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General [for Ulster], Holly Hill, Strabane, County Tyrone, William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, John MacLeod, Sub-Inspector and Paymaster, Cavan, [County Cavan], and Robert Cowan, late sub-constable, Cavan, County Cavan, regarding Cowan’s dismissal for drunkenness. Includes Cowan’s two petitions to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], asking for leniency and including an endorsement from thirteen magistrates, Stradone, County Cavan.

2 Feb 1830-6 May 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/173

Letter from D O’Donoghue, [magistrate], Maryborough [Portlaoise, County Laois], to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, referring to enclosed letter by Thomas Cosby, [magistrate], Stradbally Hall, [County Laois], asking to sanction his having employed Mr Phelan as assistant attorney for the Maryborough assizes; Cosby mentioning the ‘abominable Ribbon system of late so prevalent here’.

6 Jan 1830-13 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/174

Memorial by Peter Doyle, policeman, Ballysize, Blesinton [Blessington], County Wicklow, to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], asking for a position in the police for his son Alexander, and asking to rescind a decision as to his own retirement.

[1830]

1830

CSO/RP/1830/175

File of documents regarding the deployment of police on lands held by tenants of Lord Kilmaine and Edward Synge Cooper, County Mayo, ordered by magistrates at the Ballinrobe petty sessions in order to assist Rev John Ashe to collect the tithe. Includes memorial signed by 59 inhabitants of Ballincalla [Ballinchalla, County Mayo], holding land on the estates of Lord Kilmaine [John Cavendish Browne, 3rd Baron Kilmaine] and Edward Synge Cooper, County Mayo, to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], complaining about the magistrates’ use of police on 28 November 1829 in order to distrain livestock for Rev John Ashe’s tithe on land that had not been applotted because of Ashe’s interference. Also includes correspondence between the government, Maj [George] Warburton, [Inspector General], Castlegar, [County Galway], Lord Kilmaine, Rev Ashe, [Alexander] Glendenning, magistrate, Ballinrobe, Richard Blake, magistrate, Garracloon, and James Connor, tenant, Killower, Ballinrobe, with further detail about the general tranquillity of that part of the county, on how a decision on using the police was reached because of resistance by the tenants, and on the tenants’ hardship from the ‘cruel mode adopted in collecting the Tythes’ (Blake). Further including excerpts from the government’s inquiry into the events (20-21 Jan), affidavits by Walter Murphy, Killower, Patrick Loftus, Aghafadda, and Michael McManus, [Ashe’s proctor], Neal Glebe, all County Mayo, extracts from the Ballinrobe petty sessions, and a dossier of copy correspondence and affidavits. Finally, includes annotation by Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], saying it was illegal to deploy police in the recovery of tithe, except if there was forcible resistance. Besides signatures on the memorial, mentioning the tenants Honora Connor, James Connor, Patrick Rowland, Darby Connor, Patrick Conry, Edward Kelly, Anthony Connor, [Patrick] Loftus, Miles Walsh, George Rogers, Walter Murphy, James and Anne Connor, Charles [Cromie] Esq, commissioner for the parish, Thomas Kenny, petty sessions clerk, John Killeen, driver, Martin Size, labourer. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

7 Sep 1829-10 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/176

Letter from W Searight, secretary, Navigation Office, [Dublin], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], forwarding a reduced estimate for 1830, to replace one submitted in November, with detail on changes made.

15 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/177

Letter from [Church of Ireland Bishop John Powell Leslie of Elphin], [County Roscommon], to ‘my dear Sir’ [Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], promising to return the last report today; asking for directions on how to report on the clergy’s accommodation.

[15] Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/178

Two letters from Maj [George] Warburton, [Inspector General], Castlegar, [County Galway], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], regarding the legality of a fine given to constable Fraser and two sub-constables by Strokestown petty sessions for assault under the ‘assault act’ and not the ‘constabulary act’; and enclosing letter from TS Ireland, [Chief Constable], Roscommon, [County Roscommon], with detail. Also includes annotation by Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], finding the magistrates exceeded their jurisdiction.

6 Feb 1830-16 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/179

Letter from [Thomas Philips] Vokes, chief magistrate of police, Limerick, [County Limerick], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], returning a statement by Mary Ryan, Grantstown, [County Tipperary], to Gower, regarding her husband Patrick’s imprisonment for alleged participation in an assault on Rev [R] Armstrong of Clonkelly, County Tipperary, complaining of his treatment, asking his current location, and referring to Mr Mahon, Mount William, County Tipperary; Vokes saying that Ryan has been kept at a distance from his family. Also includes a note by Vokes on the dubitable character of Mahon. [See also CSO/RP/1830/184.]

4 Feb 1830-16 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/180

Letter from Maj Samson Carter, [magistrate], Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], acknowledging order to accompany freeholders of Kilmacthomas, [County Waterford] to the election, and making recommendations for deploying cavalry across the county.

20 Feb 1830

1830