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CSO/RP/1830/81

Letters from Maj [George] Warburton, [Inspector General], Castlegar, [County Galway], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing letter from [M] Lynch, Chief Constable, Portumna, [County Galway], asking for leave to attend a chancery suit; Warburton confirms he will be replaced by Mr Williams and Mr Channer.

15 Jan 1830-27 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/82

Letter from Michael Landers, Dublin, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, applying for recompense after having stood crown witness in the murder case against the Wallaces, Clonmel assizes; also includes letter from William Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], to Gower, confirming details and supporting his request.

15 Dec 1829-8 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/83

File regarding the reinstatement of George tailor, former Supervisor of Works, Paving Board, Dublin, after having been suspended for four years for negligence in office. Includes correspondence between tailor, Rathmines Road, [Dublin], Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, and the Commissioners of the Paving Board; further includes letters solicited from colleagues at the Paving Board William Tassie, Acting Supervisor, and Col Geroge Morris, giving their opinion that tailor ought to be reinstated; and extract of a report by T Hall and William Deane Freeman of 1828, finding that tailor was hastily dismissed; finally includes a letter by [Gower] to the paving Board, ordering tailor’s return.

28 Feb 1828-12 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/84

Letter from Michael Lidwill, [magistrate], Thurles, [County Tipperary], to ‘my Lord’ [Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], informing him of the activities of a party of four men who intimidate and extract money from farmers for ‘rewarding the men who rid “the country of the tyrant”’; identifying the latter with the murdered Rev [John] Going, [parish of Moyaliff, County Tipperary]. His information comes from a Catholic clergyman and a local gentleman. Also includes annotation by [Gower], glad for further news on that murder.

18 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/85

File of documents regarding the insolvent debtor William Rennick Ensign, retired from 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, imprisoned in Dublin and later discharged with an order for paying his debts from his retired allowance, and his indictment against officers [] and Peter Burrows of the Insolvent Debtors’ Court [Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors], Dublin, for having changed court records to his detriment. Includes correspondence between Rennick, 23 Ransford Street, [Dublin], Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary] (with damp press copy) and William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, regarding Rennick’s allegations and his complaints about conditions in the prisons, the government’s refusal to carry out a public investigation; also between officials at Dublin Castle, William Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], and officials at the War Office, London,; further, between Sir Edward Stanley, Inspector of Prisons, William Carpenter, City Marshalsea, [Dublin], and Gregory about Rennick’s insubordination in prison. Also includes dossier of copy correspondence between the Secretary at War and the Irish Insolvent Debtors’ Court; case by Kemmis & Carmichael on behalf of the Crown, including Rennick’s indictment; an annotation by Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], stating that the Court is outside of the executive’s jurisdiction; and a letter from Robert Lukin, War Office, to Rennick, finding that because of irregularities in this case, Rennick will no longer have to pay Stg£30 to his creditors out of his allowance. Mentioning Rennick’s creditors: Theophilus Thomas Underwood, Martha Morris, William Humphreys, Charles C King, Lewis Moore, Elizabeth Long, Robert Montgomery [all Dublin].

28 Jan 1828-16 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/86

Letters from Glandine [John Toler, 1st Viscount Glandine and 1st Earl Norbury] and Maj William Miller [Inspector General], Fermoy, [County Cork], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, with Glandine complaining that a plan of building a police barracks on his land near Cashel was changed, and Miller detailing his decisions about the location, underpinning them with reports he wrote to government. Referring to the locations Glancolloo [County Tipperary], where a barracks has been built on the land of Lord Dunnally [Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley]; Upperchurch, the location of Glandine’s tenant farmer Thomas Phelan and of a number of outrages; and the Rev Armstrong whose land is most eligible for a barracks.

7 Jan 1830-18 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/87

Letter from John Barrett, Kells, [County Meath], to ‘my Lord’ [Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], complaining about the aggressive behaviour of, and calumnies by, the Archdeacon of Meath [] and his curate, Rev W Booth; enclosing a letter from Bishop [Nathaniel Alexander] of Meath, Ardbraccan, [County Meath], advising Barrett to go to court; also enclosing a reference for Barrett by Archdeacon Charles Le Poer Trench of Ardagh, Ballinasloe, County Galway.

[] Feb 1829-20 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/88

File of correspondence arising from a memorial by Henry McHugo, Camla [Camlagh, County Roscommon], previously Tuaghmaconnell [Taghmaconnell], County Roscommon, to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], asking for a position in the police, having lost his farm in consequence of an armed attack on 3 April 1829, when he killed one of the attackers, Michael Dillon. Including letters by William Channer, [Chief Constable], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Archdeacon [Le Poer] Trench, [Ballinasloe, County Galway]; from Trench to [Dublin Castle], pleading to make an exception to the rule against married men in the constabulary; and an annotation (undated) by [Dublin Castle], saying that the Lord Lieutenant will make an exception and ordering to write to Maj [George] Warburton, [Inspector General].

[April] 1829-8 May 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/89

Petition by James Madden, pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, Birr Gaol, [County Offaly], to [Hugh Percy], 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], stating his case against former employers Kean Mahoney and wife Ann (widow of John Hall, seaman in the Royal Navy), Mahoney having been sentenced to death for desertion and fraud; asking for bail. Includes annotation by Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], advising petitioner to apply to the Court of King’s Bench to be admitted to bail.

15 January 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/90

Letter from Sir John Harvey [Inspector General, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny] to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, forwarding a conviction of sub-constables Anthony Cassin and Coates Boothe [given as Cassan and Brok on that document] for irregularities, and seconding recommendations to suspend Cassin. The enclosed document is signed by four magistrates, Belmont petty sessions, King’s County [County Offaly].

12 Jan 1830-18 Jan 1830

1830