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CSO/RP/OR/1830/41

Letter from Thomas Bulfin, Sub-Inspector, Sligo, [County Sligo], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], reporting on the haughing of a cow belonging to Mr Upton, Barroe, [County Sligo].

6 Oct 1830-7 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/42

Three letters from Tomkins Brew, [Chief Constable and magistrate], Ennis and Miltown Malbay, [County Clare], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], mostly reporting about a vicious attack on Patrick Sheehy, his siblings Margaret and Michael Sheehy, at Lissynelan, [Lissyneillan, County Clare]; enclosing affidavits from them taken by Brew and Michael De Alton, magistrates, identifying John Flynn, Patrick Lynchy, Michael Nelan, John O’Donnell, Patrick McGrath, Michael Hanrahan, Tim Killeen, Patrick Considine, William Hogan and John Hogan, Thomas Crawford as among the mob; Brew suggesting to contact Cap McNamara of the Coast Guard to search for these, and adding that four of these named men were also charged with cutting the tongues of the Doyles at [Dromilike, County Clare]. Further reporting on an attack on the house of a certain Campbell, Kilfenora, [County Clare], as reported by Dean Stacpool, [magistrate], the theft of guns belonging to a certain Donnelly, and to a man called Wolffe, also near Lissyneillan.

1 Oct 1830-7 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/43

Two letters from Thomas Neville, [magistrate], Kilkenny, and Annamult, Thomastown, [County Kilkenny], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], and to [Sir] Garrett [Neville, magistrate?], reporting on the murder of Patrick Brennan [also Brenan] on Neville’s property in Shellumsrath [County Kilkenny], enclosing depositions given at Kilkenny before George Rothe, coroner, and a jury of twelve [all named], by Ellenor, Kitty, Mary and Peg Brennan, Mrs and John Power, John and Biddy Kennedy, with two implicating a certain Thomas Quigley. Commenting that the widow [Ellenor] and others gave depositions but not affidavits, that she had been a nurse to the family of Mayor Wheeler; people’s fear of repercussions if they stand witness. Further enclosing an unsigned memorandum stating that Patrick Brennan had occupied a house on a farm let by Neville to James Maher, but formerly let to John Quigley until he absconded, and stating that Philip Doyle, Constable apprehended Patrick Grace, one of an armed band, while another, Edmund Nowlan, escaped; after an investigation by Mr Devereux, Neville’s agent, Maj Browne, and Mr Williams, Chief Constable., they are held suspicious of Brennan’s murder. Memorandum also states that Devereux suspected that Quigley’s son and a man named Doyle and Murphy were implicated also, as they were in the murder of a certain Fitzpatrick three years ago.

5 Oct 1830-18 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/44

Letter from Tomkins Brew, [Chief Constable and magistrate], Ennis, [County Clare], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], reporting the failed abduction of the daughter of Michael Healy, Carahado [Curraghadoo, County Clare], and the arrest of one of the six intending to carry it out.

9 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/45

Letter from Thomas Bulfin, Sub-Inspector, Sligo, [County Sligo], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], reporting of the theft of guns from the houses of Patrick Feighny, Ballinconnell [Ballyconnell, County Sligo] and John McGowan, Cloonagh [County Sligo].

12 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/46

Letter from [John] Brown, Chief Constable, Drumalga Cottage, Athlone, [County Roscommon], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], reporting the burning down of farm houses belonging to Owen Lynch Esq, Woodpark Estate [County Roscommon], with the suspicion that some of his own tenantry are behind it; some of them formed a combination in the summer to pressure him into raising their wages, which he resisted.

18 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/47

Letters from [John] Brown, Chief Constable, Beagh, Athlone, [County Roscommon], and J Whittaker, Chief Constable, Ballymote, [County Sligo], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], with Brown reporting the attempted burning of houses owned by Mrs Keogh, one of them occupied by a herd named Healy, and with Whittaker detailing acts of intimidation by a Rockite group of Michael Healy, Lissmurren, [Lismerraun, County Sligo], Patrick Connor, Patrick Conroy, Michael Higgins, and Hugh Healy, also, the burning down of a house on Michael [Lergan]’s farm in [Ballydeneen, County Sligo] where tenants had been evicted and a new tenant, James Mullin had just moved in, also mentioning magistrate Cap Fenton.

27 Oct 1830-2 Nov 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/48

Letter from [Lt Gen] Sir John Byng, [Commander in Chief of the Irish army], Royal Hospital, [Kilmainham, Dublin], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], reporting of a man in a crowd at Cap Heathcote’s funeral procession to St Paul’s Church [Dublin], shouting ‘O’Connell forever’ and otherwise disrupting the event, as witnessed by Col Sir James Hope and Lieut Col Taylor.

27 Oct 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/49

Letter from Tomkins Brew, [Chief Constable and magistrate], Ennis, [County Clare], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], reporting of a seditious placard posted by Mr Thomas Steele, and replicated in the Ennis paper, enclosing a copy [not naming newspaper], and asking for advice. Also, annotation by Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], advising that any such actions are liable to prosecution.

20 Oct 1830-1 Nov 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1830/50

Letter from Tomkins Brew, [Chief Constable and magistrate], Ennis, [County Clare], to Sir Henry Hardinge, [1st Viscount Hardinge, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], reporting on further investigations into the murder of Thomas McGrath by a scythe where the suspects, John and Patrick Mulquiny have fled, also his conversation with [Michael] Hanrahan and [] Hogan who are suspects in the attack on the Sheehys. Also, investigations such as on the attack on the house of Campbell, Barony of Corcomroe, where Campbell has been bribed not to give information. Brew comments that people seem ripe for revolution; ‘every man, even such as is not able to speak a word of English, is a politician, and will talk of the revolutions on the continent…’; fearing there is a more general plan in place among them.

15 Oct 1830

1830