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CSO/RP/1831/81

File of documents concerning applications from candidates to be appointed to positions in the District Lunatic Asylum in Carlow, County Carlow, now under erection; including petitions, letters of recommendation and other correspondence. Includes copy of precis listing individual applications for medical posts in the new asylum, in particular those relating to applications from Dr Stone, Mr Wainwright, Dr Davies, Dr Page, Dr Blood and Dr Nolan. Includes testimony in favour of Dr Stone signed by 15 noblemen and gentlemen of counties Carlow, Waterford and Wexford; also includes letter from Dr [W] Stone, Carlow, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking appointment as physician in the new asylum; also includes letter from Dr G Davies, 29 South Anne Street, [Dublin], for attention of the Lord Lieutenant, requesting elevation to the post of surgeon and physician at Carlow; also includes letter from Lord Belfast to [the Lord Lieutenant], recommending Dr Page as a suitable person to fill the vacancy of physician at the asylum; also includes letter from Dr Kinsella, Kilkenny, [County Kilkenny], to Antony Richard Blake, 12 York Street, Dublin, advancing the name of Dr Nolan as being suitably qualified to fill the post of physician in Carlow; also includes letter from Lord [Duncannon], London, England, in favour of Dr Briscoe; with list of certificates of character; also includes memorial from George Blood, surgeon, Montpelier Hill, Dublin, to the Lord Lieutenant outlining his qualifications and seeking appointment as surgeon in Carlow asylum.

21 Jan 1831-1 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/82

Letter from Richard S Mansergh, magistrate, Grenane [Greenan], County Tipperary, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, enclosing copy of a handbill advertising a ‘Reform Meeting’ to be held in the Session House, Tipperary town; noting also an itinerant speaker named ‘Spence’ visited the district to promote repeal of the union and requesting to learn what response should be taken by the magistracy.

19 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/83

Letter from Sir Edward Lees, secretary, General Post Office, [Dublin], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, reporting the post master of Hillsboro [Hillsborough, County Down] has signalled his desire to resign on 5 April 1831. Also letter from the Marquess Downshire [Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill], Easthampstead Park, Bracknell, Berkshire, England, to an unidentified recipient, reflecting on the resignation of Mr McConkey, deputy post master, and the appointment of a successor. Also memorandum stating the consolidation of the [Irish] post office [with the English Post Office] has not as yet taken place, and the Lord Lieutenant retains power to fill the vacancy.

1 Jan 1831-4 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/84

Petition of John Lusk, parish of Magheralin, Moira, [County Armagh], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, objecting to the failure of the commissioners of the Stamp Office, Dublin, to take proceedings against a party whom, he alleges, took possession of his son’s property [value £560 in sterling] without a proper legal administration [will]; seeking the intervention of government to force the Stamp Office to punish the six men responsible.

2 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/85

Letter from Maj Stopford Cane, 18th Regiment [of Foot], Cork, [County Cork], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, requesting return of two double [barrelled] guns that were seized from a gunmaker’s shop in Cork city; arguing that as a military man and sportsman he has a right to hold the firearms in question. Also copy letter from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to the Police Office of Cork, concluding that Cane’s arms may be returned to him ‘unless there shall be reason for supposing that the sale of arms by him is a usual and systematic practice’.

18 Dec 1830-11 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/86

Letter from Mary Kelly, [Newbridge, County Kildare], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, complaining of a rent charge against her and seeking the intervention of government with the Court of Exchequer; states she has been employed in the stables at the Curragh and her husband was a jockey for Denis Bowes Daly, who also she claims, made a special arrangement for her pay and accommodation. Also letter from Kelly, [Kilcullen, County Kildare], to Paget, complaining of the action of John Hunter who brought a law suit against her for non-payment of rent; recalls the history of her accommodation and the stables and requesting the extension of assistance.

[18] Jan 1831-23 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/87

Letter from William Handcock, 2nd baron Castlemaine, Palace of Tuam, County Galway, to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, reporting that the inhabitants of the western part of County Westmeath are refusing to take ‘Protestant Land’ because of the ‘approaching Revolution’; referring also to a recent transaction by his agent with a Roman Catholic purchaser.

27 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/88

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, calling attention to a local crisis in certain towns of County Limerick over the value and utility of paper money. Enclosing letter from [William Smith], Sub-inspector, Rathkeale, to Miller, reporting on an outbreak of uncertainty as to the value of bank notes in his locality, a matter that saw some workmen discharged from their employment; the matter was resolved, however, by the release of handbills signed by various local gentlemen indicating their willingness to ‘take the Notes of both Banks’ as valid and acceptable payment. Also note expressing the approval of Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, at the ‘spirit[ed] and judicious proceedings of the Gentry of Limerick’.

23 Jan 1831-26 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/89

Letter from [G] White, Patricks Hill, Cork, [County Cork], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, explaining why he issued a summons against Robert Walsh. Letter from [Daniel] Leahy, [magistrate], Cork, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, outlining the reasons why himself, Edward Morragh and Capt White issued a summons for Walsh to appear before them on a charge from John Gallagher for ‘burning land’; encloses letter from Morragh, Glanmire House, Cork, to [the Chief Secretary’s Office] stressing his understanding that there was a connection between the complainant and two of the magistrates on the panel. Also extended letter from William Ricketts Daltern, [Cork], to Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster, Fermoy, County Cork], offering a detailed explanation of the matter.

4 Jan 1831-6 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/90

Letter from William Logan, Inspector of the Four Courts Marshalsea, 13 Lower Abbey Street, [Dublin], to Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle, indicating he is familiar with Mr Dongall’s ideas respecting the curtailment of the means open to those with a view to political agitation; stressing that government has the power to control such excesses by means of the law. Also two letters from [A] Dongall, Four Courts Marshalsea, [Dublin], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, outlining his plan for establishing order and tranquillity across the Irish countryside.

14 Jan 1831-27 Jan 1831

1831