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CSO/RP/1825/1271

Letter from Peter Low, chief magistrate, head office of police, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting leave of absence for a period of one month in order to accompany Colonel Fitzgibbon to County Limerick. Claims it is his only request for time away from official duties ‘since I joined this office’.

29 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1272

Letter from Thomas W Fitzgerald, barrister, 2 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the post of assistant barrister for the King’s County [County Offaly], vacated by the death of Thomas Parsons. States he has 24 years experience at the Irish Bar, 8 of which were given in the capacity of assistant to a senior master in the Court of Chancery [Mr E Westby]. Affirms his credentials for holding office may be discerned from any one of the senior law officers in Ireland, both ‘as a Lawyer and a Gentleman’. Refers to an earlier application for a similar post in the West Riding of County Cork, on back of a recommendation from the Earl of Egmont [John Perceval], following which he received a reply acknowledging his suitability for public office, 26 August 1825. Encloses letter from Goulburn, Irish Office, London, acknowledging Fitzgerald’s letter of application for a post in County Kerry. Admits he has no knowledge of the position referred to but undertakes to have it submitted to the Lord Lieutenant in the event of the vacancy being confirmed, 4 June 1825. Also copy letter from Goulburn to Fitzgerald, indicating his application for the post of assistant barrister for the King’s County has been received but has failed in its object to secure the position alluded to, 23 September 1825.

26 Aug 1825-23 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1273

Petition of the inhabitants of the parish of Doon, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to a dangerous water crossing on the way to the town of Limerick and requesting advance of a grant towards the erection of a foot bridge. Remarks upon the unsafe and treacherous river that blocks the route to the principle market and assizes town, and notes at the place commonly used to get across ‘many lives have been lost’. Observes they have been gathering subscriptions to pay for the construction of a wooden bridge over the river, but to date sufficient funds have not been raised. Signed by work superintendent George William Hodges of Glangar [Glengar] in County Tipperary.

25 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1274

Letter from John Ryan, barrister, Baggot Street, Dublin, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the post of assistant barrister for the King’s County [County Offaly], vacated by the death of Thomas Parsons. Alludes to the extent of his professional experience having been a practicing barrister in Ireland for almost 40 years. He claims a character reference as to his abilities will be supplied by the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket]. Also copy letter from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to Ryan, indicating his application for the post of assistant barrister has not met with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant.

24 Aug 1825-23 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1275

Letter from William Kemmis, crown solicitor, Treasury Chambers, Dublin Castle, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to an application for compensation from George Johnson who claims he apprehended two persons for the murder of Arthur Wolfe, Lord Kilwarden [who was killed during the 1803 rebellion, on Thomas Street, Dublin, 23 July 1803]. Encloses a petition from Johnson, a bricklayer of Stillorgan, County Dublin, to the lords of His Majesty’s Treasury, complaining of having been cheated out of the reward for the capture of murderers of Lord Kilwarden, and seeking a measure of relief or compensation. Recall on 25 July while a sergeant in the Arklow yeomanry, County Wicklow, he identified and captured, using no other weapon than the ‘spoke of a car wheel’, those guilty of the crime [McIntosh and Freeling]. After having put them in a local guard house, he alerted Abraham Coates, magistrate and lieutenant in the yeomanry of County Wicklow. But he complains Coates had the two prisoners transmitted to Dublin, and subsequently accepted a reward of £500 ‘for what he had no hand or merit in’.

2 Sep 1825-26 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1276

Petition of Ellen Dare, widow, Glin, County Limerick, [post town is Tarbert, County Kerry], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking advance of arrears of £2 1s [for rent] owed her by Ellen Walsh, a crown informer who was instrumental in the prosecution of ‘Scanlan’ and ‘Sullivan’ for murder. Acknowledges having received from John Fraunceis Fitzgerald, magistrate and 24th Knight of Glin, the sum of £1 10s and requests the outstanding balance be now paid. [See also description CSO/RP/1825/374].

28 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1277

Petition of Patrick Connell, 13 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of funds out of his annual allowance as a government informer for the support of himself and his sister’s family. Remarks he acted as crown witness against the murderers of Major Richard Going [chief police magistrate, County Limerick, who was murdered on 22 October 1821] and following his support for government took his sister’s family [from Rathkeale, County Limerick] to the city of Dublin, for reasons of protection. Refers to an earlier memorial asking that Mathew Barrington, crown solicitor [Munster circuit], be permitted to issue a payment of £30 or £40 to him, out of his annual allowance of £52. [See also description CSO/RP/1825/1074].

24 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1278

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel William Verner, Churchill, County Armagh, [post town is Dungannon, County Tyrone], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking an extension of the government proclamation for the receipt of old silver tokens. Alludes to the difficulty with the value of bank tokens which appear subject to depreciation and claims a large proportion of the lower orders have yet to come forward to participate in the currency exchange. Remarks his brother informed him that a Mr Goddard, bank agent, was obliged to employ ‘a guard of soldiers to keep the numerous applicants from forcing in’ during an exchange of currency in the city of Belfast, County Antrim.

20 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1279

Petition of Robert S Mayne, [Dublin], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking settlement of pay arrears for himself and his associates while employed as transcribers of information on Irish townlands for the survey of Ireland. Indicates they worked under the supervision of William Shaw Mason, secretary of the Records Commission, and were located for the duration of the project, from May to June 1824, at the Record Tower, Lower Castle Yard, Dublin.

[1825]

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1280

Letter from Carew Smyth, recorder of Limerick, 46 Baggot Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the post of assistant barrister for the King’s County [County Offaly], vacated by the death of Thomas Parsons. Admits to having no claim on government but in support of his application states a reference as to his ‘character & fitness’ to hold such a post can be readily had from any of the Irish judges. Also copy letter from Goulburn to Smyth, indicating his application in the competition for the post has not met with the endorsement of the Lord Lieutenant.

26 Aug 1825-23 Sep 1825

1825