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CSO/RP/1818/161

Letter from Henry Conyngham, 1st marquis Conyngham, Mount Charles, County Donegal, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting investigation of complaint made by parishioners of Inniskeel, County Donegal, as to conduct of Reverend John Barrett. Encloses letter from parishioners of Inniskeel, Navin, county Donegal, to Lord Conyngham, making allegation of misappropriation of monies collected for poor of district by Barrett. Remarks only a ‘small part’ of an allocation of £40 was distributed amongst the poor and that Barrett ‘converted the said money to his own use’; they request an investigation be convened before Reverend Lord John George Beresford, Church of Ireland bishop of Raphoe, on 24 September. Signatories on letter include parish representatives ‘Scott’, ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Porter’. Annotation on back directs investigation of claim and report of proceedings to be made to bishop of Raphoe.

14 Sep 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/162

Petition of the Protestant [Church of Ireland] inhabitants of Clonmel, County Tipperary, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting application be made for a new church building as existing church accommodation is inadequate. Remarks that as a consequence of having just one church in the town, members attend ‘meetings of Dissenters at which their children are liable to imbibe notions of Religion calculated to alienate them, in process of time, from the Established Church’, supported by 118 signatures. Also cover letter from James Burke, church secretary, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stressing that the town ‘being large, populous, and of considerable importance as a place of Commerce stands much in need of a second House of Worship under the rites of the Established Church’. Draft reply by Grant on back states that ‘that the Act of the Legislature to which they refer for providing add[itional] Church room does not extend to Ireland’.

1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/163

Petition of Charles Church, Rathmines Mall, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s office, Dublin Castle, requesting an appointment from government in lieu of resignation of post three years ago. Refers to application of Mr Pole on his behalf.

30 Sep 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/164

Letter from Thomas Courtenay, Fermoy, County Cork, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting promotion to a post with greater remuneration. Retails account of health and personal difficulties that have resulted in his being brought to reduced circumstances; discusses military career and recollects that ‘In the year 1798 I received a severe wound which in a great measure deprived me of the use of my right arm’; also refers to other aspects of declining fitness and financial distress.

12 Sep 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/165

Petition of Rose Cooper, 12 Great Stanhope Street, Mayfair, London, England, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, making application for an appointment. As she has ‘opportunity of purchasing a house on advantage[ou]s terms in Dublin’ she seeks to get employment in order ‘to keep the same’.

10 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/166

2 letters from Charles Church, Rathmines Mall, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to government post. Recollects resignation from earlier post and mentions assistance afforded Mr Pole through ‘paying upwards of £60 a year out of my little means for freeholders which I gave him’; supporting letter refers to application to Stamp Office and health difficulties.

3 Jul 1818-Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/167

Petition of John Callaghan, 9 Great Britain [Parnell] Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making application for a situation. Complains that he is in a ‘Distressed state’ and has responsibilities to provide for his family and ‘Aged Parents’; also second memorial on same subject.

Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/168

Petition of Pat Carroll, police sub constable, County Tipperary, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to position of chief constable of police. Outlines past record in law enforcement especially his part in a incident under General Lee in 1810, in which an attacking party of three hundred rebels ‘who fired on him and party’ were resisted, and Carroll ‘succeeded in taking Eleven prisoners with Arms in their hands’; also of the apprehension and arrest of the person responsible for an attack on the house of Reverend Irvin Whitty, rector of Glankeane [Glenkeen]. His application is supported by Edward Wilson, chief magistrate for the baronies of Kilnamanagh and Eliogarty, County Tipperary.

20 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/169

Letter with enclosures from sheriffs of city of Cork, County Cork, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting that convicts are removed from the city gaol in accordance with a resolution of the grand jury. Encloses list of twenty one prisoners, showing age and crime committed plus extract of report from committee appointed for inspection of gaol in which a transfer of young prisoners to Dublin is recommended, for they note: ‘The number of Boys in the jail under sentence of Transportation as Vagrants from 18 down to 10 years of age is at present very large’, signed by Thomas Harrison, George Atkins, HB Westropp and Christopher Hely Hutchinson. Includes draft response stating that due to over capacity, ‘it is impossible to accommodate’ at Dublin the convicts referred to by the sheriffs of the city of Cork.

19 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/170

Letter from William Cosby, Crescent, Lucan, County Dublin, to Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle, with report of his enquiry into the personage of Mrs Connor. Relays that she claims to be connected to the Irwin family of County Sligo and has solicited pecuniary assistance and availed of charity from local families; from his investigation he reveals ‘she has a son and Daughter at Leixlip pretty much grown up, all depending on what she could procure from Charity – where she is gone to in Dublin is not known’.

4 Oct 1818

1818