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CSO/RP/1818/371

Letter from Charles Lindsay, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare, to Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle, indicating intent of Dean and Chapter of Christchurch, Dublin, to seek audience with the Lord Lieutenant to state case. Conveys that a copy of the Chapter Act has been forwarded to Dr JC Talbot with letter ‘stating our reasons for taking so marked a Step’.

3 Nov 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/372

Letter from Thomas Kyan, 31 Jervis Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to earlier petition requesting loan of £20 to help avert a distrainment order on his property. Makes assurance that interest would be paid on the loan and ‘as a further security I offered you the Lease of my House’.

17 Nov 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/373

Petition of governors of Knockaderry Lancasterian School, County Limerick, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making application for support in erection of new school building. Conveys that the institution in question is for education of offspring of poor families, and appeals for aid to assist ‘the Cause of these children of Woe’. Includes printed statement indicating plans for new facility to accommodate 200 children, under master John O’Callaghan, with list of subscribers.

1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/374

Letter from Thomas King, Cork Harbour, County Cork, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making application for post of county surveyor. States he has support of Lord Gort and Sir Edward O’Brien.

10 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/375

Letter from Charles Lindsay, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare, Christchurch, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, regarding submission of returns of resident and non resident clergy in diocese to Dublin Castle. Considers himself not guilty of ‘any small glaring neglect of duty’ as hinted by Gregory’s letter of 23 April, but admits previous error when documentation on residency was sent to the Irish Office in London, though a copy was subsequently sent to Dublin Castle; encloses letter from RG Greene, registrar of the Diocese of Kildare, 5 St Andrew’s Street, [Dublin], to Bishop of Kildare, confirming delivery of returns of non resident clergy for 1816 and 1817; also note from Greene to Mr Fox on same, and damp press copy reply by Fox.

25 Apr 1818- 25 Jun 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/376

Petition of Messrs James Knight and Peter D’Arcy, Galway, County Galway, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, making complaint against shopkeeper, Edward Murphy, for selling gun powder. Declares that an investigation should be conducted into legality of Murphy’s trade ‘by whose Negligence in selling gun powder, about three years ago, an unfortunate man was killed and other dreadful casualties occurred’.

6 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/377

Letter from John Galloway, secretary to Commissioners of Consolidated Fund, Board Room, 37 Sackville [O'Connell] Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, stating that an application has been made for a sum of £6,000 to fund creation of a new road from Black Horse Lane to Blanchardstown, County Dublin, subject to provision of an Act of Parliament. Emphasises that the application has met with no opposition from the Post Office or other parties, and that it has the full support of the Commissioners as ‘a work of great Public utility’. Encloses petition from Commissioners of Navan Turnpike Road to Commissioners of Consolidated Fund, expressing disgust at state of road from Black Horse Lane, in city of Dublin to Navan, County Meath, and applying for a sum of £6,000 to complete work; claims that the toll road returns a rent of £2,200 per year, an income they intend to mortgage to meet interest payments and repay the principle owed; work should commence immediately, they assert ‘in consequence of the low price of Land and cheapness of labour, at the same time it would afford immediate relief to the poor of the neighborhood’. Also encloses copy of answers provided by the Commissioners of Navan Turnpike Road to Commissioners of Consolidated Fund, covering various detail of the proposed scheme for new line of road between Black Horse Lane and Blanchardstown; names of Commissioners of Navan Turnpike Road are listed as Hans Hamilton, John Metge, Peter Locke, Henry McFarland and Reverend George O’Connor.

Aug 1817-3 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/378

Letter from James Lee, Dundalk, County Louth, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, making application for post of tidewaiter or other employment. Emphasises distress and needs of family and states ‘what money I saved is nearly exhausted’.

12 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/379

Letter from Augustus Frederick FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing petition from parishioners of Rathangan and letter from minister, William Bourne, regarding court presentment for theft on boats moored on canal. Encloses petition of parishioners of Rathangan, County Kildare, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting relief from claim of damages of £1,658.8.1½ against the parish in Court of Common Pleas; provides detail of incident in March 1817 when ‘a Lawless and Tumultuous, Mob assembled at different times, in the Town and Parish of Rathangan and committed Depredations on three Boats, bound to Dublin, laden with Provisions’, an event that was followed by legal action by owners for recovery of property. Petitioners claim that the greater part of the mob came from outside the parish and, in present economic circumstances, are unable to pay the proposed fine; document is signed by minister, church wardens and parishioners. Includes letter from William Bourne, minister of parish of Rathangan, to Duke of Leinster, stating that two writs have been placed on parish for payment of claims, one for £400 has been met with ‘great difficulty’, but they are unable to pay the second of £1,258.8.1½; urges government assistance, which might take the form of a loan, ‘the Defendants in each cause giving their security for the repayment of the money so advanced’.

10 Jan 1818- 10 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/380

Letter from William Pilsworth, inspector of gaol, Maryborough, Queen’s County [Laois], to Chief Secretary’s office, Dublin Castle, requesting removal of a lunatic prisoner to Richmond Asylum, to facilitate better distribution of inmates and to add to overall security in the institution, ‘as by the noise this poor man makes it may put the Gaoler off his Guard’. Regarding general health, he reports ‘the Prison of Maryboro’ is at this time Completely rid of the Typhus Fever that existed in it’.

17 Feb 1818

1818