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CSO/RP/OR/1831/1511

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Galway, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on a controversial public meeting in the town of Galway; lamenting that the event in question, held in the court house on Sunday 14th, was conducted in a spirit of dishonour and with ‘violent language’; enclosing original printed handbill of the meeting headed ‘Disbandment of the Orange Yeomanry’; also includes detailed report of the meeting in question, written by [J Grant], clerk to Warburton.

14 Aug 1831-15 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1512

Letter from Maj James Tandy, [acting inspector general of police], Millbank House, Naas, [County Kildare], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting the capture of Darby Cane who was one of those who ‘put out the eyes of two valuable Horses’ belonging to John Watson of Ballidarton [Ballydarton], County Carlow, on the night of the 31st of July; noting the offender was discovered ‘lurking’ in the lands between Naas and Ballymore Eustace.

23 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1513

Two letters from Robert Wright, Chief Constable, [Carlow] Graigue, Queen’s County [County Laois], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting the murder of a Mr Gregory of the town of Carlow [County Carlow] having been waylaid at a place between Castlecomer and Athy [County Kilkenny]; also noting the wounding of Sub-constable Edghill [Edgehill] in a separate incident by some men who had been drinking in a public house near the scene of the killing; adding that a culprit named John Rochfort was discovered at the same time and was fully identified by the dying man; also noting that some additional arrests are made are made in connection with the murder.

21 Aug 1831-26 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1514

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, commenting on the proceedings of the assizes of the town of Galway; noting that six persons were transported for Terry Alt offences, three were given death sentences, and a further two were expelled overseas for the crime of perjury; stressing the value of the latter charge since there is considerable difficulty in persuading individuals to act as crown witnesses; also conveying an impression of the words of Rev John Griffin, parish priest, who was in company with Mr Burke when an attempt was made on the latter’s life, outside the town of Ballinasloe.

18 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1515

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on his protection of Peter Harrington and his family following that man’s successful prosecution of five persons for a Terry Alt attack; stating that Harrington was forced to sell his possessions and flee his house after the attack; adding that one of the offenders was sentenced ‘to be hanged’ and the others transported.

18 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1516

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing a copy warrant issued to the police by John Burke, magistrate, requesting the constabulary under Sgt Lindon make search for firearms at the village of Gerraghter, which is located north east of his residence at Tintrim in County Galway; advises that special search be made of the households of Mara, Farrel, [Tenny], Shaughnessey, [Horogan], Quick, [Morony], White, Madden and Sullivan, and ordering that any suspicious person or illicit property be brought before the magistrates.

26 Jul 1831-7 Sep 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1517

Letter from James Boyd, High Sheriff, Rosslare, County Wexford, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, asking that a strong force of cavalry and infantry be placed under his control to ensure maintenance of the peace during the upcoming ‘contested Election’; stressing that such will be required to protect the lives of those seeking to cast their vote.

13 Sep 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1518

File of reports and documents on the state of the country compiled by Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], and forwarded to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary. Includes letter from Warburton to Gosset, reporting the murder of a steward employed by Rev [David] Seymour at Lismany [Lismanny]; noting that in the past both employee and employer received threatening notices from the Terry Alts; also remarking that across the countryside ‘crime is taking very deep roots’. Includes letter from Warburton to Gosset, commenting on the harmful effects of ‘country dances’ as seedbeds for sedition and outrage; asking for the advice of the law officers of the crown if such occasions can be prohibited; also complaining of the corrupt influence of travelling ballad singers and enclosing song sheet with title ‘Galway Transports’ lamenting at the ‘false informers and wicked villains, who sent them from their native home’. Also enclosing various extracts from the chief constables reports on the state of the country in counties Mayo, Sligo, Galway, Clare, Leitrim and Roscommon: detailing various types of outrages such as levelling of houses, walls and a bridge, arson, murder, houghing of animals, destruction of [tithe] crops, unlawful swearing, assault, theft, intimidation of labourers, plunder of arms, hurling affrays and posting of threatening notices.

2 Sep 1831-27 Sep 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1519

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, suggesting that a sum of between £10 and £12 be submitted to a crown prosecutor named [Peter] Harrington to enable his temporary removal to the town of Athlone [County Westmeath]; making reference to a communication with Capt [William Le Poer] Trench, magistrate, who advises the timely apprehension of an offender in the case who is still at large; remarking that the crown witness can be called upon again to prosecute in the spring assizes, after which he may proceed to America.

22 Sep 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1520

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing a statement of outrages committed in the province of Connaught during the month of August 1831, covering counties Mayo, Sligo, Galway, Clare, Leitrim and Roscommon: detailing various types of outrages such as rape, arson, intimidation of labourers, levelling of houses and walls, injury to livestock, assault, murder, abduction, unlawful assembly, injury to crops, damage to the Grand Canal and posting of threatening notices; also table with summary of outrages.

Sep 1831

1831