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CSO/RP/1820/541

Petition of John Flinter, Williamstown, Blackrock, County Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post in the police establishment. Recounts military career that includes service during the 1798 Rebellion and appeals for assistance on grounds of having a large family ‘reduced to want and Distress’.

31 Oct 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/542

Letter from M Fitzgerald, Priory, Carnarvon, Wales to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering observations respecting value of securities on loans provided by the commissioners for public works; suggests tighter regulation and validation procedures for work completed; encloses letter from John Galloway, secretary, Commissioners for the issue of money out of the Consolidated Fund, Dublin, to Fitzgerald, indicating that a total of £3,000 has been paid for use on construction of Drung road, County Kerry.

7 Nov 1820-17 Nov 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/543

Letter from W Feuge, Tyrcullen [sic; Tircullen, County Waterford] to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, highlighting plight of inhabitants of County Cork due to failure of provincial banks and stressing ‘necessity of speedy relief’; discusses ramifications of local collapse of financial institutions and offers some proposals for recovery.

14 Jun 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/466

Letter from [George] Grierson and Keane, printers, Dublin, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, communicating that one hundred copies of a ‘notice for delivering up arms’ have been sent to Major [Thomas] D’Arcy, chief magistrate, at Loughrea, County Galway.

26 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/467

Letter from Robert Garvey, 25 Clanbrassil Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of tide surveyor or other position in the revenue department.

11 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/468

Letter from Henry Gubbins, local inspector of gaols, Limerick, County Limerick, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, offering response to complaint issued by John Fitzgerald, a debtor confined in Limerick city Marshalsea; states that Fitzgerald statement is inaccurate in that he exaggerates the amount of money he owes and that his claim not to have received gaol bread is incorrect; confides that men like Fitzgerald ‘appear to me in general to make a Trade of going to Gaol. Their general plan is going in Debt for the necessaries of life, and when they get their Pension, they drink it, and all the Satisfaction they give the Creditor is, that they may put them to Gaol’. Includes memorial from Fitzgerald to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, stating his case and asking to be given the gaol food allowance.

23 Aug 1820-4 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/469

Letter from Benjamin Greene, sub sheriff, Ennis, County Clare, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, alleging that Windham Patterson, an officer in the half pay of the Clare Militia, acted in collusion with a large mob to prevent removal of livestock from farm of James Going of Bell Isle, a course of action executed in accordance with a legal writ authorizing seizure; states that ‘Patterson went off and in a few Moments after he and the Defendant Going appeared followed by a large Mob of the Country people, tenants and labourers in their Employment who forcibly rescued the Stock from me and pelted with stones the men who I brought with me as assistants’. Includes draft letter from the Chief Secretary’s Office, to Greene, declaring that Patterson ‘must be prosecuted at law for the offences mentioned’ with appended comment by John Sealy Townsend stating that a decision on further legal proceedings rests with the Attorney General.

29 Aug 1820-8 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/470

Letter from Reverend Valentine Griffith, Montrath, County Westmeath, vicar of Dunany, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, requesting permission from Board of First Fruits to delay payment of loan granted for building of church until Christmas ‘In consequence of the general distress and scarcity of money’; indicates that some capital has been raised and that the circumstances of the parish have been communicated to Dr Radcliffe during his recent visitation.

5 Oct 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/471

Petition of William Kerrigan, William Dooly, Michael Dooly, Joseph Petty, John Laff, John Gibbons, Thomas Jennings, Michael Naughton, Edmund Donohue, John Hession and Patrick Mitchell, of Castleblakney, county Galway, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting clemency from sentence of two years imprisonment in County Gaol of Galway for ‘assembling in arms by night’. Includes second petition from James Murphy, John Ryder, James Hynes, Michael Flinning, Owen Reddington, Edmund Kenny, Thomas Roch, Thady Reilly, Thomas Flinning, Mark Crishane, Pat Concannon, Thomas Murphy, Thomas Lynot or Leonard, Darby Reddington, Michael Reilly, John Donohue, Michael McGrath and Patrick Heewey, of Treglooney, Tuam, County Galway, requesting clemency from sentence of two years imprisonment in County Gaol of Galway for unlawful and armed assembly; in their defense they claim to have been ‘on the night they were arrested by the military – in protection of themselves against the Ribbonmen’ whom they claim were intent on making a visitation to the neighbourhood to swear in new members to that body.

1820-2 Mar 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/472

Petition of Thomas Gannon, Hollymount, County Mayo, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that his name be added to a list of candidates for situations of employment.

2 Nov 1820

1820