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CSO/RP/1822/2568

Letter from William Brabazon, Newpark, Swinford, County Mayo, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, advancing application of ‘Ellard’, an English half pay officer, for post of chief constable of police.

26 Oct 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2587

Letter from anonymous author, Tralee, County Kerry, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, offering observations on recruitment of baronial police sub constables and warning of appointment of several men ‘not fit to hold the situation’ since these ‘were the very insurgents that Disturbed the peace of the country’.

c27 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2597

Letter from James Gillman, Dunmanway, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, casting doubt upon propriety of some local appointments under the Irish Constabulary Act; makes reference to his application for post of chief constable and warns ‘the present state of things and existing distress is a stimulus to outrage & insubordination’.

24 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2603

Letter from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to Richard Willcocks, magistrate of police, Rathkeale, County Limerick, enclosing memorial from John King, Glanely, County Wicklow, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of measure of relief or situation of employment: refers to part in prosecution of law breakers in County Limerick, his charity towards three orphan children and loss of savings through theft ‘for the only treasure was left was his bed and it is taken to be sold for the rent of a house’; includes letter from Willcocks, Cashel, County Tipperary, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, declaring no knowledge of case and asking it be referred to ‘Drought’; also includes letter from King to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, complaining of hardship and poverty and need for financial support; also includes memorial from King to Gregory, explaining plight and series of misfortune ‘his house broken and all that your Honour advanced to him plundered and taken away’.

25 Oct 1822-17 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2606

Letter from George Drought, head police constable, Limerick, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting in favour of extension of relief to David Lynch, a skilled carpenter who has been ostracised due to the ‘lawless and turbulent proceedings’ of the Union of Trades in Limerick city: encloses memorial from Lynch to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, outlining difficult circumstances arising from opposition of ‘abominable Confederacy’ and seeking post under Government or assistance with passage to London, England.

c4 Nov 1822-13 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2650

Letter from William Daniel Kelly, Turrah [Turrock], County Roscommon, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting sanction and financial support for establishment of new section of mail coach road from Athlone, County Westmeath, to Ballinasloe, County Galway, passing through the parishes of St Peters, Drum, Moore and Creagh in County Roscommon: discusses economy of proposed route and emphasises benefits in terms of imposition of law as well as provision of local employment through public works; recites opinion of the chief magistrate of police that the localities of Drum and Moore are ‘the most Disturbed parishes in the County’, and notes in respect of same they were ‘no less than 6 houses burnt, 1 woman burnt in one of these s[ai]d houses, 9 houses forcibly attacked by night & the owners flogged, besides the house of Thomas Mahon Naghten Esq[ui]re attacked & 2 men murdered…’.

20 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2659

Petition of Maurice O’Connor, Listowel, County Kerry, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making reference to assistance provided in securing prosecution of William Connor, who was sentenced to transportation and requesting post ‘in the new or old police Establishment’: includes memorial from Michael O’Connor, Listowel, to Robert Peel, Secretary of State, Home Department, London, England, requesting a situation of employment in police on grounds that he had ‘prosecuted 2 men of the name of Connor, both of Ballylongford in this County for Illegal distillation’; includes letter from Captain Robert Leslie, Tarbert House, Tarbert, County Kerry, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting that memorial of Michael O’Connor contains inaccurate information as no trace is found in records concerning the alleged conviction.

8 Sep 1822-21 Oct 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2661

Letter from John C Graves and Major Henry Charles Sirr, chief magistrates, Head Police Office, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing copy report from magistrates of third division on memorial of John Ferrall who seeks restitution for loss of mare: indicates the animal was found straying and detained by a lock keeper of the Grant Canal, and later ‘publicly sold by auction for her keep by the Marshall of Dublin’; also encloses copy affidavit from Robert Jones, lock keeper, describing circumstances surrounding discovery and detention of mare, efforts to find legal owner and cost of maintenance, taken before Peter Low, magistrate; includes memorial from Ferrall, 13 Upper Kevin Street, Dublin, to Goulburn, complaining his horse was sold without being advertised in press and seeking redress.

27 Mar 1822-28 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2703

Letter from Frederick Darley, John Graves and Major Henry Charles Sirr, chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting in favour of application from Elizabeth Powell seeking advance of relief on account of attack on and death of husband William Powell, while serving as police constable at fair of Saggard, County Dublin; returns memorial from Elizabeth Powell to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting measure of financial aid due to loss of husband and for support of infant child; also returns certificate from James Henthorn, surgeon, confirming injuries to Powell including ‘two large Wounds on the right Leg, several contusions on different Parts of his Body & an incurable Rupture of the left Groin’; also includes letter from Charles Tod, secretary, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Alderman Frederick Darley, chief magistrate, Head Office of Police, declaring that ‘Hugh Foy was killed in the execution of his duty as a patrole [sic] Constable’ and confirming authorisation for payment of £10 to widow.

1 Nov 1822-22 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2730

Letter from William Thomas Monsell, chairman, Limerick, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing resolutions of Limerick Grand Jury respecting their rejection of ‘Murphy’ who claimed he was nominated as a chief constable of police for county, on grounds he is ‘considerably above forty years of age and therefore ineligible, under the Act of Parliament’.

7 Dec 1822

1822