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CSO/RP/1831/621

File of documents concerning an application for repair of a damaged pier at Glandore, Rosscarbery in County Cork. Includes letter from Rev J Power, parish priest, Rosscarbery, to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, referring to an earlier petition signed by almost 200 parishioners and reiterating their appeal for assistance from government to repair the pier at Glandore. Also includes letter from William Searight, secretary, Navigation Office, [11 Merrion Street, Dublin], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, noting the storm damage to the pier on the 5th of December 1830 but regretting the relevant statute does not permit advancing of funds for the maintenances of harbours. Also includes letter from Richard Griffith, civil engineer, General Survey and Valuation Office, Dublin, to Gosset, reporting he sent William Wright to inspect the damage at Glandore and he estimated it would cost £105 to carry out the necessary repairs; noting that for his trouble Wright presented a bill of expenses of £1 2s 6d.

2 Feb 1831-28 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/622

Petition of the peasantry of the parish of Tallagh, County Dublin, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, objecting to the demands and exertions of the Reilly family of Glassamuckey for payment of tithe and counter demands from Ponsonby Shaw; request legal advice on the matter for fear of monetary loss; complaining the Reilly connexion are driving and distraining cattle for payment of tithe, while Shaw is engaged in distributing printed notices warning that no tithe dues should be paid to the Reilly family on account of an on-going lawsuit, signed by 15 persons. Encloses copies of printed handbills signed by Bryan Reilly and Ponsonby Shaw [also Richard Lett].

31 May 1830-2 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/623

Letter from William Frederick Ebhardt, Chief Constable of Ballynahinch, [County Down], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, acknowledging receipt of order to settle a debt with Patrick Doyle of Newry within one month; asking that the Lord Lieutenant will rescind the order, because, as he is indebted to others, he cannot pay the whole at once; indicating his willingness to pay Doyle at the rate of £1 per month in instalments. Also additional letter from the Chief Constable to Gosset referring to his previous letter and requesting return of an enclosure.

6 Mar 1830-11 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/624

Letter from Francis Freeling, [secretary], General Post Office, [London], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, referring to a set of general instructions for the use of the new secretary of General Post Office in Dublin, Augustus Godby; adding that the Post Masters General has suspended that part of the regulations that advises a cessation of the indulgence [postage sent free of charge] given the charitable societies of Ireland. Encloses copy of the general instructions from the Post Masters General to Godby; providing information and directives under 28 different subject headings.

21 Feb 1831-8 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/625

Cover letter from George Vaughan Jackson, [County Mayo], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing copy of petition from the inhabitants of the barony of Tyrawly [Tirawley] in County Mayo, to the House of Lords and Commons, England, expressing their strongest opposition to the agitation for a repeal of the union; protesting such a measure would throw Irish society into ‘a state of rapid deterioration, civil discord, and final barbarism’.

15 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/626

Letter from William Stanley, Bandon, [County Cork], to an unnamed recipient [but likely the Chief Secretary’s Office], requesting to learn through which channel an application might be made for a position in the excise or customs.

14 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/627

Statement from Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, outlining some new arrangements for the police constabulary in Ireland; stating that Capt [George Meares] Drought is appointed as resident [stipendiary] magistrate for County Roscommon, his existing oversight of the peace preservation force in County Limerick will pass to Thomas Philips Vokes; ordering that Drought is to make application to the magistrates assembled at petty sessions [in Roscommon] for an addition of 45 constables, and that suitable applicants need be selected for entry to the service without delay; adding that Drought is to make appropriate use of the troops that have been sent to Roscommon.

[1831]

1831

CSO/RP/1831/628

Letter from James Browne, [Roman Catholic Bishop of Kilmore], Cootehill, County Cavan, to Col Alexander Sanderson [Saunderson], MP for Cavan, indicating to the best of his knowledge that no meeting for a repeal of the union will take place in the county on the 17th of March; referring to his intercourse with the parish priest of Ballyhayse [Ballyhaise] whom insists no gathering of that nature is expected, except the annual one to remember Saint Patrick; observing that the better class of the people have no appetite for such agitation although the very poor might be induced to participate; referring also to the heavy handed activity of Sir Robert Adare Hudson, who he alleges is guilty of ‘turning out in one day sixty two poor wretched families’; adding in a postscript his intention to erect a school house in the locality. Also letter from Saunderson, Castle Saunderson, [Belturbet, County Cavan], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, indicating he made application to the Bishop of Kilmore to use his influence to suppress the rumoured meeting for repeal at Ballyhaise; mentioning also he raised the issue of how government might offer relief to the destitute classes.

12 Mar 1831-16 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/629

Memorial of John Bridgeman, farmer, and Mary Bridgeman, his wife, Ballinguile, Croom, County Limerick, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, complaining of an attack on their dwelling by ‘a large party of Men armed with Swords, Guns, Blunderbusses and pistols’ and the mistreatment of Thomas Bridgeman, who was in the property at the time; protesting upon their return from the petty sessions of Ballingarry they found their house guarded by a man armed with a pitchfork, and William Casey of Gurteen inside carrying a gun; noting on subsequent visits to the house they found a band of armed men in waiting, who threatened them and refused entry; complaining that magistrates, George Massy and Richard Mason, have declined to issue warrants against those accused of the outrage and seeking redress. Also letter from Massy, Glenwilliam, Ballingarry, County Limerick, to an unnamed recipient [but likely the Chief Secretary’s Office], explaining the legal background to the case, involving a contested claim to property, and the rationale for the decision taken by the magistrates.

23 Feb 1831-13 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/630

Letter from Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Kells, [County Meath], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, requesting permission for a ‘few days’ leave of absence from formal duties to visit Dublin; also offering his services to fill the post of resident magistrate for County Kilkenny, if that post is created by government.

19 Mar 1831

1831