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CSO/RP/1822/301

Letter from Richard Griffith, mining engineer, Cork, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing reservation over handling of funds granted for completion of canal by the local committee of Adare, County Limerick, and to assert that no further advance should be made ‘until a Lease for ever, of the ground, at a peppercorn rent, has been granted by Lord Adare and his Tenants to the Director General of Inland Navigation, or to any other Public Board’, and in addition, that half of the monetary costs should be met by Adare and the inhabitants of the district; encloses memorial from the inhabitants of Adare to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting additional government aid of £100 towards completion of canal and asserting possession of ‘a lease of 99 years from the occupying tenant’ and receipt of ‘Lord Adare’s grant of the ground by letter’: refers also to local dearth of employment and danger to local property due to a likely shortage of winter fuel.

11 Aug 1822-19 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/302

Letter from Donal O’Brien, Cratloe [Crataloe], Limerick, County Limerick, at Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, appealing for sum of £300 to carry out repairs to section of canal from Killaloe, County Clare, to Limerick which is causing injury to adjacent lands due to overflow of waters: contends that such a project is essential for protection against flooding and would alleviate distress ‘by giving Employment to the Poor of that Neighbourhood who are Starving’.

12 Jul 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/303

Report of applications for funding for public works projects in County Clare, including, for example, a proposal from Lord Cloncurry for an ‘extension of the Grand Canal towards Roscrea’, a proposal from Lord Castlemaine for improvements to a bridge at Athlone, and a proposal from Andrew Kerin ‘for a Watercourse from the Lake of Ballyalley to the River Fergus’ plus work on various roads in the county: applications received in period 27 May to 9 July 1822, by John Killaly, civil engineer.

Jul 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/304

Letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, conveying some practical difficulties with inclusion of southern road from Ennis to Kilrush, County Clare, as public works project to alleviate poor of district: proposes instead that the northern road be the focus of attention since it’s establishment would ‘tend materially to civilise and bring under the control of the laws, a population hitherto very intractable’; includes letter from Killaly to Gregory, stressing general advantages of the northern road from Ennis to Kilrush, in preference to the southern one, which was presented by the Grand Jury of the county of Clare.

27 May 1822-29 May 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/305

Letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting that funds be advances to ‘competent persons’ to facilitate salary payments of supervisors and clerks on the public works schemes instigated for relief of poor of County Clare: asserts that he will administer remuneration to those employed ‘using the strictest economy’.

30 May 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/306

Letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing schedule of ‘Amount of Presentments granted at the Spring Assizes 1822 for the county of Clare’ indicating division of funds available for use in public works schemes and regular contingent county expenses, broken down by individual barony.

2 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/307

Letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Ennis, County Clare, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, reporting on state of public works in the county which he observes ‘cannot be carried on with spirit whilst the potato planting continues’: expresses appreciation of local gentry towards benevolence of government in providing financial aid but they request ‘a reasonable time for the repayment of the same, as from the distressed state of the Country it would be utterly impossible to levy the full amount at present’.

13 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/308

Letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, offering remarks on various applications for financial aid towards establishment of public works: considers proposal from Lord Cloncurry for an extension of the Grand Canal towards Roscrea via the Queen’s County [Laois] to Ballinasloe, County Galway, a proposal for repair of quay at Duncannon Fort, County Waterford, and establishment of asylum harbours ‘in the vicinity of our natural Fishing Grounds’.

16 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/309

Letter from Lord Cloncurry [Valentine Brown Lawless], Lyons, Celbridge, County Kildare, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, outlining proposal for extension of Grand Canal in direction of Roscrea passing through Queen’s County [Laois] to Ballinasloe, County Galway: stresses utility, economy and advantage to lower classes of introduction of such a public works scheme.

30 May 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/310

Letter from A Miller, Ennis, county Clare, to Thomas P Luscombe, commissioner for relief of the poor, Dublin Castle, conveying that consumption of oatmeal is near ‘one hundred and forty tons weekly’ and points out ‘as the distress increases, so must the supply’: indicates he has met with John Killaly, civil engineer, but is uncertain if the poor persons employed on the public works have the financial means to purchase the provisions; includes letter from Miller to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, responding to query from the Lord Lieutenant respecting use of funds for distributing relief to distressed poor and to enclose copies of baronial reports containing information on same [not extant]; also includes letter from Miller to Thomas Taylor, clerk, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, communicating ‘that £4000 have [sic] been received from the London Tavern Committee, and that meal and potatoes to the whole of that amount have already been distributed in the relief of the distressed’.

4 Jun 1822-21 Jun 1822

1822