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CSO/RP/1822/451

Schedule of letters sent to the commissioner for relief of the poor and returned to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle ‘as not being within the views of this Board’: comprises applications to commissioners, mainly from western and southern counties of Ireland, for specific public works projects presented in tabular format, with column headings ‘Applicant’, ‘Date’ and ‘Subject’; subjects include application for rebuilding a church at Buttevant, County Cork, employment of poor at a marble quarry in County Galway, grant of £200 for the linen trade in County Sligo, building a school house in Kinetty, King's County [County Offaly] and request for ‘Loan of a wheelbarrow &c to repair Roads’ at Carrignavar, County Cork.

25 Jun 1822-9 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/452

Letter from Arthur French St George, Tyrone, Oranmore, County Galway, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting measure of Government aid for support of those suffering distress in the union of Kilcolgan, and it’s neighbouring district: outlines extent of local need and claims that he over ‘the last month have fed Ninety five families comprising no less than five Hundred persons’; includes letter from Thomas Taylor, clerk, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, to St George, acknowledging application for assistance which has been conveyed to the commissioner for relief of the poor in Ireland, and to indicate they will not make determination ‘until the learn the result of the meeting which is to take place tomorrow’.

3 Jun 1822-6 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/453

Petition of the farmers of the townlands of Castledooey [Castledowey], Woodhill and Doorable, County Donegal, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting intervention with judge of Grand Jury assizes for reconsideration of court fine of £40 imposed upon them in consequence of burning of house belonging to Henry McMenamy, located in Castledooey: they claim inability to meet the demand and that it was ‘procured by unjust swearing’; includes letter from HP Sheelin, Montrose, Donnybrook, County Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, with observations on case and conclusion that the accused had opportunity to appear before the Spring assizes, but having failed to do so ‘they ought now abide the consequences of their own neglect’.

24 Jun 1822-26 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/454

Letter from J Falkiner, high constable of barony of Lower Ormond, Borrisokane, County Tipperary, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, wishing to learn if a memorial from the resident magistrates of the barony would be an acceptable mode of making application for loan for relief of local poor: notes that collection of baronial taxes will press very severely ‘on the poorer classes of landholders’; with short reply on back of document by John Sealy Townsend, legal advisor.

8 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/455

Letter from Richard Baillie, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, church warden of parish of Fenagh [Fennagh], County Carlow and a major in County Carlow militia regiment, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of ‘twenty or thirty pounds’ towards employment of ‘industrious poor’ of district.

9 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/456

Petition of committee of parish of Kiltebride [Kiltubbrid], County Leitrim, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that approval be given for completion of a road, five miles in length, as means of alleviating the poor of the parish and district: claims that the immediate area contains a population of five or six hundred families ‘all of whom are very nearly in a starving situation’, signed by Joseph Johnston, chairman; John R Peyton; and James Shanly; appends certificate signed by ten members of the Central Committee for County Leitrim.

22 Jul 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/457

Letter from Henry Cussen, Galway, County Galway, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing copy of newspaper with report on means employed by John Cahill to obtain £50 from the commissioners for poor relief appointed by the Lord Lieutenant [not extant] and to notice that a shipment containing two tons of seed potatoes has arrived from the London Committee.

10 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/458

Letter from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Irish Office, London, England, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, expressing concern at report of plight of the poor in the barony of Moyarta, County Clare, and urges implementation of public works at Carrigaholt pier and on roads around Kilrush: indicates intention of seeking a larger sum from Parliament as soon as the present grant of £40,000 for alleviation of the poor is exhausted.

11 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/459

Letter from Sir John Burke, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, conveying that a sum of £30 has been distributed in aid to his poor tenants in parish of Templetoher, County Roscommon: encloses letter from Charles Kelly to Sir John Burke, Kildare Street Club, Dublin, reporting that fifty of about two hundred families who are presently tenants on his estate in Templetoher are ‘without any means of support, and in a State of Starvation, some of them begging about the Country’ and complaining of ineffective use of £50 obtained from Government by ‘Bagot’ for use in the parish: with attached resolutions of meeting of inhabitants of parishes of Kilerone and Ballinakill complaining of Bagot’s maladministration of financial aid, and declaring intention of making separate applications and managing funds by committee, signed by Kelly and Joseph Burke; also encloses letter from Owen McDermott, Coffey's Hotel, Dominick Street, Dublin, to Sir John Burke, reporting of the wretched state of the peasantry of Templetoher, who are ‘entirely subsisting on water grass, nettles and rape leaves where they are suffered to pull them’; also encloses letter from Thomas Taylor, clerk, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, to Gregory, conveying that the board [commissioners for poor relief] have determined that Bagot disburse remaining funds for use of poor of Ballinakill and that a grant of £50 be entrusted to care of Joseph Burke for use in parish of Kilerone: also refers to grants of £1,500 for Mayo and £500 for Galway, to be issued to the Archbishop of Tuam [Power le Poer Trench].

9 Jun 1822-11 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/460

Letter from Thomas P Luscombe, commissioner for relief of the poor, Dublin Castle, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, acknowledging letter and approval of Lord Lieutenant likely relating to funding of public works scheme for relief of poor: notes at top of letter ‘the [£]1000 for Cork has been ordered’.

13 Jun 1822

1822