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CSO/RP/1822/551

Letter from Dominick Browne, Castlemacgarrett, Clare, Claremorris, County Mayo, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting to learn from what source funds may be drawn for payment of the constables of County Mayo: indicates that following the passage of the Irish Constables Act the grand jury of Mayo ‘thought it unnecessary to present for any salary for the Chief constable or subconstables’; with draft reply on back.

23 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/552

Letter from Francis Barker, secretary, General Board of Health, 22 Baggot Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying in response to communication on fever in county Roscommon, ‘that mild fever prevails to some extent…but not to such a degree in point of severity as to authorise the Board to recommend any further pecuniary Grant to be made’; includes letter from Edmund Kelly, Ballymurray, County Roscommon, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial from the committee for managing the fund for relief of the inhabitants of the parishes of Kilmaine, Killinvoy, Rahara and St John, County Roscommon, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of additional funds to address the health difficulties of those with fever, and ‘to employ a medical man to attend occasionally’ to those in need, signed by 13 persons.

16 Sep 1822-26 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/553

Letter from Francis Barker, secretary, General Board of Health, 22 Baggot Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying disapproval of establishment of a lying in hospital at Tullamore as ‘such Institutions are only wanted in large Cities’: enclosing memorial from LS Dunne, medical doctor, Tullamore, King's County [County Offaly], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that the property ‘formally occupied as a magazine store’ would be utilized as a lying in hospital for the alleviation of the poor women of Tullamore.

24 Sep 1822-26 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/554

Petition of William Cahill, Immogeela, Castlemartyr, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting financial assistance as his ‘Mills were Consumed to ashes on the night of the 2nd of August’ which were ‘his only means of Support for a large helpless family’: conveys that ‘Two females who slept in the Mill for the Purpose of giving an early attention to business were nearly Scorched to death and Prizes to the value of £40 (the Property of the Poor of the neighbourhood) were entirely consumed’, signed by G Smyth, rector of Castlemartyr, and six other persons.

Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/555

Letter from Sir Nicholas Colthurst, Cork, County Cork, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting that the sloop Hero which has sailed from Gibraltar be release from quarantine; encloses certificate from Dr William Pickells, Cove, County Cork, stating that ‘none of the passengers, or, crew labours, or, has laboured under any febrile, or acute distemper’.

17 Aug 1822-19 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/556

Petition of Anna Clarke, ‘aged and indigent spinster’ to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of a stipend or pension as she is without support: refers to the military career of her father ‘who served in the Army as did most of his predecessors since King William’s time’ and states ‘he was a merchant for the space of fifty years in Dublin and bore an unblemished Character being reduced by ship wrecks and other disappointments had left five Daughters unprovided for’.

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1822

CSO/RP/1822/557

Petition of Andrew Cunningham, Athlone, County Westmeath, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of financial aid as he is without support due to the loss of his son Patrick who allegedly was murdered by ‘A Police Man Named McManus’ while conveying some furniture from the barracks to the town square ‘to be presented for Sale’: with certification of account on back of document by TS Armstrong, barrack master, Athlone.

6 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/558

Petition of Thomas Mooney, Pill Lane, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that improvements be carried out to the district around the Law Courts and Pill Lane is extended by widening: implores that the Lord Lieutenant would ‘interfere with the Wide Street Board, so as to cause them to clear away the remains of the Old Houses on the South West side of the Mass Lane; thereby affording to the inhabitants a safe and clear passage to their respective Dwellings. And to call on the Record Commissioners, or the Honorable Society of Benchers, or on both, as to your Excellency’s wisdom will seem meet, to fix on some plan for the Insulation of the Law Courts, and the improvement of the Surrounding Neighbourhood – and finally to order the Wide Street Board to cause a Valuation of the Neighbourhood, agreeable to said plan, so to ascertain what sum will be necessary’.

6 Sep 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1822/559

Letter from John Galloway, secretary, commissioners of the relief of trade, Board Room, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, indicating that the board has granted John Nevin, cotton manufacturer, Prosperous, County Kildare, an extension of time to meet repayments on a loan of £1,500, of which £300 was due in May and a similar sum due in June.

9 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/560

Letter from Henry Townsend, Irish Fishery Office, Dublin, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, acknowledging receipt of letter and to enquire whether returns in duplicate format sent earlier in a letter to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, will suffice for the present purposes.

19 Jun 1822

1822