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CSO/RP/1823/211

Letter from Sir Edward Smith Lees, General Post Office, Dublin, secretary to Irish Post Masters General, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting an attack on the post boy conveying mail between Kilcock, County Kildare, and Summerhill, County Meath, and the robbery of all his mail.

5 Feb 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/212

Letter from Charles Evanson, John George Newsom, William Preston White, Richard Lane, and Sir Anthony Perrier, Cork, County Cork, commissioners of new Cork jail, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, 23 January 1823, enclosing proceedings of their meeting of 23 January, resolving to apply, via Sir Nicholas Colthurst, MP for Cork city, to the Lord Lieutenant, for a sum of £6,000 for building of new jail.

23 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/213

Letter from John Barclay Alloway, Dublin, director of Dublin city public coal yards, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, stating the salaries of the employees of the public coal yards, 2 December 1822. Also letter from Alloway to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning difficulties in complying with government's request to allow 3 coal traders to survey the coal stocks in the public yards, and offer a price for them, 19 January 1823.

2 Dec 1822-19 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/214

Letter from Reverend Edward Fitzgerald Conyers, Killarney, County Kerry, Church of Ireland rector of Knockane parish, County Kerry, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, 30 January 1823, enclosing a petition addressed to the commissioners for advancing money for public works [not present], 'as I was directed to do by the present Bishop of Ferns, late of Limerick'. Requests that Goulburn present it to the commissioners.

30 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/215

Letter from Peter Bodkin Hussey, Dingle, County Kerry, magistrate, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning grand jury presentment for new line of road between Tralee and Dingle, and from Dingle over Connor Hill, and their application for financial assistance from government. Urges an answer to their application, and news of result of surveys carried out by Alexander Nimmo and John Killaly, civil engineers appointed under Public Works Loans (Ireland) Act, 25 January 1823. Also letter from Hussey to Goulburn, emphasising urgency of their application for aid under the public works legislation, 28 January 1823.

25 Jan 1823-28 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/216

Petition of Nicholas Hussey, Roscommon, County Roscommon, half pay field training department, Royal Artillery, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, renewing his application for employment under the new police act. Refers to his service in the Ordnance department, and to recommendations on his behalf from Major General George Wulff, commander of Royal Artillery in Ireland, 4 February 1823. Petition certified by George Davys, magistrate for County Roscommon [4 February 1823].

4 Feb 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/217

Letter from William Magee, Archbishop of Dublin, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning resignation of Reverend Sir John Robinson, precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and the appointment of Reverend William Robinson in his place, 24 January 1823. Also statement of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity (Christ Church), Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, reporting the resignation of Sir John Robinson, 4 February 1823. Signed and sealed by Charles Dalrymple Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare and Dean of Christ Church Cathedral. Also copy of statement of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity (Christ Church), Dublin, to Charles, Duke of Richmond, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, reporting the resignation of Reverend Charles Cobbe Beresford as chancellor of Christ Church, 20 September 1809; original signed and sealed by Charles Dalrymple Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare and Dean of Christ Church Cathedral.

4 Feb 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/218

Letter from John Toler, Lord Norbury, Lord Chief Justice of Irish Court of Common Pleas, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to his previous letter reporting problem of illicit distillation in Roscrea, County Tipperary, and reporting a new problem concerning the school master at Roscrea. Concerns the actions of local parish priest in preventing Catholic children from attending the school, 20 January 1823. Encloses copy of letter from J O'Shaughnessy, parish priest of Roscrea, to Mr Atkinson, master of Roscrea school, stating that he will be forced to withdraw Catholic pupils from the school, if the Old and New Testaments continue to be used in their instruction, 24 April 1822 [copy of letter forwarded by Atkinson to Norbury].

24 Apr 1822-20 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/219

Letter from Rear Admiral John Colville, 9th Lord Colville of Culross, Cork harbour, naval commander in chief of His Majesty's ships on Irish station, onboard HMS 'Semiramis', Cork harbour, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, acknowledging receipt of Gregory's letter containing information concerning an American smuggling schooner.

3 Feb 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/220

Letter from Thomas Elrington, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, Bishop's palace, Ferns, County Wexford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning application of Reverend Edward Fitzgerald Conyers, Church of Ireland rector of Knockane parish, for relief for parish of Knockane. Also concerning the sale of blankets at reduced prices, to assist the poor of Limerick city.

1 Feb 1823

1823