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CSO/RP/1823/391

Petition of Margaret Hutchinson, Fermoy, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting government support. Refers to the death of her husband, and her unsuccessful application to obtain his former job in stamp office of Fermoy.

13 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/392

File of papers relating to funding for proposed construction of a new stone bridge over the River Blackwater at Cappoquin, County Waterford; details protracted negotiations concerning the provision of funds for the work, in particular, the contribution from government, from funds set aside for public works, and the contribution required by government to be raised by county grand jury presentment. File includes memorandum by Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, entitled 'Cappoquin Bridge', concerning the content of a letter dated 22 September 1823, from Goulburn to Richard Power, foreman of the County Waterford grand jury, clarifying the government's position on the sum to be provided by government for the work required. File also includes bundle of letters, copy letters, notes and a petition concerning the funding of the bridge, and described as the 'papers before Mr Goulburn when he wrote his answer in Sep[tembe]r 1823': this contains letters and copy letters from Sir Richard Keane of Cappoquin, and Sir Richard Musgrave of Tourin [Tooreen], County Waterford, magistrates; Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary; and John Galloway, secretary to the commissioners for issue of money from consolidated fund; the bundle also includes a petition of the magistrates and gentry of County Waterford, to Earl Talbot Lord Lieutenant [1821; Earl Talbot was Lord Lieutenant until December 1821], detailing the problems with the wooden bridge at Cappoquin, and requesting government support for the estimates and plans to construct a new bridge; petition signed by 52 individuals, including Sir Richard Keane; also the report of John Killaly and Alexander Nimmo, civil engineers appointed under the public works legislation, stating their opinion on the proposed bridge at Cappoquin and the new road from there to Lismore, County Waterford; report signed and sealed by Killaly and Nimmo, 28 June 1821. File also includes letter from Musgrave, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 14 February 1823, emphasising the dangerous state of the old wooden bridge, and urging government funds for its repair, 14 February [1824]; encloses petition of the inhabitants of Cappoquin, emphasising the importance of the bridge as a means of access and communication, and emphasising that the current wooden bridge is dangerous and almost impassable; petition signed by 42 inhabitants 12 February 1824; encloses, as proof of their assertion, a certificate by Thomas Dennehy, coroner for Cappoquin, County Waterford, concerning death of individual named Patrick Leahy, due to a fall from the bridge, 14 February 1824. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

[1821]-14 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1823/393

Letter from the freeholders of County Antrim, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting that he submit the enclosed petition to the Lord Lieutenant [petition not present; annotation indicates that it was forwarded to Baron McClelland for his opinion; [subject of petition unknown]. Letter contains names of 8 freeholders capable of providing the necessary evidence on the matter. [Letter postmarked 10 March 1823].

[10 Mar 1823]

1823

CSO/RP/1823/394

Letter from William Thomas Monsell, Limerick, magistrate and foreman of County Limerick grand jury, to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, 12 march 1823, enclosing resolutions of the grand jury, unanimously agreed to at spring assizes 1823. Resolution requests government to allow the Insurrection Act to continue, and emphasises the important role it has played in suppressing disturbance and outrage in the county.

12 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/395

File of papers relating to applications of Robert Fraser for government patronage and employment, in particular, concerning his proposal to undertake a survey of Irish coast, for the improvement and development of the coast and the creation of employment via fisheries. Includes letter from Lord Audley, Nicholas P Leader, Henry Grattan, and Walter Glascock, committee of the Royal Dublin Society, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, in support of Fraser's knowledge on the subject of the Irish fisheries, and recommending that government employ Fraser to undertake a statistical survey of the sea coast, [August 1822]; annotation on reverse, of notes made by Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, respecting the content of a letter of reply, with annotation by Wellesley indicating his approval.

21 Sep 1821-25 Oct 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/396

Petition of Margaret McCausland, Sarah McCausland, Elizabeth McCausland, Helen McCausland, and William McCausland, of Derryvore, Portadown, County Armagh, children of late Colin McCausland, addressed 'To The Secretary for the payment of the Concordatum or Queens [sic] Bounty Fund', referring to their father's military service, and requesting government relief, as they are 'orphans… having no friends capable of rendering them any assistance'.

5 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/397

Letter from Samuel Hill, Kinnegad, County Westmeath, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, referring to the findings of Major O'Donoghue's investigation [Major Daniel O'Donohgue, chief police magistrate for counties Westmeath and Meath] of a case involving Hill, and complaining of the tyrannical conduct of Mr Osborne, police chief constable. Case concerns books lent to Hill by Reverend Mr Noble.

6 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/398

Letter from Dr John Peebles, 8 Dominick Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary for Ireland, London, England, 16 February 1823, enclosing petition of Peebles to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle. Refers to his work as a Dublin physician for the House of Industry during the former fever epidemic, and requests government employment, 15 February 1823.

15 Feb 1823-16 Feb 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/399

Letter from Charles Evanson junior, Cork, director of public coal yards of Cork city, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning his efforts to fulfil the government's instruction to dispose of the stocks of coal in the public yards, 20 February 1823. Also letter from Sir Charles William Flint, Irish Office, London, resident under secretary of Irish Office, to Gregory, conveying the opinion of Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, on the matter of the closure of the yards, 10 March 1823.

20 Feb 1823-10 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/400

Petition of George Bradshaw, Thurles, County Tipperary, surgeon, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting remuneration for his treatment of a female patient, Mary Ryan, 'wantonly and barbarously attacked on the high road between Thurles and Templemore'.

10 Mar 1823

1823