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CSO/RP/1823/531

2 letters from Louisa Hare, Teignmouth, Devon, England, widow of late Major Hare, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary for Ireland, at Irish Office, London, and at Dublin Castle, concerning her application for government assistance for her children and emphasising her financial distress, 29 March 1823; 27 November 1823. Also letter from Hare to Goulburn, expressing thanks for her being placed on the civil list to receive an annual allowance, 16 December 1823.

29 Mar 1823-16 Dec 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/532

Letter from Thomas Higinbotham, 40 Beresford Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, 25 March 1823, enclosing letter from Colonel John Maxwell Barry, London, [MP for County Cavan and an commissioner of crown lands], to Goulburn, recommending Higinbotham for appointment to a vacant post in stamp office, Dublin, 22 March 1823.

22 Mar 1823-25 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/533

Letter from William Hyde, Bryan Smith, Richard Abernethy, and Thomas Holmes, 9 Saint Patrick's Street, Cork, County Cork, master sadlers [sic] of Cork city, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, 31 March 1823, enclosing their petition to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, concerning the 'very depressed state' of their trade, and requesting to be awarded the work for some of the sadlery [sic] required by the new police force, 31 March 1823. Petition certified by Henry Bagnell, mayor of Cork; and John Saunders and Julius Besnard, sheriffs of Cork.

31 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/534

Letter from John Finucane, apothecary to Ennistymon fever hospital, County Clare, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 17 March 1823, enclosing petition of the governors of the fever hospital, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, detailing how Wellesley's grant of money to the hospital was expended. Emphasises the demands on the hospital and requests additional financial aid. Comments that 'it being the custom with the poor in this Country to place those Unhappy persons who labour under contagious fever, in huts in gardens fields, by the roads side, and even in the streets in some places, and we regret to have to say that double as many as were received into Hospital have been unavoidably refused admittance from want of accommodation'. Petition signed by 6 governors, including Reverend Peter O'Loughlin, parish priest of Ennistymon, Ennistymon committee room, 13 March 1823. Also letter from Dr Francis Barker, General Board of Health, Dublin, secretary to the Board of Health, to Gregory, reporting, as requested, the board's opinion respecting the governors' application for aid, 2 April 1823. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

13 Mar 1823-2 Apr 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/535

File of papers relating to case of Peter Finnerty, requesting reimbursement of expenses incurred in recent legal case. Includes letter from Finnerty, 44 Bishop Street, Dublin, former store keeper and inspector of artificers with the Dublin paving board, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning information provided by Finnerty, relating to 'the gross misapplication of the public property by the paving board', and resulting in government's dismissal of Sir Charles Coote, one of the commissioners of paving. Refers to the ensuing legal case, and money expended by Finnerty on legal representation; also refers to his own subsequent dismissal, 1 April 1823. File also includes petition of Finnerty to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, detailing the history of his case and his allegations of misconduct against the commissioners of paving, and the subsequent government investigation of the charges. Renews his request for remuneration, 22 May 1824.

1 Apr 1823-22 May 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1823/536

File of papers relating to complaints of Patrick Shea concerning his dismissal from the paving board, Dublin. Includes petition of Patrick Shea, 3 Middle Mountjoy Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of the injustice of his dismissal from his post as divisional light inspector for the paving board, Dublin, by Major Alexander Taylor and Alderman Mark Bloxham, commissioners of paving; requests investigation of his case, and government relief, [7 March 1823]. Also includes letter from Taylor, Bloxham, and Thomas Newcomen Edgeworth, commissioners paving, paving house, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, responding, as requested, on the case of Shea and detailing the reasons for his dismissal, 29 March 1823.

[7 Mar 1823]-21 Apr 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/537

Letter from Francis G Morony, Miltown Malbay, County Clare, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 25 March 1823, enclosing petition of the principal gentry, landholders, and others of barony of Ibrickane, County Clare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, concerning the poor state of repair of the line of road leading from the barony of Ibrickane to the port of Kilrush, County Clare; and complaining of the rejection of presentments for road related expenditure by recent County Clare grand juries. Emphasises importance of the road to the local economy, and requests that it be repaired by government. Petition signed by 10 individuals, 24 March 1823. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

24 Mar 1823-31 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/538

Letter from Henry Yeo, custom house, Dublin, secretary to the commissioners of Howth harbour, County Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing the commissioners' opposition to plans to discontinue the services of the superintendent engineer at the works at Howth harbour; praises the work of the acting resident civil engineer, John Aird. Also rejects as 'unfounded' the assertions made in an anonymous letter concerning the works at the harbour, returning the letter in question [letter not present here; registered separately by the CSO; see CSO/RP/1823/539].

18 Mar 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/539

Letter from anonymous writer styled 'A friend to the Public', to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, condemning the expenses incurred at the works at Howth harbour, County Dublin: '…upwards of £5,000 a year which has been shamefully and unnecessarily laid out there…'. Details his estimate of the savings which could have been made.

[1822]

1822

CSO/RP/1823/540

Letter from Reverend Richard Ryan, Rathconnell glebe house, Killucan, County Westmeath, to [Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, requesting an interview with Goulburn, to offer his opinions on the proposed parliamentary bills on tithes: '..if the object is to repress the disturbances in Ireland, tithe not being the cause of those disturbances, the total removal of that charge could have no effect..', 29 March 1823. Annotation on reverse of content for letter of reply to Ryan, 1 April 1823.

29 Mar 1823-1 Apr 1823

1823