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CSO/RP/1824/931

Petition of Michael Nolan, shoemaker, Ardagh, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking an advance of £14 or £15 to aid his establishment in the city of Dublin and his later removal to America ‘to Carry on his trade’. Asserts he supplied information in connection with ‘the barbarous murder of James Buckly, the Crown Witness’ in May 1822 and gave evidence which led to the conviction of 7 men for serious crime; he claims contrary to a suggestion in court he was ‘never Sworn a Rebel or a Whiteboy’ but because of his role in the prosecution was forced to abandon his trade. Also copy of similar memorial to the Lord Lieutenant.

1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/932

Letter from Colonel Thomas Luscombe [deputy commissary general and a commissioner for relief of poor], Westport, County Mayo, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing letter from James Daly, MP for Galway, Dunsandle, County Galway, reporting on the needs of the inhabitants of the region and seeking an advance of £150 to employ the poor in road construction.

22 Jun 1824-23 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/933

Letter from John Johnston, chief constable of police, Belturbet, County Cavan, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting advice on dealing with a grievance from John Dolan who complains of being fined [by Johnston] for having a cart in the street; indicates he received the fine but did not demand it from Dolan and remarks that legal proceedings on the matter are due before the assistant barrister at sessions in Cavan. Encloses copy summons requiring appearance of Johnston as defendant and of Dolan as plaintiff before the court, with note indicating a fine of £5 10s will be imposed on the defendant for acting contrary to law. Also letter from Johnston to the Chief Secretary’s Office explaining the manner of his actions in accordance with law and the circumstances surrounding the seizure of the cart and Dolan’s immediate tender of the amount of fine. Also letter from Dolan to the Chief Secretary’s Office seeking a response to an earlier memorial making complaint over the alleged imposition of the fine by police and seeking redress. Also letter from Johnston to the Chief Secretary’s Office reporting Dolan ‘has been in the habit of keeping a cart opposite his door in the town of Belturbet to the great annoyance and danger of travellors’ and remarking on the police response. Also note from John Sealy Townsend, legal advisor to the Chief Secretary’s Office, raising a doubt over the legitimacy of police action and suggesting a further enquiry over the ‘authority’ for the seizure. Also letter from Dolan to the Chief Secretary’s Office seeking an investigation of his complaint against the police whom he claims acted unlawfully in seizing his laden cart in Belturbet and exacting a fine of 10s for its return.

28 Jun 1824-15 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/934

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police, Cashel, County Tipperary, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, conveying a copy of charges made by Margaret Cloughessy, parish of Shanagolden, against Joseph Hanna, police constable, Limerick, County Limerick, in connection with alleged improper imprisonment and violence. In the case at issue, the magistrates of petty sessions conclude that Hanna’s conduct was motivated by ‘private pique alone’ and questions his fitness for the duties of constable. Encloses letter from Godfrey Massey, magistrate, [Abbey, County Limerick], to William Smith, chief constable, Rathkeale, County Limerick, offering support for Hanna, whose past conduct he considers ‘most conspicuously correct’; also encloses certificate from Captain John Cox, magistrate, 1st rifle brigade, Shanagolden, making commendation for Hanna as a ‘zealous and active’ officer. Also letter from Smith to Willcocks considering the case against Hanna whose ‘only fault is a propensity to getting into debt’ and recommending his demotion to the rank of sub constable. Encloses affidavits from Henry McDermot, sergeant, 39th Regiment [of Foot], Edward Haugh, police constable, Charles McDonnell, John Donovan and James Cloughessy, on the case given before George Vincent, magistrate. Also encloses copy letter from Stephen Edward Rice, Mount Trenchard, Shanagolden, to Thomas Philip Vokes, police magistrate, Limerick, seeking enquiry against Hanna ‘of whom I have heard so bad a report’; encloses copy memorial from Margaret Cloughessy to Rice complaining of Hanna’s failure to pay rent on his dwelling, of his ‘Violent Character’, and seeking aid with the collection of rental arrears.

10 Jul 1823-21 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/935

Letter from Reverend Richard Daniel Falkiner, Mount Falcon [Mountfalcon], Borrisokane, County Tipperary, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, seeking to promote a renewed Church of Ireland and the spiritual reformation of Ireland, a land in which the generality of the people ‘know no more of true Religion than the brute’. Encloses letter from Falkiner to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting assistance with a crusade to eradicate ‘the source of those evils which afflict this Realm, & the only remedy for them’. Encloses printed pamphlet entitled ‘An Appeal to the Houses of Lords and Commons’ by Falkiner ‘A Clergyman of the Established Church’, printed in Dublin. Reflects on his vision to establish godliness and outlines his plan for the reformation of the Church of Ireland. Protests at the church establishment being in nature ‘an instrument of temporal power’, at its tendency to ‘split into different sects and parties’ and the practice of permitting unfit men to occupy posts in the hierarchy and pulpit. Reflects also on the ignorance of the Roman Catholic population and continues ‘The majority of Protestants are in the same sad state’; he further expresses concern at Protestant members of the church who like their Catholic counterparts ‘see the benefit of Extreme Unction’.

26 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/936

Letter from Colonel Thomas Luscombe, [deputy commissary general and a commissioner for relief of poor], [Gayfield, King’s County], to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting intervention in the alleviation of distress amongst the poor of the half barony of Ross, County Galway, and seeking attention to the issue by Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer. Encloses letter from Reverend Michael Waldron, parish priest of half barony of Ross, Cong Post Office, County Mayo, to Luscombe, seeking immediate relief and remarking on the severity of food shortages in the neighbourhood; he alludes to the consumption of bran and ‘nettles and other wild herbage’ by the poor and warns if unrelieved ‘the circumstances must be very melancholy’.

28 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/937

Letter from Lord Ventry [William Townsend Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry], Burnham, County Kerry, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, indicating he has received a number of approaches for support in connection with a forthcoming political contest in the county and expresses his desire to act in unison with the Lord Lieutenant’s views.

24 [Feb] 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/938

Letter from Reverend Lambert William Hepenstal, [Church of Ireland clergyman], 7 Clare Street, Dublin, to Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, expressing appreciation for post and requesting issue of patent in connection with his appointment to the parish of Ballymaglassan in the diocese of Meath.

22 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/939

Draft template document concerned with the payment of superannuation to police constables who have served a specific number of years in Ireland, in accordance with the stipulations of a legislative act; approved by John Sealy Townsend, legal advisor to the Chief Secretary’s Office.

30 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/940

Letter from Reverend John Bridge, [Presbyterian clergyman], Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting to learn if a grant of regium donum has yet been awarded by government ‘to the new Congregations under the care of the Synod called Seceders [Presbyterian] during this year and to what amount’.

28 Jun 1824

1824