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CSO/RP/1825/1

File containing applications and appeals for government aid on account of the poor potato harvest of 1823 from persons representing various parishes in counties Galway, Queen’s County [County Laois; Leix], Clare, Mayo, Tipperary, King's County [County Offaly], Kilkenny, Meath, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, Carlow, Wexford and Kildare. Applicants highlight their need for employment, the high cost of provisions, as well as the threat to public order posed by the crisis. Includes letter from Reverend Anthony Thomas, Church of Ireland rector of Ballinakill [Ballynakill], Clifden, County Galway, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to the acute distress of many of the poorer households across the region of Connemara. Explains those in greatest need ‘are totally unable to till their Gardens for want of seed and do not possess a single meal provision of any kind’. Protests at the removal of local potatoes by water to the markets of Galway and Westport and offers his services to any representative of government who wishes to investigate the matter, 12 April 1824. Also includes letter from Reverend David Walsh, Roman Catholic parish priest of Killannin, County Galway, to Colonel Thomas P Luscombe, commissioner for relief of poor, Commissariat Department, Dublin, lamenting that two-thirds of his parish ‘are in the deepest distress for both eating and sowing provisions’. Appeals for a further and immediate distribution of seed potatoes and ‘a very speedy supply of oatmeal or potatoes for eating’, 22 May 1824. Also includes memorial from the clergy and landholders of the parish of Feakle, barony of Tulla, County Clare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to the impoverished plight of ‘a considerable proportion of the people’ of the district and to recommend to government the utility of establishing a local road repair programme. Signed by Reverend John Kinahan, perpetual curate of the Church of Ireland, Thomas McInerny, Roman Catholic parish priest, B Gore, William O’Meara and Edward McGrath, 31 May 1824. Also includes letter from Reverend William Minchin, curate of the Church of Ireland union of Dunkerrin, Myrtle Lodge, Moneygall, King’s County [County Offaly], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, complaining of the dire consequences of increasing foodstuff prices and seeking advance of government aid to address local want, which if ignored, will lead to ‘disease, famine & disturbance’, 2 June 1824. Also includes memorial from the clergy, gentry and merchants of the town of New Ross, County Wexford, to Wellesley, lamenting over the deterioration of their previously prosperous town and seeking a measure of financial aid in order to avert recourse by the starving to unlawful means, signed by Charles Tottenham and 12 other persons, 3 June 1824. Also includes letter from Reverend Andrew H Martyn, Outerard [Oughterard], County Galway, [to Nicholas Malassez, assistant commissary general, Palace Street, Dublin], conveying an account of deep distress and starvation from his locality. Refers to extreme measures taken by people to eat and recounts how the flesh of two dead ponies was taken for consumption following their accidental demise by falling from a cliff top, 4 June 1824. Also includes letter from Reverend James Thomas C Saunders, curate of parish of Rathaspick, [lying in Queen’s County and County Kilkenny], Athy, County Kildare, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, reporting he has discovered 100 families in his parish ‘in extreme want of provisions’. Observes that many are surviving on a diet of weeds but none are engaged in any form of disturbance, 7 July 1824. Also includes memorial from the people of Thomondgate, County Limerick, to Wellesley, seeking response to earlier application for aid. Remark they are ‘in the greatest distress possible’ due to want of employment and the high cost of food supplies. Being unable to obtain financial resources through ordinary labour ‘they have pawned & sold their clothes’ in an attempt to supply themselves with food, [no date].

30 Mar 1824-7 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1825/2

Printed copy of booklet entitled ‘Orders, (In the Nature of Instructions) To Be Observed By the Police Establishment, Under the Superintendence Of [Major] James Tandy’, of Annefield [Annfield], Kilcullen, County Kildare, chief police magistrate for counties Carlow, Wicklow and Kildare. Orders prepared by Nicholas McDonough, chief clerk, with introduction to the chief constables from Tandy. Also contains a handwritten addendum on back page from Tandy imploring police constables and sub-constables to be ever concerned with the collection and recording of useful information in their neighborhoods. Booklet printed by William Shaw, of 105 Abbey Street, Dublin. Also printed copy of booklet entitled ‘The Standing Orders and Regulations For the Conduct and Proceedings of the Chief Constables and Other Constables of the County of [blank section not completed]’. Also contains a handwritten addendum at back directing police officers to inform their inspector general or chief magistrate if any means may be discovered of saving expenditure of public money, endorsed by the magistrates at the quarter sessions of Naas, County Kildare. Booklet printed by George and John Grierson and Martin Keene, His Majesty’s Printers, Dublin.

4 Jan 1823-12 Oct 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1825/3

Petition of Garrett B Molony, late lieutenant [53rd regiment of foot], Ennis, County Clare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking issue of a new commission in order that he might resume employment as a gauger under the Board of Revenue. Recounts earlier appointment as a supernumerary gauger in 1807 and his engagement, the following year, as a cornet in the 4th [Queen’s Own] dragoons. As a soldier, he fought under the command of the Duke of Wellington in the European campaign and served elsewhere. States he was in contact with the revenue board with a view to reinstatement as a gauger, but they demanded production of his original commission. Encloses letter from George Waller, secretary, Excise Office, Dublin, to Molony, indicating that the board are not in a position to restore him to his former post unless upon receipt of his original commission, 15 April 1818. Also encloses affidavit from Molony in which he claims to have lost his commission document and other possessions prior to the Battle of Toulouse [France] in 1814; affidavit sworn before Boyle Vandeleur, collector of excise, County Clare, 13 June 1823.

15 Apr 1818-21 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1825/4

Petition of Anne Grandy, Jane Grandy, Margaret Grandy and John Grandy, Duncannon, Arthurstown, County Wexford, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting continuation of a pension bestowed upon their mother Mary Grandy, in compensation for loss of property and in recognition of her husband’s services to the crown during the 1798 Rebellion. With certificate written on base attesting to the loyalty of Richard Grandy during the uprising of that year, signed by Reverend Thomas Hancock, [minister of Whitechurch] and countersigned by Reverend William Glascott, [Church of Ireland minister of parish of St James and Dunbrody]. Also letter from Jane Grandy to Edward I Johnston, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, conveying news of the death of her mother, Mary Grandy, and asking that some part of the pension be conveyed for the use of her family, 1823. Encloses letter from Sir Charles Saxton, Civil Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to Reverend J Kennedy, Feathard [Fethard], County Wexford, confirming the intention of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond] to grant a pension of £30 per year to the widow of Richard Grandy, 19 June 1812.

19 Jun 1812-17 Mar [1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1825/5

Note from Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, [Office of Arms, Lower Castle Gate, Dublin Castle], to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, conveying a list of peers of Ireland whose title has became extinct or are considered as being extinct, and drawing attention to the need for new creations. Points out that the deaths have taken place of Patrick Dillon, 11th Earl of Roscommon, Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie, Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, and George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine.

14 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1825/6

Opinion of R Sleater [legal agent] outlining the case for the crown to present to the church living of Castlehaven, Castletownshend, in the diocese of Cork, County Cork. Observes that the crown have enjoyed making appointments to that living ‘for the last 150 years’ but for a number of years during the eighteenth century and also in 1807, the Church of Ireland bishop assumed power to present to the parish ‘under a pretence’. Stresses the crown’s right to allocate a successor whenever the present incumbent, Reverend Morritt, has vacation, and considers the various acts of law that might be invoked in its favour. Observes that the present applicant is a blood relative of a past earl of Castlehaven [probably James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven] who was a Roman Catholic activist in the middle seventeenth century, and states the onus is upon him to prove his entitlement to the advowson.

14 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1825/7

Deed of surrender from Louisa [née Molesworth], wife of William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, of two pensions payable to her out of the civil establishment of Ireland. Indicates she received her 1st pension of £70 per annum at behest of her father, Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, issued through letters patent of King George II, in 15 January 1756; and she received her 2nd pension of £130 per annum at behest of her 1st husband, William Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby [of Imokilly], [who died 1806], issued through letters patent of King George III, on 22 December 1797. Deed signed and sealed by Louisa, Countess Fitzwilliam, and accepted on behalf of the crown by Lord Norbury [John Toler], Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas; also countersigned by Robert Wogan, deputy keeper of the rolls, High Court of Chancery in Ireland.

26 Sep 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1825/8

Letter from Richard Jebb, 2nd justice in Court of King’s Bench, Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, making recommendation for advance of a measure of financial support to the widow of Mathew Reynolds. Annotated on top in pencil in hand of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, asks ‘can anything be done for this poor woman out of the Charity fund’? Encloses memorial from widow Reynolds to Jebb, seeking recompense for herself and her 5 orphan children, following the accidental killing of her husband by William Brown, a constable in the police establishment of Major John Wills, chief police magistrate. Refers to statement by justice Daly recommending she be given compensation to care for herself and children. Memorial attested on underside by John French, dean of Elphin, the Bishop of Elphin [John Leslie] and 2 others.

15 [Mar] 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1825/9

Letter from James Tandy, Grangebeg, Kilcullen, County Kildare, chief police magistrate for counties Carlow, Wicklow, and Kildare, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing an account of monies received from the treasury in support of the police establishments of counties Carlow, Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin, in respect of the Peace Preservation Act, and also a return of county assize presentations [neither present], 16 August 1824. Encloses copy letter from William Allen, pro collector, Excise Office, Naas, County Kildare, to Tandy, reporting that the treasurer of County Kildare has paid to his office £6,641 10s 6½d which has been forwarded to the treasury department; also the sum of £661 17s 7d was sent by the treasurer of County Wicklow, plus a sum of £712 14s 1d by the treasurer of County Carlow, but so far ‘none from the Treasurer of the County of Dublin’, 9 August 1824. Also letter from Major John Wills, [Esker Lodge], Lucan, County Dublin, chief constable of baronies in counties Kildare and King’s County [County Offaly], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying an account of the amounts presented for by his police establishment for the years 1818 and 1819 [not present], 4 August 1824.

4 Aug 1824-16 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1825/10

Letter from Thomas Philip Vokes, police magistrate, Limerick, County Limerick, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, concerning the disabilities of police constable John Tolson, 1 July 1824. Encloses memorial from Tolson to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of a pension following an attack upon his person while acting ‘to protect persons distraining for Rent’ at Athea, in County Limerick, 24 June 1824. Also letter from Vokes to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, sending ‘a return of seven useless men’ disabled in the course of police service [not present] and seeking payment of a small allowance to each, 23 September 1823. Also 2 letters from Major George Warburton, superintendent general of police for counties Galway, Clare and Roscommon, to Goulburn, conveying details of 2 men, Rowland Willes and James Tormey, who are unfit for ordinary police duties, 20; 27 September 1824. Encloses letter from Willes, Ennis, County Clare, to [Warburton] seeking assistance in carrying forward his application for a measure of financial relief from government, 18 September 1824. Also encloses memorial from James Tormey, Longford, County Longford, to Warburton, recalling the ‘severe treatment’ received in course of his duties at Mullagh, [County Clare], and appealing for some compensation, 22 September 1824.

23 Sep 1823-27 Sep 1824

1824