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CSO/RP/1825/1811

Letter from WS Ponsonby, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking an accommodation for Mr Walsh, agent to the 4th Earl of Bessborough [John William Ponsonby], in connection with a conveyance of crown lands on Bessborough's property in County Kilkenny. Also reply from [?the Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, indicating Walsh has made a number of approaches on the matter of the purchase of the lands from the Commissioners of Crown Lands but ‘no specific proposal has yet been made’. Also memorandum from Samuel Percy Lea, secretary, Commissioners of Crown Lands, on the issue.

15 Sep 1825-Jan 1826

1826

CSO/RP/1825/1812

Letter from Reverend George Hay, senior Presbyterian minister of Londonderry, County Londonderry, and regium donum agent, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to the persistence of the minister of the congregation at Portadown, County Armagh, who seeks payment of his quarterly bounty on the same footing as the clergymen of Drumlough and Anaghlone in County Down. Indicates he showed the man in question a letter of clarification he received on the matter from government [which he encloses and asks to be returned to him].

28 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1813

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer overseeing public works in the western district, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting that a number of the inhabitants of isles of Arran, County Galway, have been employed by him on the ‘coast road to the West of Galway’. Indicates they left the islands on account of a lack of food and because of the spread of disease. [See also description CSO/RP/1825/1755].

18 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1814

Copy memorial of the noblemen, gentlemen and inhabitants of Dublin and vicinity to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking assistance of government for a reconstruction of the district around Barrack Street, Dublin, and enclosing a plan and estimate for same [not present]. Explains they propose to extend the quay on the north side of the river to the Phoenix Iron Works, to enhance the area near the Royal Barracks, and when complete to construct a new bridge [in memory of the visit of King George IV in 1821]. In the process the removal of old dwellings on Barrack Street would be facilitated, a place ‘nearly impassable’ on busy market days and ‘infested with Women of the most abandoned Character, and Public Houses of the lowest description’. Such a material alteration, they observe, would remove the threat of disease to the local army garrison, and put an end to the ‘scenes of Riot, Drunkenness and gross indecency’ displayed for all to see in open daylight on that street. Signed by Thomas Abbott, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and c96 other individuals.

[1825]

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1815

Letter from Mathew Barrington, crown solicitor [Munster circuit], Dublin, to Thomas Taylor, clerk, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, reporting on an application from Mary Sheehy, Mary Hill and Mary Sheahan [crown witnesses] of County Limerick, for an increase in weekly subsistence. He remarks the women are all in receipt of an ‘adequate weekly allowance’ so government should not advance any further remuneration, 19 January 1826. Encloses memorial from Sheehy to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, referring to her prosecution of those involved in an attack on the dwelling house of William Nagle of Ballyvacana, [?County Limerick], and seeking relief, 2 January 1826. Also encloses memorial from Hill to Wellesley, stating she gave evidence on behalf of the crown against Denis Kelleher and Martin Ward, two members of a party who robbed and burned her house. Complains of lack of means and requests additional monetary aid, 4 January 1826. Also encloses memorial from Sheahan to Wellesley, claiming she took a full part in the prosecution of 4 persons implicated in the attack on Nagle’s house. Laments of being underpaid for her labours and asks for a further measure of compensation, 17 January 1826. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

2 Jan 1826-19 Jan 1826

1826

CSO/RP/1825/1816

File of material containing character references and recommendations for John Hargrave to succeed to the position previously held by Francis Johnston as architect and inspector of civil buildings with the Board of Works, Dublin. Includes letter from James Gibbons Jr, magistrate, Ballynagall House, Mullingar, County Westmeath, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stating Hargrave’s suitability as a person to act as architect. Remarks the applicant was the designer of the gaol and courthouse of County Westmeath and is a man of ‘professional excellence and moral character’, 19 January 1826. Also letters of support from Sir Richard Levinge, 6th baronet, Knockdrin Castle, County Westmeath; Thomas Pakenham, 2nd earl Longford, Pakenham Hall, County Westmeath; and Robert Smyth, MP for County Westmeath, Drumcree, County Westmeath.

19 Jan 1826-2 Feb 1826

1826

CSO/RP/1825/1817

Letter from George Ewing, [barrister], Primrose Hill, Kingstown [Dunleary; Dún Laoghaire], County Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment as successor to Major Alexander Taylor, commissioner for paving [Corporation for Paving, Cleaning and Lighting the streets of Dublin]. Stresses his own professional expertise and competence to act in that capacity and observes his appointment would be a fitting compensation for his loss of a similar post some 14 years back.

15 Jan 1826

1826

CSO/RP/1825/1818

Letter from Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, Castle Coole, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, making application on behalf of Reverend James W Williams, Presbyterian minister of Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, who is desirous of getting the government bounty or regium donum. States Williams is a man of ‘good character’ who is well established in the county.

30 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1819

Letter from John Willoughby Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen, Florence Court, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting issue of the government bounty or regium donum to Reverend James W Williams, Presbyterian minister of Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh. Williams, he observes, will shortly present a memorial seeking the bounty and is a respectable applicant with ‘a very large congregation’.

10 Jan 1826

1826

CSO/RP/1825/1820

Letter from Reverend Charles Dickinson, chaplain and secretary, Female Orphan House, Circular Road, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying at a recent board meeting presided over by Mrs Peter La Touche the Chief Secretary was elected to the office of governor. With annotation on reverse from Goulburn admitting his is ‘flattered by this honour they have done me’.

16 Jan 1826

1826