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CSO/RP/1832/2011

Letter from MC Carter, 35 Cuffe Street, [Dublin], to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], wishing to know if he is required to attend the Commission at Maryboro [Maryborough, Queen's County or Portlaoise, County Laois]; includes annotation noting that the matter should be addressed to the Crown Solicitor.

9 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2012

Letter from [William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron] Plunket, [Lord Chancellor of Ireland], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, noting that Lord O’Neill [Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill, Lord Lieutenant of Antrim] appears to concur with the proposal to appoint a stipendiary magistrate; wishing to know if the Lord Lieutenant has written to Lord Duncannon [John William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, Lord Lieutenant of Carlow] regarding Mr Blakeny [possibly regarding the conduct of Walter Blackeny, magistrate]. Also damp press copy of letter from Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], to S Jones [], Eyrecourt, [County Galway], instructing him to proceed immediately to Portglenone, [County Antrim] following his return from Connemara.

7 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2013

Affidavit of Edward Reynolds, farmer and agent, Guilford, County Westmeath, claiming that he received threats while attempting to collect tithes due to Rev John Usher of Guilford in the parishes of Ballymore, Bunown, Forgney and Noughaval, [counties Westmeath and Longford]; seeking police or military assistance. Also related letter from Rev Usher, Abbott’s Hotel, Dawson Street, [Dublin], to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary]. Also letter from HW Thompson, Sub-Inspector, Westmeath Constabulary Office, to Sir John Harvey, Inspector General, observing that Usher hold no church preferment and is entitled to the tithes ‘merely as Lessee of the Bishop of Meath’; wishing to know if he is therefore authorised to offer police protection. Also letter from Harvey, to [Thomas] Taylor and Gosset, noting that Capt Drought, Chief Magistrate at Athlone resides closer to the parishes; includes legal opinion of Richard W Greene noting that Usher’s case is valid.

15 Mar 1832-3 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2014

Letter from N Fitzhenry, Chief Constable, Roscommon, to Maj Warburton, Inspector General, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], complaining that Capt Taafe, magistrate, ordered Constable McDonnell, officer in charge of Four Mile House, to attend at Strokestown Fair, [County Roscommon] without first informing him; claiming that Taafe ‘arrogantly’ informed him at the Petty Sessions that he would do so again if necessary. Also covering letter from Warburton, Dublin, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], includes legal opinion of Richard W Greene noting that a magistrate should channel his requests through a chief constable in the normal course of events but that this may be dispensed with in cases of emergency. Also damp press copy of reply from Gosset, Dublin Castle, to Warburton, outlining the legal opinion which should be made know to Taafe.

1 May 1832-11 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2015

Letter from Bryan McMahon, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], noting that both he and his brother, Patrick McMahon, will accept positions in the police but would prefer positions in the waterguards outside of County Clare; drawing attention to their plight, having lost their farm and all they own; adding that his aged father would accept £20 in order to emigrate. Also letter from M Singleton, Tolerton House, [County Carlow], to Gosset, noting that he has a vacancy in his Peace Preservation Police establishment for McMahon. Also damp press letters from Gosset, to Singleton and [Sir John Harvey], noting that the McMahon’s have received recommendations from the magistrates of the neighbourhood of [Kilelahan], County Clare; observing that they have been appointed to the Leinster Constabulary.

30 Apr 1832-11 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2016

Copies of letters from CH Tuckey, Sub-Inspector, Kilkenny, to Sir John Harvey, Inspector General, Dublin, concerning the case of Sub-constable Fluellan who quit the constabulary without taking leave in order to join the [6th Dragoon Guards] for which he has been sentenced to three months imprisonment by Col Osborne; adding that having enlisted, Fluellan returned to Castlecomer and ‘strutted’ round the town in his carbineers uniform and suggesting that he may have been sent ‘as a sort of crimp’ to entice other policemen to enlist, which, if successful, would leave the force with ‘only the Lilliputians of the district’; reporting that Robert Dalton, sub-constable also enlisted in the Carabineers having smashed his carbine in a fit of intoxication. Also covering letters from Harvey, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], commenting on the cases and his correspondence with Capt Hay, commending the Carbineers at Kilkenny; observing that he has always facilitated his men who wish to join the army as this will enable the army to procure a ‘better class of man than they can expect to get by the ordinary means’; observing that in nearly all cases the police service is regarded as too good a position to be resigned or exchanged for another position. Also damp press copies of replies from Gosset, Dublin Castle, to Harvey.

28 Apr 1832-10 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2017

Letter from John Harvey, Inspector General, Dublin, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], recommending that Michael Cain, sub-constable of the County Kilkenny Constabulary be retained in the service as he is fit for active service; observing that he had been recommended for discharge having developed a speech impediment which has since been removed. Also damp press copy of reply from Gosset, Dublin Castle, to Harvey, approving of the measure.

8 May 1832-10 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2018

Memorial of Michael Cooley, crown witness, Police Office, Limerick City, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking assistance to allow him emigrate with his family having testified in a murder case; noting that he provided evidence against Patrick Ryan senior and junior, John Connell and John Conway, whom he implicated in the death of Maurice Connell, bailiff of Frederick Holland of Castlefarm, County Limerick; adding that Standish O’Grady of Castlefarm, encouraged him to come forward with evidence. Also letter from Mathew Barrington, Dublin, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], recommending that he be given £10. Also damp press copy of letter from Gosset, Dublin Castle, to TP Vokes, requesting information on the case.

1 May 1832-10 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2019

Letter from John Allen, sub-constable, Hollymount, [County Mayo], to MN Wright, Chief Constable, Ballinrobe, [County Mayo], seeking advise on how to act in coroner’s inquest cases in future; recounting a difficulty experienced by both himself and William Roberts, sub-constable in procuring a literate jury in the inquest into the death of Thomas Fahey at Newbrook, as requested by Mr Gale, coroner. Also covering letters from Wright, to Maj Warburton, Inspector General and from Warburton, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary]. Also copy of reply from Gosset, to Warburton, noting that the coroner has no right to compel constables to act as bailiffs for summoning jurors.

21 Apr 1832-12 May 1832

1832

CSO/RP/1832/2020

Letter from Rev Charles H Crookshank, Tehallon, Monaghan, [County Monaghan], to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], observing that he has received none of the tithes due to him due to opposition and has decided to await the decision of parliament on the matter; enclosing a copy of a threatening notice [extant] and observing that a meeting is to be held in the chapel in order to refute any allegation that his family were threatened; noting that the catholic priest of the parish suggested to him that the ‘Protestants of the neighbouring Parish of Monaghan’ must have written the letter. Includes copy of the anonymous letter signed ‘A Steadfast Protestant No Surrender’ warning Crookshank of a plot to kill him should he attempt to take out a decree for tythes at the petty sessions. Also damp press copy of reply from Gosset, Dublin Castle, to Crookshank.

26 Mar 1832-[10] May 1832

1832