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CSO/RP/1824/1111

Letter from Alderman John Cash, police magistrate, Police Office, Marlborough Street, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, advancing case for his son to succeed to post as counsel to the police of following Thomas Mckane, recorder to police of Dublin. Observes his son has 16 years experience as a legal practitioner and has been employed with the police establishment since 1821. Annotation added to back of letter by CSO official states that authority to make the appointment rests with the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket].

8 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1112

Letter from William Murdock, Glaslough, County Monaghan, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering observations on control and management of mendicants in Ireland. Remarks on lack of success in containing traveling beggars within parish boundaries through use of license and laments that as well as being carriers of disease, ‘the great evil is that they train up their children to Idleness, Robbery, and every kind of vice’. Recommends establishment of a house of industry in every county with almshouse and school facilities; admission to be instigated through the clergy and church wardens of each parish and confirmed before local magistrates. Proposes financial support for such institutions be apportioned on a proportional basis, subject to the number of inmates from each parish. Annotation on back of letter indicating lack of concurrence by Chief Secretary with suggested measures.

21 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1113

Letter from C Plunkett, chief constable of police, barony of Tyrhugh [Tirhugh], Ballyshannon, County Donegal, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting leave of absence for 3 weeks to attend to personal affairs following death of a close family member.

6 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1114

Letter from Charles Vernon, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering himself as candidate to fill post of registrar of newspapers in the stamp office, Dublin, which attracts a salary of £120 per year. Reasons that duties associated with the post might be fulfilled alongside the regular labour of his present official position as warehouse keeper of unstamped goods, and indicates that his application is presented at suggestion of uncle, Sir Charles Vernon, [Phoenix Park, Dublin].

[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1115

Letter from the magistrates of the head office of police, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking determination over whether informer William Kiely should be released from Smithfield Penitentiary, Dublin, and given a weekly allowance. Indicates that Kiely, contrary to a previous account in interview, supplied a voluntary confession on circumstances surrounding an arson attack on the Shea family.

3 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1116

Petition of Frances Caron, widow of William Caron, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, soliciting advance of aid in support of herself and 8 orphan children. Relays her husband was ‘Killed by a musket shot’ fired carelessly by a soldier of the 57th Regiment of Foot at the fair of Neale, County Mayo, in August 1821, and remarks on insufficiency of a sum of £5 sent by government in 1822 following an application for financial assistance. Requests an answer be sent care of Charles Costello, Edmondstown, Ballaghaderreen, County Mayo.

c17 May 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1117

Letter from Richard Griffiths, Mallow, County Cork, civil engineer overseeing public works, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying due to press of business in giving work to the poor he will not have opportunity until the month of August to carry out a survey on the road from Mitchelstown, County Cork to village of Ballylanders, County Limerick, as proposed by George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston.

18 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1118

Letter from Richard Griffiths, Mallow, County Cork, civil engineer overseeing public works in south, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on dearth of food resources in many of the mountainous districts of County Cork and efforts to provide employment to those in need. Requests a sum not exceeding £1,000 to alleviate those in poverty in and around Kanturk and Newmarket, to be applied and laid out in opening short connecting roads between existing lines and recently constructed roads. Remarks on the likelihood of a fruitful harvest and on the general productivity of the rural population in promoting agriculture; also notes widespread enthusiasm for manufacture of coarse linen and its extension in Clonakilty and Skibbereen. Also indicates intention to visit site of new road from Foynes via Askeyton [Askeaton] to the city of Limerick, County Limerick, and to offer employment to the poorer classes on works.

17 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1119

Petition of John Harley, Ballineen, near Bandon, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to situation in the police establishment. Claims to have ‘served many years in both, his Majesty’s Navy and Army’ and asserts he is fully fit and eligible for such employment.

17 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1120

Letter from Lieutenant General Mervyn Archdall, Castle Archdale, Lisnarick, County Fermanagh, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing resolutions of meeting of magistrates of County Fermanagh, held at the Court House, Enniskillen, relating to nomination of police constables for the county, 26 June 1824. Lists names of 28 individuals in attendance at meeting under chairman, Lieutenant Archdall. Declares a total of 6 chief constables and 80 sub-constables are ‘sufficient for the preservation of the peace of this County’. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

26 Jun 1824-28 Jun 1824

1824