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CSO/RP/OR/1831/1181

Letter from Capt George Drought, [chief magistrate of police], Roscommon, [County Roscommon], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, expressing his intention of allowing additional police resources for the Thomastown Park neighbourhood of County Roscommon; adding that he deferred making any change until completion of the election and assizes. Also letter from Edmund Henry Naghten, High Sheriff of Roscommon, Thomastown Park, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking the protection of police due to local intimidation; referring to the disturbed state of the surrounding country and complaining he could not with safety remain in his residence.

11 Jul 1831-17 Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1182

Two letters from Col JS Rochford, magistrate, Clogrenan, [Clogrennan], Queen’s County [County Laois], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, drawing attention to an article in a Carlow newspaper [not present]; expressing a strong warning about the objects of Daniel O’Connell and his associates; alleging they wish to see the yeomanry disarmed and then the police, a process which would ‘probably end in a Popish Republic’; also denying that certain factional toasts were drank by the grand jury of County Carlow, in response to a speech in which accusations to that effect were made by O’Connell.

25 Jul 1831-29 Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1183

Letter from Gerald Fitzgerald, Chief Magistrates of Police, Cashel, [County Tipperary], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting an attack on the dwelling of John Ryan in the vicinity of Dundrum by a large mob comprised of persons of both sexes; stating they broke the windows, stripped the thatch, and fired ‘several shots’ at the inhabitants; adding the mob finding they could not gain access set the building alight; observing that three occupants made their escape thorough the flames; noting the reason for the attack was based on a presumed ‘right of property’ and adding he anticipates bringing the majority of the culprits to justice.

30 Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1184

Three letters from Capt John Roberts, Chief Magistrate, Ennistymon, County Clare, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting his investigation of a malicious fire at Kilfenora; surmising that the act may have its origin in a dispute amongst local bakers over supply of bread to the nearby military establishment; adding that a number of men are now arrested in connection with the murder of five policemen at Tonvahera, [Teervarna] on the 4th of April; observing the Terry Alts system is likely to resume in the winter but may not reach the intensity of recent times; observing that walls in the barony of Burren were levelled and some convictions for trespass have been secured.

4 Jul 1831-30 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1185

Two letters from Col JS Rochford, magistrate, Clogrenan, [Clogrennan], Queen’s County [County Laois], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reflecting on the case of John Murphy, a blacksmith from Carrigbeg [Carrig Beg], County Carlow, who is under investigation for disloyalty; enclosing memorial from the inhabitants of Carrigbeg to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking clemency for Murphy who faces a loss of licence to work in his profession; signed by 32 persons; also commenting upon a large public meeting at the chapel of Leighlin Bridge [Leighlinbridge, County Carlow] at which some inflammatory resolutions were issued in relation to restricted dealing; remarking on the effect of this: noting the people would not sell their butter to Mr Watson, a merchant, and Rev Chapman, vicar of Dunleckny, could not get anyone to cut his corn. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

c21 Jul 1831-13 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1186

Letter from the magistrates of Head Office of Police, [Dublin], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing copy affidavit of Robert McIntyre, James Edgar and Thomas Edgar, Clonmahon, near Ashbourne, [County Meath], stating they encountered severe opposition when seeking to collect hay and oats due for tithes out of the parish of Ballyboghil, County Dublin, for Rev Thomas Radcliffe; describing an attack upon them with stones by a small number of assailants on land in possession of Peter Dungan; indicating they succeeded in taking the crop and managed to identify their attackers, primarily John White and John Maginess; sworn before John Tudor, magistrate of the Head Office of Police.

13 Apr 1831-15 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1187

File of letters and documents from Rev Samuel T Roberts, magistrate, [Ravendon], Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, chiefly on resistance to payment of tithes in counties Carlow and Kilkenny. Includes letter from Roberts to the Chief Secretary’s Office, stating he is the incumbent of the union of Mothell, County Kilkenny, and complaining of the ‘foul conspiracy’ amongst the lower orders against settlement of tithe debts; lamenting the people are ‘ordered by their Priests not to pay’ and calling for the imposition of a military force to aid collection; also noting the baneful influence of Dr [James Warren] Doyle. Also includes letter from Roberts to the Chief Secretary’s Office, lamenting at the behaviour of Capt [Thomas] Woodcock, who apparently goes unchallenged in ‘leading mobs of Hurlers’ in opposition to the laws of the country; asking why he is still in receipt of half pay? Also includes affidavit of Thomas Bassett and John Rose, County Carlow, recounting the opposition shown by the peasantry to their work as valuators for the Rev Richard Boyle Bernard, Rector of Shankill, County Kilkenny; stating they were defied by Daniel Maher who depreciated the Protestant clergy and threatened to ‘throw out his tithe’; complaining that following valuation of Maher’s farm they were accosted by a mob of persons who ‘took from them their Books, & tore out the observations they had entered’; adding the mob ‘searched their Pockets for further documents’ and stoned them on their departure, through which they were ‘severely injured’; sworn before William Richard Stewart, magistrate.

18 Aug 1831-21 Sep 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1188

Letter from James Rodford, Commander, ‘HMS Nimrod’, off Kildysart, [County Clare], to [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], discussing the possibility of removing the ‘Nimrod’ to Galway Bay, County Galway, to aid the restoration of law and order in that vicinity; adding that his own official jurisdiction has been extended by his having been conferred to the commission of the peace for counties Clare and Limerick. Also letter from Rodford, Foynes Island, Shanagolden, [County Limerick], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, offering some thoughts on preventing further turbulence amongst the fishermen of Claddagh in County Galway; stating he has sent Captain Glascock with the sloop ‘Orestes’ to the region in question; adding that application will be made to the Admiralty to have a small vessel stationed in that bay, and in addition, aid has been called for by the local coast guard ’to take such steps…to prevent a recurrence of such illegal and vexatious conduct for the future’.

6 Aug 1831-29 Oct 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1189

Letter from Bartholomew Dillon, magistrate, Ballyquin House, [County Kilkenny], [post town Waterford, County Waterford], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting the murder of John Reid, a farmer’s servant, of the town of Mullinavat in County Kilkenny, on the 13th of November; explaining that the guilty party made an earlier attempt on Reid’s life and have prevented his near relatives from coming forward to give evidence on the crime; proposing that government offer a reward of £50 for information on the murder, as convictions have been rare in the neighbourhood over the past 20 years or so.

20 Nov 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1190

Letter from Capt John Roberts, Chief Magistrate, Ennistimon, [Ennistymon, County Clare], to Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on an enquiry into the integrity of Francis Roche [witness to a crime]; referring to a deposition from Roche and observing his submissions contain implicit contradictions and are ‘wholly at variance’ with a former statement; adding ‘it would be hard to convict any man, on the evidence of such a witness’. Enclosing affidavit of Francis Roche, Carhinduff [Carnduff], admitting that his memorial to the Lord Lieutenant was written by Thomas Flanagan; acknowledging that he later saw John Flanagan, clerk of the petty session’s court, but he had no part in the preparation of the memorial; sworn before Rev William Henry Stackpoole [Stacpoole], magistrate.

21 Oct 1831-5 Nov 1831

1831