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CSO/RP/OR/1831/1541

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, indicating his intention to send 20 men to serve in the Connemara region; enclosing letter from Rev Anthony Thomas, magistrate and rector of Connemara, Clifden, [County Galway], to Lord Clanricarde [Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquis of Clanricarde], complaining of the unsettled state of the barony of Ballynahinch and requesting the placement of an appropriate police force to establish law and order; emphasising that arms are plundered in the district, threatening notice are posted and illegal combinations are entered into; also covering letter from Clanricarde to Gosset.

28 Nov 1831-17 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1542

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from John Brown, Sub-Inspector, Carrick on Shannon, [County Leitrim], reporting on peace keeping efforts by the police at the fair of Drumsna; stating that two large groupings were assembled in the neighbourhood with an intention of having a faction fight ‘to decide by brute force’ whom is the stronger; noting that a company of dragoons from County Longford also helped ensure that an affray did not take place; also copy of requisition by Francis O’Beirne, high sheriff and three other magistrates, requesting that Brown deploy a sufficient force of police at Drumsna on the morning of Tuesday 13thof December. Also letter from John Wright, Chief Constable, Ballinamore, [County Leitrim], to Gosset, reporting the killing of a house breaker by Edward Rosman during a defence of his father’s property at [Edentenny]; warning the death may cause an escalation of local tensions as his father [Bennett Rosman] is a yeoman.

11 Dec 1831-17 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1543

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Portumna, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing extracts from the chief constables reports on the state of the country in counties Clare, Galway, Roscommon and Sligo: detailing various types of outrages such as assault, intimidation, beatings, discharge of gunshots, arson, destruction of livestock and supplies, attacks on the police and the posting of threatening notices.

19 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1544

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, concerning some manifestations of outrage in County Mayo and the need for a suitable distribution of constabulary; enclosing letter from Capt Nicholas D’Arcy, Chief Constable, Ballaghaderreen Barracks, County Mayo, reporting on the general circulation and display of threatening notices in the town; enclosing copy of a notice advertising a public meeting in Ballaghaderreen on 26th of December to discuss the prospect of sending a petition to Parliament to seek relief from distress; declaring that reform must be introduced to offset the influence of ‘local Tyrannies of the ruthless landlord, the Vindictive Agent and upstart Driver and pound Keeper’.

23 Dec 1831-25 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1545

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing a letter from Alexander Lowrie, Chief Constable, Birchgrove, Ballinasloe, reporting on the apprehension of 22 Whiteboy suspects from the parishes of Taghmaconnell and Drum; remarking the offences committed by the men are of a serious nature and include plundering arms and killing livestock; also reporting on the injury and killing of sheep on the property of Mr Agnew near Shannon Bridge [Shannonbridge, Kings County or County Offaly]; adding that a Rockite notice was served in the same vicinity on the tenants of Mr St George.

24 Dec 1831-25 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1546

Three letters from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on a protracted illness affecting his brother [Maj George Warburton] and stressing the latter’s inability to communicate on matters of police business; indicating that as yet he cannot even handle the most pressing of his correspondence.

25 Dec 1831-28 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1547

File of documents concerning the disturbances that following the killing of a countryman by the son of a yeoman in Ballinamore in County Leitrim. Includes letter from John Wright, Chief Constable, Ballinamore, to [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], detailing the subversive activities that have occurred on account of the killing of Hugh Reynolds by Edward Rosman during a defence of his father’s property at Edentenny; remarking upon the conduct of local Rockites who have posted threatening notices and have used intimidation to curtail purchases of goods in Protestant shops; explaining that tensions are especially high in the district around Edentenny and remarking the lower orders have made diligent search of the immediate area in a bid to discover the whereabouts of Rosman; also transcribing two threatening notices warning Charles Gerard to discharge his servant James Magill and warning local people against dealing in Protestant shops on pain of death. Also includes letter from John Wilks, sub-constable, Carrigallen, to Wright, repeating the sentiments of a man named Fitzpatrick spoken at Edentenny; indicating that Fitzpatrick said the ‘Body of the man that was shot should be brought back and laid at the house of the murderer until it would rot’; adding it was further threatened if the Lord Lieutenant could not bring redress, local people should enforce justice themselves.

15 Nov 1831-25 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1548

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing extracts from the chief constables reports on the state of the country in counties Clare, Galway, Roscommon and Sligo: detailing various types of outrages such as an attempted rescue of prisoners, the accidental death of three females in a house fire, an assault and theft by members of the 68th Regiment [of Foot], a beating which led to death, the robbery of arms and the discharge of a gun during a house attack.

30 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1549

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from [John Brown], Sub-inspector, Ballinamore, County Leitrim, alluding to the spirit of revenge that has erupted due to the killing of Hugh Reynolds by Edward Rosman, a yeoman, during a defence of his father’s property at Edentenny; remarking the local magistrates take the view that an augmentation of the constabulary force is required to keep the peace; also enclosing letter from Capt Robert Atkinson, Chief Constable, [Ballinamore], reporting his arrival in the town of Ballinamore with a police force numbering twenty men; adding that the local people were somewhat displeased at the display of police on market day and were ‘very much intimidated’.

27 Dec 1831-30 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1550

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on the relative calm of the district under his jurisdiction; observing, however, that the sentiments of the peasantry remain influenced by disaffection, a trait that will likely be manifest again.

26 Dec 1831

1831