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CSO/RP/1824/1551

Report on the southern district of Ireland with details of work carried on at public expense during the year 1823 on roads in counties Limerick, Cork and Kerry, by Richard Griffiths, civil engineer. Provides full commentary on work and emphasises its value for extension of both law and order, and peace and tranquillity. Details work on various lines of communication, for example the Listowel to Newmarket road, the Castle Island to Newcastle road, the Newcastle to Charleville road, the Macroom to Glenflesk road, the Skibbereen to Crookhaven road, the Clonakilty to Ring road, the Timoleague to Courtmacsherry road, the Bantry to Skibbereen road, and work on the new entrance to town of Bandon; also mentions the proposed Bogra road and the road from Bantry to Kenmare. Refers to resistance of local peasantry to being employed by piece, they ‘wished to be employed by the day, and to do as little work as possible’. Detects signs of social improvement amongst the population who through participation in the public works have been elevated above ‘the wretched and desponding state to which they had been reduced by the effects of the Whiteboy warfare of the winter of 1821 (in which they were all engaged) and the dreadful famine of the spring and summer of 1822’. Also incorporates at back of report ‘A General Statement of Public Accounts for 1823’.

26 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1552

Account of expenditure by Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer overseeing public works in western district, claimed out of Treasury funds. Indicates individual expenditure on public works in counties Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon and Leitrim, the total of which is £25, 486 17s 1½d.

20 Nov 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1824/1553

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer overseeing public works in the western district, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, enclosing an ‘Account of sums expended on the several public works in the western district in 1823’. Provides breakdown of individual items of expenditure on roads, piers and bridges, in counties Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Sligo and Leitrim. Adds on base ‘The above sums are exclusive of all the expense of management’.

14 Jun [?1823]

1823

CSO/RP/1824/1554

Report on the public works for the employment of the poor in the western district of Ireland to March 1824, by Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer. Considers in detail progress of public works schemes on roads in counties Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Sligo and Leitrim and notes despite inclement weather during 1823 ‘the works upon the whole have been economically conducted’. Discusses work on various lines of communication, including for example the Connemara road, the Barna road, the Joyce Country road, the Cong to Killery road, the Killery to Westport road, the Achill road, the Swineford to Killala, the south Mayo road, the Ballintubber to Westport road, the Loughrea road by Craughwell, the Ballymoe to Castlerea road, the Tarmonbarry to Strokestown and Elphin road, the Coolcarney road, the Ballyfarnon road, the Gevagh [Geevagh] colliery road, the Raughley [Raghly] pier, the Mohill to Cloone road, and the River Moy navigation.

Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1555

Abstract of applications for public works in County Tipperary, made reference to by John Killaly, civil engineer overseeing public works in the central district of Ireland. Gives description of individual schemes and their cost, with note on when reported in red ink below. Refers chiefly to public works on the River Suir Navigation, to works between Carrick on Suir, Clonmel, Caher, Golden, to construction of ‘A Bridge, Causeway, and Road at Drangan’ and repairs to a road from Nenagh to Cashel and Clonmel. Also printed table showing the funds granted by the Commissioners for Relief of Poor, Dublin Castle, for public works in various parishes of County Tipperary [also shows information for counties Sligo, Leitrim, King’s County [County Offaly], Waterford, Westmeath, Cavan, Fermanagh, Wexford and Kilkenny], signed by EFW Steinkopff, a commissioner.

6 Aug 1822-[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1556

File of material relating to plans for development of diocesan and district schools in Ireland. Includes report from the commissioners of education in Ireland to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, making recommendations for development of diocesan and district schools in Ireland ‘in order to extend throughout Ireland the benefits of Classical Education’. Reviews existing legislation relating to diocesan schools and concludes ‘so few Dioceses are at present provided with School Houses or Estates’. Examines education provision in various districts and makes recommendation for consolidation in certain cases; evaluates various population certres including Downpatrick, Ardagh, Londonderry, Armagh, Monaghan, Cavan, Raphoe, Drogheda, Mullingar, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford, Thurles, Limerick, Tralee, Dungarvan, Cork, Ballina, Tuam, Loughrea and Elphin, 17 February 1823. Also includes copy letter from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to commissioners of education, expressing approval on behalf of the Lord Lieutenant on plan suggested and indicating that warrants will be issued as required, 14 April 1823. Also includes copy warrant from the Lord Lieutenant stipulating the remuneration payable to diocesan and district school masters, 28 February 1824. Also includes copy of Lord Lieutenant’s order in council sanctioning payment of salaries to diocesan and district school masters, 27 June 1823.

17 Feb 1823-28 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1557

Letter from John Maxwell-Barry, 5th Baron Farnham, Farnham, County Cavan, commissioner for crown lands in Ireland, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, reporting on submissions from surveyors in connection with work on the proposed survey of Ireland. Proposes as an experiment that 2 baronies are surveyed in order to ascertain accuracy and quality of proposed work, 11 December 1823. Encloses letter from Sherrard, Brassington and Green, 1 Blessington Street, Dublin, land surveyors, to Samuel Percy Lea, Crown Lands Office, Treasury Chambers, Dublin, secretary to commissioners of inquiry into crown lands in Ireland, setting out in detail standards and criteria essential for completing the intended survey of Ireland. Stresses need for accurate and careful land measurements and well constructed maps and estimates; suggests the work could not be completed for less than 6d per acre in sterling currency, 8 December 1823. Also encloses letter from Joseph James Byrne, land surveyor and valuer of estates, 3 Richmond Street, Dublin, to Hartstonge Robinson, Crown Lands Office, commissioner for crown lands in Ireland, submitting opinion on proposed general survey. Sets out proposals for creation of a worthwhile survey and estimates the work would cost about 5d per acre plantation measure, 8 December 1823. Also letter from Farnham to Goulburn reiterating suggestion to carry out a test survey of a couple of baronies known to him, 21 February 1824.

8 Dec 1823-21 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1558

Petition of the King’s County [County Offaly] and Westmeath flax and spinning association to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking sanction by government for a charter or act of Parliament to bolster their association. Discusses extensive plans for expanding local linen production and to improve effectiveness of scutch mills and stresses value of offering employment to both sexes of the lower orders, signed by Samuel Robinson, secretary. Also printed prospectus from the King’s County [County Offaly] and Westmeath flax and spinning association ‘Established for the purpose of introducing into those Counties the benefits of the Ulster or Northern mode of Treating Flax, that Spinners may be enabled to spin fine Yarn, when they have the raw materials improved’. Invites subscribers to enlist in ‘this truly national object’ and illustrates the ‘Expense of Sowing an Acre of Flax Soil’ and advantages to be derived from adoption of the Ulster method; contains a list of subscribers beneath and notes the quantity of shares purchased by each. A handwritten note on side of document mentions a meeting of the association held at Tullamore town hall, at which a committee and officers were elected and resolutions carried forward.

25 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1559

Letter from Robert Tottenham Ponsonby Loftus, Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, concerning disagreement over erection of new church in the parish of Devenish, County Fermanagh. Indicates that a contest has developed between those who wish for a second place of worship on a new site in village of Garrison, as supported by the bishop, and those who want the church to be located at Kilcoe [Kilcoo], headed by Major John Killegrew Dunbar, landed proprietor and magistrate of Kilcoe, [1824]. Encloses copy memorial [marked No.1] from the Protestant inhabitants of Kilcoe, parish of Devenish, to Dunbar, requesting their petition for a new place of worship at Kilcoe under the discipline of the established church be presented to the Bishop of Clogher, 18 May 1822. Also encloses 5 copy letters [marked Nos.2-5] from Dunbar, written from addresses at Kilcoe and Clanbrassil Place, Dublin, to the Bishop of Clogher, referring to legal predicament preventing his conceding to application for a church in Garrison, and emphasising advantages to be derived should it be situated at Kilcoe; remarks that such a location would likely draw members of the Roman Catholic faith to the church, 29 January; 21 June 1823. Also encloses copy of document [marked No.6] from Reverend Hume Lawder, Belleek, incumbent of parish of Devenish, setting out information on the question at issue under paragraphs styled ‘First’ to ‘forth order’.

18 May 1822-[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1560

Letter from George Grierson and Martin Keene, His Majesty’s Printing Office, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, dismissing contention from anonymous magistrate alleging delay in despatch of acts of parliament to magistrates when printed. Remarks the writer ‘appears to have been afraid to sign his name if he had we should have been able to convict him of most wilful and deliberate falsehoods’. Returns anonymous signed ‘A magistrate’ to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, complaining of lack of diligence by the King’s printers in sending out printed statutes for use of magistrate in Ireland; concludes such delay is to the advantage of the printers but to the determent of law enforcement.

26 Apr 1824-25 May 1824

1824