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CSO/RP/1830/16

File of correspondence by Lieut DeCourcey, Ballylongford, County Kerry, to ‘My Lord’ [likely Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], complaining about collusion whereby Chief Constable Lambert imposed the green wax process twice on DeCourcey’s tenant; also including correspondence between sub-constables James Williams and John Shnell, Ballylongford, County Kerry, [Cap] Matthew Singleton, sub inspector, Tralee, County Kerry, and Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, eventually showing that the second payment was due to an omission by sub sheriff O’Sullivan, and that the tenant has since received a partial refund.

12 Oct 1829-5 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/107

Memorials from Mary Hennessy alias Real, widow, Glourie [Glouria], and also care of Thomas Bunnion, Gunsborough, Listowel, [County Kerry], to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], complaining that justice was not done to her by the magistracy following her being raped by Robert Scanlon, Glourie [Glouria] [County Kerry]; asking for redress and referring to Rev John Buckley, parish priest, Galey. Also including a letter from William Hickie, Francis Crosbie, and William Lands junior, [magistrates], Ballylongford, [County Kerry], explaining why they dismissed the complaint after a hearing.

13 Jan 1830-9 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1831/2139

File of documents concerning an application for reinstatement to the police constabulary from Patrick Pierce, late sub-constable of Ballylongford in County Kerry. Includes memorial of Pierce, Listowel, [County Kerry], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking an enquiry into hisdismissal from the police on 6th of September 1831; complaining her was removed on account of a ‘misrepresentation’ by a policemen named Daniel Sullivan but granted no trial. Also includes letter from Arthur Morris, Ballylongford, to the Knight of Kerry [Maurice Fitzgerald, 18th Knight of Kerry], requesting that he use his ‘influence’ to have an investigation undertaken on Pierce’s behalf. Also includes letter from [M] Fitzgerald, [magistrate], Valentia [Island], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on the circumstances around Pierce’s claim; indicating that the man in question was dismissed apparently for attempting to force Sullivan to marry his daughter, whom the latter allegedly ‘seduced or violated’; recommending an investigation of the matter.

14 Sep 1831-17 Oct 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/2362

Memorial of Patrick Leonard, former letter carrier to the General Post Office [Dublin], Ballylongford, County Kerry, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking assistance in claiming a full pension for his service under the crown; remarking he has been on the superannuation list for almost six years, during which he has been paid only £0 3s 10d weekly; insisting that his record is clean and he is not guilty of default, although there is a discrepancy recorded against him for sums exceeding £40 accumulated in 1812; includes a small table showing his time of service in the army and the GPO, a total of 32 years; appeals for an investigation of the accounts of the GPO.

20 Sep 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/2427

File of documents arising from an application for employment under government from John Hourigan of Ballylongford in County Kerry. Includes letter from Hourigan, 2 Little James Street, Dublin, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, requesting appointment as a coast guard; claiming to have acted to prevent the Terry Alts from using his boat to cross over from Kilrush [County Clare] to Scattery Island on the River Shannon; complaining as a direct result of his actions his life is in danger and seeking an answer. Also includes letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, indicating that Hourigan is a fit to serve in the police constabulary and is accordingly appointed.

10 Sep 1831-6 Oct 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/2450

File of documents arising from a complaint against Christopher Julian, a magistrate of Listowel in County Kerry. Includes letter from William Hickie and Francis Crosbie, magistrates, Ballylongford, [County Kerry], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, complaining over the conduct of fellow magistrate, Julian, whom they allege acted illegally in bringing for trial the persons of Patrick McElligott and Ellen Enright on a charge of robbing a publican named Edmond McElligott of the town of Ballylongford; stating that Julian had the suspects rearrested, following a previous hearing, but refused to share information at the petty sessions of Ballylongford; adding that Julian subsequently issued summons to various local persons to appear at Tarbert petty sessions, but these summons were signed by himself only; noting that a private investigation was then held in Listowel, but the outcome remains unknown to them. Also includes two letters from Julian, Listowel, to Gosset, offering a full explanation of his conduct in the matter complained of; expressing a firm rebuke at the alleged misconduct of Arthur Morris, clerk of the petty sessions at Ballylongford, and seeking his dismissal.

16 Sep 1831-29 Sep 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/2501

Memorial of Catherine Henry, widow, [Ballyvoneen], near Ballylongford, [County Kerry], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, requesting the appointment of her sons, William Henry and Thomas Henry, to the police establishment of County Clare; lamenting she is now reduced to poverty and has a family to care for; stating he had six sons and two daughters with her ‘genteel’ husband Patrick Henry, a soldier of the 24th Regiment [of Foot], and noting he served in the military for between 18 and 19 years, but was killed at the battle of Waterloo.

1 Oct 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/2524

Memorial of Timothy Sullivan, farmer, Lisloughten, [Lislaughtin], Ballylongford, County Kerry, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, complaining over the outcome of a case involving himself and two of his sons presided over by the magistrates at the petty sessions of Ballylongford and seeking a retrial at either Tarbert or Listowel; explaining that a charge was brought against himself and sons by Thomas Scanlan and James Scanlan, labourers, for an alleged ‘Assault & Battery’ in connection with an attempted recovery of potatoes that had previously been distrained for rent and arrears of rent; lamenting that the magistrates of Ballylongford failed to give a fair hearing or offer justice, as in the incident in question, Thomas and James Scanlan were the aggressors; with annotation on reverse giving legal opinion of Richard W Greene.

15 Oct 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/931

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Tipperary; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from [Henry] Brownrigg, Chief Constable, Mallow, [County Cork], to Miller, reporting on the death of a man named Michael Ryan following a very severe beating outside the town of Kilmallock in County Limerick, where [horse] racing was being held; observing that Ryan, a native of Charleville, County Cork, was attacked outside the town following a fight between the inhabitants of Kilmallock and the country people. Also includes copy of a threatening notice posted in the town of Ballylongford in County Kerry; written by the ‘Darling Boy from Ennis [County Clare]’, it warns tyrants not to demand more ‘than ten shillings a peck for their Potatoes’ and ordering the people ‘to rear no more calves in this County’ or face annihilation. Also includes copy of handbill addressed to the Catholic inhabitants of the town of Dungarvan in County Waterford; encouraging members of the local community to attend at Easter vestries in order to oppose monetary taxes by the ‘Bloated and overgrown Church Establishment’ who seek to ‘wring from the Pockets of a famishing poor their last farthing for the decoration of a Church which they never enter and from which they derive no Benefit’.

8 Apr 1831-13 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/953

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Tipperary, Kerry and Limerick; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from [Benjamin] Jackson, Chief Constable, Listowel, County Kerry, to Miller, reporting on the activities of a mob of disaffected persons in the village of Ballylongford who called for the inhabitants to provide illuminations; remarking the mob smashed the windows of those who refused to comply and later turned their wrath against the police barracks and the men inside; adding that charges were raised against the ringleaders at Tarbert petty sessions; also reporting on a procession of near ‘fifty men decorated with Green Sashes and Cockades’ who marched between Ballylongford and Tarbert, ‘in regular military style with music’. Also includes letter from JB Kittson, Chief Constable, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Miller, reporting on a serious altercation at the fair of Toomavara, between two factions who ‘did not cease fighting for about two Hours’; remarking the combatants refused to listen to the parish priest or his curate and a number of those involved received superficial cuts from ‘blows of sticks’; also reporting that a man named Patrick Cusker was attacked outside the town and now appears unlikely to survive; adding that ground turned up by the Terry Alts in the district around Doohara has now been restored by the peasantry.

9 May 1831-30 May 1831

1831