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CSO/RP/1823/2400

Petition of Patrick Black, Bantry, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting government interference on his behalf, and seeking a fair trial, in relation to his dismissal from the County Limerick police force. Details the circumstances of his case, commencing with a complaint made to Mr Burke, chief constable, respecting the conduct of Mr Field, Patrick Concannon and Regan, sergeants in the County Limerick police. Complains of unfair treatment by Burke as a result of his complaint, resulting in his dismissal, [31 December 1823]. With subsequent annotation by Goulburn.

[31 Dec 1823]

1823

CSO/RP/1824/181

Letter from Major Benjamin Blake Woodward, inspector general of prisons, 41 Leeson Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, seeking to advance plans for expenditure on construction of jails and court houses in County Cork, as discussed with Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary. Also copy letter from CSO to Thomas P Luscombe, commissioners for relief of the poor, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of £3,000 for use of Woodward until such times as money can be raised for erection of jails in County Cork by local presentments. Also incomplete letter from CSO to Woodward indicating that upon presentation of receipt [on strength of local assizes presentments] to Luscombe, a payment of £3,000 may be claimed ‘to commence the necessary operations’. Also petition of the commissioners for building bridewells in the towns of Mallow, Kanturk, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Bantry, Middleton, Macroom, Bandon, Dunmanway and Charleville [County Cork], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of the final installment of £3,200 for completion of jails ‘in order to have them Completely Available for County purposes early in the next Summer’, signed by Arthur Annesley and 7 other commissioners.

24 Jan 1824-Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/205

Petition of Patrick Mangan, pensioner, 49th Regiment of Foot, Bantry, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the police establishment of any district in Ireland. Asserts his past military service of over 22 years, a term which including action under Lord Nelson in 1801. He stresses his desire ‘to be employed in the defense of his Country’.

7 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/351

Petition of Lieutenant Stephen Burke, chief constable of police in the barony in Bantry, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting leave of absence for a brief period to settle affairs of mother, who is in a ‘delicate State of Health’ plus a further period of leave for one month for personal use as ‘he is Engaged to be married to a Lady in the County of Galway’.

15 Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/413

Letter from Richard B Cotter, secretary, Grand Jury, County Cork, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial from the commissioners for building bridewells in the towns of Middleton, Mallow, Kanturk, Charleville, Bandon, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Bantry, Macroom and Dunmanway in County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting approval for payment of money from the Consolidated Fund for use in construction of those bridewells deemed ‘most eligible’ for completion; signed by Arthur Annesley, Sir Augustus Warren and 8 other commissioners. Refers to the ‘great deficiency’ in county prison accommodation and remarks on his collaboration with Major Benjamin Blake Woodward, inspector general of prisons, in making arrangements for the erection of bridewells. Also certificate indicating the Grand Jury of County Cork has raised a sum of £1,000 for construction of a bridewell in Clonakilty; with repayment terms affixed.

21 Apr 1824-3 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/493

Copy of ‘Report on the Southern District in Ireland, containing a Statement of the progress made during the year 1823, on the several Roads carried on at the public expense in that District under the Orders of His Excellency, the Lord Lieutenant’, compiled by Richard Griffiths, civil engineer, for the attention of Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle. Discusses progress of public works in counties Limerick, Cork and Kerry, carried on ostensively between the rivers Shannon and Blackwater, in particular the new lines of communication between Listowel and Newmarket, Castleisland and Newcastle, Newmarket and Charleville, Macroom and Glenflesk, Skibbereen to Crookhaven harbour, Clonakilty to Ring harbour, Timoleague to Courtmacsherry, and Bantry to Skibbereen; also comments on some roads proposed for attention, a line from Newmarket through the Bogra Mountains, and a road from Bantry Bay to the Kenmare river over a mountain ridge. Remarks on particular mode adopted to increase productivity in labour among lower classes, the reduction in outrages in region, and reflects on the beneficial aspects of the work for the wider economy and society; includes full cost breakdown of southern road construction schemes under heading ‘General Statement of Public Accounts for 1823.

26 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/706

Petition of William Swanton, high constable and collector, Gortnagrough, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting extension of financial aid due to personal losses incurred through devaluation of currency received as ‘Collector of the Public Money for the West Division of the Barony of West Carbery’. Refers to the collection of notes issued by the banking houses of Messrs Leslie and of Stephen and James Roche, who later declared bankruptcy, and counts the refusal of same by the county treasurer as ‘a fatality which he could not foresee’. Asserts he was obliged to make up the losses out of his own fund; with character reference on foot signed by Lord Bantry [Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry] and 6 others. Also second signed memorial from Swanton to Wellesley, plus certificate from James Delacour, treasurer, County of Cork, describing Swanton as ‘a highly meritorious public officer’. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/756

Petition of Peter Kelly, police constable, Barracks, Bantry, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment of his son, John Kelly, to a situation in the police establishment. Remarks his own salary is ‘not sufficient to procure’ for his family of 8 the ‘indispensable necessities of life’. Alludes also to his contribution to the public good having served almost 9 years with the Light Dragoons and over 19 years with the Royal Dublin Militia.

5 May 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/862

Petition of Robert O’Brien, British seaman, Bantry, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, advancing application for a position in the police establishment; with certificate in his favour inscribed overleaf from the magistrates and clergymen of County Cork. Reply appended to front of sheet from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stating that O’Brien should apply to a magistrates in any county in which the police are stationed.

c26 Apr 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/875

Petition of James McGuire, Bantry, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to situation in the police or the water guards. Refers to his own past loyalty in 1798 when as a young man he ‘was on duty day and night’ and mentions his brothers in the army and navy, two of who lost their lives in active service.

9 Jun 1824

1824