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CSO/RP/1822/3121

Letter from Richard Griffith, Newmarket, County Cork, civil engineer overseeing public works, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, acknowledging receipt of instruction to spend £3,000 in marking out and fencing the proposed new roads between Abbeyfeale and Newmarket, and Castle Island and Newcastle, in counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick.

23 Dec 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/3123

Letter from Richard Griffith, Skibbereen, County Cork, civil engineer overseeing public works, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning construction of proposed new roads in counties Cork, Limerick and Kerry, and estimated costs of each line of road. Comments that 'the road between Abbeyfeale and Newmarket is the most important in the mountain district..', and notes the benefits of the other planned routes. Also refers to suggestions made by Mr Wiggins for a proposed alteration in the planned road between Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, and Castle Island, County Cork.

3 Nov 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1823/57

Letter from Richard Griffith, Newmarket, County Cork, civil engineer overseeing public works schemes, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stating that he will soon be ready to forward his accounts to Dublin, and attributing the delay to his involvement with preliminary arrangements concerning the new roads from Newmarket to Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, and Castleisland, County Kerry, and Newcastle, County Cork.

13 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/1164

File of papers relating to application of the grand jury of County Kerry at spring assizes 1823, for rebuilding of the bridge at Listowel, County Kerry. Includes letter from William Ponsonby, Tralee grand jury room, County Kerry, foreman of County Kerry grand jury, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 25 March 1823, enclosing 2 petitions from the grand jury, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle: one concerning the county's application for funds to rebuild the bridge over the River Feale at Listowel, badly damaged in recent floods; the other concerning their request that the duration of time allocated for the County Kerry assizes be extended; both petitions are signed by Ponsonby. File also includes 2 letters from Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismore, Convamore, Fermoy, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting to know whether Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, has approved the plans of Richard Griffith, civil engineer, for the new bridge at Listowel; emphasises that 'all communication between the western part of the County of Limerick & Kerry is cut off…' until the bridge is rebuilt; 27; 31 May 1823; Goulburn has annotated a note to Gregory, on the reverse of Ennismore's first letter. File also includes letter from John Killaly, at Ennis, County Clare, civil engineer, to Gregory, responding, as requested, on the content of Ennismore's letters, 7 July 1823. Also includes letter from Sir Charles William Flint, Irish Office, London, resident under secretary of the Irish Office, to Gregory, 2 August 1823; and a letter from Griffith, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, to Goulburn, concerning his estimate for completion of a proposed road from Abbeyfeale to Listowel, 10 September 1823.

25 Mar 1823-10 Sep 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/1270

Letter from Richard Griffith, Dublin, civil engineer overseeing public works schemes, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning his surveys undertaken to ascertain the best line of communication between Listowel, County Kerry, and Abbeyfeale, County Limerick. States that his preferred route passes through a 'wild and mountainous district at present nearly inaccessible…'. Requests permission to spend £600 in marking out, fencing and draining the road, to allow work to commence on it in spring 1824, 27 August 1823. Also 2 further letters from Griffith, to Goulburn, and to Alexander Mangin, first clerk in civil department of Chief Secretary's Office, concerning the estimate for the proposed road, 25 September; 23 October 1823.

27 Aug 1823-23 Oct 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/1419

File of papers concerning ordination of Henry George Hewson, and his presentation to Church of Ireland parish of Abbeyfeale, County Limerick. File contains letter from Thomas Elrington, Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick, See House, Limerick, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning application from Hewson to obtain ordination, 8 April [1822]. Also letter from Hewson, Limerick, to [Chief Secretary's Office], requesting a letter confirming his presentation to the living of Abbeyfeale, in order that he may be ordained, 10 April 1823. Also further letter from Hewson, Abbeyfeale, to Gregory, requesting presentation to the vicarage of Abbeyfeale, 5 September 1823, and enclosing his letters of priests' orders, signed and sealed by John Jebb, Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, 13 April 1823; also signed by Bryan McMahon, diocesan registrar [Jebb succeeded Elrington as Bishop of Limerick in January 1823].

8 Apr [1822]-5 Sep 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/1456

Petition of the poor and labouring classes of Newcastle and Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, emphasising their 'distress and Misery', from lack of employment in area. Urges commencement of public works scheme to construct a new road from Newcastle, in order to provide employment, and complains of frequent postponements to the work by Richard Griffith, civil engineer overseeing the schemes. Also complains of the 'extravagance' of engineers and their clerks, accusing them of 'squandering' the funds allocated by Wellesley for poor relief [subsequent CSO annotation indicates petition received 27 August 1823]. Also letter from Griffith, Mallow, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, responding, as requested, to the petitioners' complaints. States that the work has been deferred owing to 'improper, and unexpected pecuniary demands, being made by resident tenants, for the land occupied by the road, which I could not consent to, as their Farms will be materially benefitted by the road….'.; Griffith has also made annotations beside 2 points made in the original petition.

[27 Aug 1823]-15 Sep 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/1981

Letter from Captain George Mears John Drought, Limerick city, chief police magistrate of Limerick city, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting, as requested, on the subject of a petition from Patrick Hayes of Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, applying for government remuneration [Hayes' petition not present], 14 May 1823; with subsequent pencil annotation on reverse by Gregory. Also 2 further letters from Drought, at Limerick and at Abbeyfeale, to Gregory, respecting Hayes' claims for remuneration, 20 May; 1 June 1823. Also letter from Hayes, Abbeyfeale, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting an answer to his petition of April 1823, and urging government assistance. Notes that, 'I am still labouring under an accident which I met with in resisting one of the attacks on my house and…I have been obliged to abandon my house', to seek military protection. Emphasises the losses he has incurred as a result of his opposition to the insurgents, 8 October 1823.

14 May 1823-8 Oct 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/2330

Statement prepared by Richard Griffith, on the public works schemes in the southern district of Ireland, commenced by order of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 'in which considerable progress has been made…': these works are a road from Charleville and Newmarket, County Cork; and one from Skibbereen to Crookhaven, County Cork. Also a statement on works commenced 'but in which little progress has been made': the road between Newmarket and Abbeyfeale, County Limerick; and the road between Castleisland, County Kerry, and Newcastle, County Limerick. Includes a breakdown of the funding arrangements for each road, stating the total sums required to complete them. Also contains a note on Griffith's recommendations for work that ought to be commenced in the district, including a bridge over the River Feale at Listowel, County Kerry; a road from Macroom, County Cork, to Glenflesk, County Kerry, and a road from the vale of Arraglin [Araglin], County Cork, with the estimated cost of each. Statement signed by Griffith.

27 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1824/404

Petition of Patrick Hayes, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, advancing claim for losses of around £850 allegedly sustained through attacks on property due to his ‘determined resistance to the disaffected and Seditious’. Alludes to an attack by a ‘large banditti’ on a dwelling on the townland of Craig, the theft of ’16 head of Black Cattle’ and loss of crops due to intimidation of local men at harvest time. He claims to have suffered additional damage in February 1822 when ‘two houses belonging to him were leveled to the ground’ and ‘a large quantity of Hay’ was taken and ‘thrown into the river’. Complains of failure to obtain compensation from local assizes and affixes to the base copies of certificates signed by various parties in support of his application for aid for exertions against the Whiteboys.

24 Jul 1824

1824