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CSO/RP/OR/1831/900

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 Samuel Croker, Sub-Inspector, Carrickbeg, County Waterford, to Miller, reporting on the appearance of a placard on the main Catholic chapel of Carrickbeg and enclosing a copy of same; contains a demand for the ‘reform of the despotic government’ and urges people to ‘cry out for the dismissal of those miscreants in power who are striving to goad you into Rebellion’. Also includes letter from [Mathew] Singleton, Sub-Inspector, Tralee, County Kerry, to Miller, reporting on a meeting to discuss repeal of the union in a reading room in the town of Tralee; observing that upon the signal of a bell boy a ‘number of tradesmen, Labourers, Servants and Butchers Boys filled the Room’; warning if the unrepresentative petition goes forward it will be one of the ‘greatest impositions’ ever placed on the ‘respectable inhabitants’ of the town.

1 Feb 1831-13 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/901

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork and Tipperary; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from Robert Thompson, Chief Constable, Borrisokane, [County Tipperary], to Miller, reporting on the robbery of a gun from Michael Ryan of the parish of Eglish [Aglishcloghane]; stating that the gang of four armed men forced Ryan to get the weapon from a neighbour’s house. Also includes letter from JB Kittson, Chief Constable, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Miller, conveying the contents of a communication from Rev Patrick Quinlivan, [Roman Catholic] parish priest, Silvermines, warning that a general attack is likely to be directed against the smaller, more isolated, police stations in the district; remarking it is his personal opinion that ‘there is no danger of a General rising of the People in this Country’.

15 Feb 1831-23 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/902

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Tipperary and Waterford; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from Miller to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, indicating that as yet no ‘legal proof’ has been obtained against the person suspected of writing a seditious placard that was found posted at one of the entrances to the Roman Catholic chapel of Carrick on Suir [all County Waterford]. Also includes letter from Samuel Forsayeth, Chief Constable, Tipperary, to Miller, reporting an attack on George and Samuel Bradshaw and their drivers who were in process of distraining tithes due to Rev Vaughan, on lands about three miles from the town of Tipperary; adding that some shots were discharged by the assailants but no injury sustained.

22 Feb 1831-27 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/906

Letter from Frederick Darley, Inspector General, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from [Rev] Samuel Madden, Kilkenny, [County Kilkenny], reporting on the alleged appearance of a about ten men in the town of Kilkenny ‘with large sticks in their hands’ who were intent upon travelling to Dublin; warning of the danger of insurgents travelling to the capital to assist their compatriots.

12 Feb 1831-14 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/907

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the County of Meath. Includes copy affidavit of Peter Sullivan, Edengora, County Meath, stating his dwelling house was broken into on the night of the 21st of December by a party of men ‘armed with pistols, Bayonets and sticks’; complaining the gang subjected him to a severe beating and stole from him the sum of 7s 6d; adding he knows the names of several of his attackers; sworn before Philip Smith and Thomas Barnes, magistrates. Also includes affidavit of John Radcliff, barrister, Wilmount, County Meath, stating that a very large assembly of men, about 300, came to his place of abode to demand ‘a shilling a day’ in payment for labour; repeating his discussion with the men and adding they took one of his labouring men with them; sworn before six magistrates. Also includes letter from John Henderson, Sub-Inspector, Navan, to Lieut George Despard, Sub-inspector of police, Summerhill, reporting on the appearance of as many as 3000 men on the roads leading to Tankardstown; remarking they obstructed work in the fields and ‘in several instances taking the cattle from the ploughs and cutting & destroying all the harness’; noting that the magistrates and a company of lancers marched out to meet them but the crowd had already began to disperse.

26 Jan 1831-21 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/908

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the County of Meath. Includes letter from Thomas S White, magistrate, Nevinstown, Navan, County Meath, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, calling for an immediate allocation of military to the towns or villages of Clonee, Ratoath, Dunboyne and Dunshaughlin; stressing that such a measure is essential to stem the ‘insurrectionary spirit’ that now threatens to infect the counties of Dublin and Kildare; noting that 34 men are in custody in connection with a disruption at Skreen mill; warning of the advance of 5000 men towards the border of Dublin and adding ‘we are on the Eve of a frightful crisis’. Also includes letter from Lieut George Despard, Sub-inspector of police, Trim, to Gosset, reporting that a large party of men had been moving throughout the district around Athboy forcing those at work to desist and obstructing agricultural labour; stating he removed the policemen under his command to Ballivor where they joined a company of the 9th Regiment of Foot and encountered the mob; adding that reinforcements were provided with the arrival of Capt [Bartholomew] Warburton with a force of lancers and he made 48 arrests. Also includes letter from Maj Samson Carter, stipendiary magistrate [police], Navan, to Gosset, reporting that he has made arrangements for a company of the 17th Lancers and the 92nd Infantry to move into the town of Nobber; adding that a ‘diligent’ search was made for illegally held firearms in that place and a quantity of weapons and ammunition were recovered; observing that local whitesmiths, John and Patrick Fagan, ‘are in the habit of repairing arms & have no licence’; adding that the villages of Kilmainhamwood and Ballivor were also searched for arms but ‘without success’. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

22 Feb 1831-25 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/910

Letter by Walter Molony, Chief Constable, Gort, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting an attack on four policemen by a party of Rockites consisting of about 100 men in the vicinity of Newquay, [County Clare]; stating that a small number of the insurgents were shot, one having been brought to the barracks, is just expired; adding that the Rockites had sometime earlier broken into the house of a man named [John] Rabbit, beat him and robbed him of a gun. Also letter from Tomkins Brew, [Chief Constable and magistrate], Newquay, Burren, to Gosset, reporting the incident in detail.

16 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/911

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, enclosing a letter from [Henry] C Nason, Constable, to [Henry] Brownrigg, Chief Constable, Doneraile, [County Cork], reporting an outrage that took place on the lands of Ballough, near Liscarroll, against a man called Edmund Allen; reporting Allen’s house was broken into, and the proprietor beaten and robbed of £3 10d and some other items; also threatening notice addressed to a Dennis Bradly demanding a payment of ‘one pound in silver’. Also letter from Cap Samuel McClintock, Chief Constable, Slane, [County Meath], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, on the subject of a proposed meeting of the country people at Drogheda [County Louth] to agitate for a lowering of rents and tithes.

25 Jan 1831-31 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/912

Two letters from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on political tensions in County Tipperary. Enclosing a letter from Robert Laffan, Thurles, County Tipperary, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, conveying details of a communication from Dr [Patrick] MacMahon, Roman Catholic bishop of Killaloe, stressing his resolve to discourage use of inflammatory language among those under his influence, particularly of the type make use of a recent meeting at Silvermines [County Tipperary]. Also letter from JB Kittson, Chief Constable, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], referring to a letter from Rev Patrick Quinlivan, Silvermines, parish priest, which warns of the danger of an attack on the police; adding in relation to the [Daniel] O’Connell affair ‘the moment the slightest disturbance takes place in Dublin the whole Province of Munster will be in a Blaze’.

24 Feb 1831-20 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/916

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Tipperary and Limerick; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from Miller, Fermoy, [County Cork], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting the escape of David Hayes, a man accused of a capital felony, from the bridewell of Kanturk in County Cork; also noting the aid given the police in apprehending a number of Hayes’s associates by John Phair, and recommending he receive a reward of £5 or £6. Also includes letter from Alexander Lowrie, Chief Constable, Thurles, [County Tipperary], to Miller, reporting an affray between ‘two factions’ who ‘met for the purpose of fighting’ in the street of the town of Thurles; observing the fighting was brought to a halt by Daniel Ryan, magistrate, but resumed later in the evening with fierce stone throwing and the discharge of a few gunshots; adding that after midnight some of the ‘very lowest of the mob’ returned and broke the windows of some of the ‘respectable inhabitants’; remarking that the mob combined and turned their violence on the police who were forced to retire.

1 Mar 1831-8 Mar 1831

1831