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CSO/RP/OR/1831/917

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 Constable James Strong, Buttevant, County Cork, to Lieut Henry John Brownrigg, Chief Constable, Doneraile, reporting on the turning up of pasture fields of five tenants of Lord Arden [Charles George Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden] on the townland of Breagogue [Bregoge]; stressing, however the damage is minimal and suggesting the crime may have its origin in the failure of the farmers to feed their labourers, or, in one case, to having supplied provisions to the local garrison. Also includes letter from Joseph A Dames, Chief Constable, Pallas Greane, [Pallasgreen, County Limerick], to Miller, providing a statement on the discovery of the ‘mangled remains of an infant’ in the neighbourhood of Deak [Derk], barony of Coonagh; observing that suspicion has fallen upon one Mary Meagher, who has lately absconded.

12 Mar 1831-16 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/918

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 Francis Crossley, Chief Constable, Kanturk, [County Cork], to Miller, reporting on a serious altercation in the town of Kanturk between two factions named the Dalys and Clancys; stating he interfered on foot of fears that lives would be lost and made six arrests. Also includes letter from James Barry, Chief Constable, Clonakilty, to Major John Gallwey, Sub-Inspector, County Cork], conveying a copy of a ‘Proclamation’ that was discovered on the market house of the town of Rosscarbery; signed by JH, sub-secretary of the ‘Company of United Irishmen’, it warns all Protestants and any others who ‘do not wish to regain their native liberty’ to depart from Rosscarbery or ‘be put to death’.

17 Mar 1831-26 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/919

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 Samuel Forsayeth, Chief Constable, Tipperary, to Miller, reporting on the setting alight of a rick of hay belonging to Edmund O’Ryan, magistrate, of Bansha; adding the police arrived in time to save the ‘greater part’ of the haystack in question. Also includes letter from Lieut [William Edward] Brady, Chief Constable, Castleconnell, [County Limerick], to Miller, reporting on a local meeting of the Protestant Colonization Society of Ireland; remarking that the parish priest, Rev Malone, reacted in a most abrasive manner, warning the people of the motives of the Protestant ‘Blood hounds’ both in the society and in schools; noting the effect of Malone’s tirade has been the withdrawal of a substantial number of Catholic school children from establishments organised under Protestant patronage; also apprehending that trouble is not very far away, noticing last night ‘the whole of the hills and mountains in the County of Clare exhibited a universal blaze of lights’.

25 Mar 1831-31 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/920

Letter from [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Holly Hill, [Strabane, County Tyrone], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing a letter from Rowley Miller, [magistrate], Moneymore, [County Londonderry], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, in connection with the formation of a local ‘club…for distributing firelocks and bayonets’; warning that the membership is entirely Catholic and likely includes Ribbonmen; observing the club meets on the fair day of Moneymore and requesting guidance of whether he possesses powers to suppress it. Also letter from John W Laughlin, Coagh, County Tyrone, to D’Arcy, offering an overview of gun clubs in the region and the makers and sellers of firearms and ammunition; noting the sectarian dimension beneath the possession of arms by such clubs.

17 Mar 1831-29 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/922

Letter from Rowley Miller, [magistrate], Moneymore, [County Londonderry; Derry], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, referring to his previous communication with government in connection with the tumult that arose over a distrain for rent on the Tobermore Estate [owned by Sir George Hill] on the 18th of February; emphasising he had to call out the police to ‘prevent a breach of the peace & loss of life’; stating that he and his son issued a summons against William Nelson and William Jameson, who were also called on for sureties and to surrender their firearms. Also affidavit of Miller and John Rowley Miller, stating their apprehensions that Nelson and Jameson [of Moyesset], will subject them to assault or otherwise injure their property; requesting that Nelson and Jameson be ‘bound over to keep the peace’; sworn before James Knox, Rev William Knox and George Barber, magistrates, Magherafelt Petty Sessions.

9 Mar 1831-10 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/923

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on the presence of a ‘stranger’ in the environs of the town of Churchtown [County Cork] for the purpose of disseminating controversial printed matter; pointing to the final paragraph of one such example [enclosed], headed ‘Alarming and Distressing Accounts’, which carries an ‘insidious tendency’ in connection with labourers’ demands for increase of wages.

21 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/927

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from Edward Williamson, Rosscarbery, County Cork, to Gosset, reporting on the posting of two threatening notices in the town of Rosscarbery; complaining at the small number of police personnel in the town and their secluded location; stressing that his loyalty in the 1798 Uprising and his membership of the yeomanry makes him a particular target for the disaffected; enclosing copy of a threatening notice that was placed on the local market house, warning Protestants and any others who ‘do not wish to regain their native liberty’ to depart from Rosscarbery or ‘be put to death’, signed by MH, sub-secretary of the company of the ‘United Irishmen’; also copy of a threatening notice addressed to Williamson warning him over taking down the previous notice and ordering him to depart from the town. Also letter from Thomas Hungerford, magistrate, Rosscarbery, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, drawing attention to the exhibition of threatening notices in the vicinity; adding that a number of extra policemen are required to keep watch over the neighbourhood; with transcription of one of the notices below.

24 Mar 1831-1 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/929

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, acknowledging the will of government to strengthen the police station at Mountpelier [Montpelier], County Limerick, near O’Brien’s Bridge [O'Briensbridge], by increasing the total to 10 policemen; adding he has just received the letter from government instructing he depart for the city of Limerick.

13 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/930

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 Lieut [William Edward] Brady, Chief Constable, Castleconnell, [County Limerick], to Miller, reporting on the appearance of a threatening notice on McKnab’s property, which lies between Castleconnell and O’Briensbridge; remarking it was exhibited for the purpose of deterring workmen from cutting turf at the rate of 9d per day; also noting his response to a report that the barracks at O'Briensbridge was to come under attack by insurgents, which proved to be false; adding that he has undertaken legal proceedings against the landlord to have bolts fitted to the doors and windows of the barracks of Montpelier. Also includes affidavit of James Dinan of Nenagh in County Tipperary, stating that a [black]smith of the name of Danaher, a resident of the townland of Knockagrady, ‘has been in the Habit of making Pikes since Christmas last’; similarly, he notes that another blacksmith named Hallman is making the same weapons in his forge about 2½ miles from Scariff; also adding additional information on the making of pikes and procuring timber for their shafts; sworn before JB Kittson, Chief Constable, Nenagh. Also includes letter from Kittson to Miller, providing a statement on the knocking down of a cabin belonging to William Laurence on the townland of Gortlassabrien and the levelling of some ditches; noting that the identity of 19 of those responsible is known and efforts will be made for their apprehension; adding on the night of 5th of April a stack of hay was consumed at Coole belonging to a man called Martin [Hanning].

4 Apr 1831-9 Apr 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