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CSO/RP/OR/1831/932

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Limerick and Tipperary; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from William Smith, Sub-Inspector, Rathkeale, [County Limerick], to Miller, reporting that some of the fields attached to the estate of Lord Dunraven [Windham Quinn, 2nd earl Dunraven and Mount Earl] were ‘broken up’; also noting a similar outrage on the property of John Lynch, in the neighbourhood of Fedamore, where 100 men defaced about six acres of ground; observing the disaffected also ‘dug a grave [in] the form of a gallows…after which they shouted for Clare and Daniel O’Connell’. Also includes letter from W Lumsden, Chief Constable, Skibbereen, [County Cork], to Miller, reporting on the burning of a dwelling house belonging to Timothy Hayes; remarking the arson was likely an act of retribution against Hayes whose daughter prosecuted a man called Patrick Donovan for rape, and who was ‘sentenced to be hanged’ by the court.

11 Apr 1831-18 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/933

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork and Kerry; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from [Henry] Brownrigg, Chief Constable, Doneraile, [County Cork], to Miller, reporting an attack by a party of five men on a farmer named Thomas [Dales] of the townland of Coolasmattane [Coolasmuttane], near the police station at Newtown; remarking his attackers sought to take away a ‘spade & coat’ but being unable to find those items smashed his household furniture before departing; giving his opinion that the outrage in question is ‘of a local nature…committed by [our] gang of ruffians’ and recommending the reinforcement of the station there. Also includes letter from James Barry, Chief Constable, Rosscarbery, [County Cork], to Miller, conveying the observations of the petty sessions of Rosscarbery in connection with the distributing and posting of threatening notices in the immediate locality; expressing their opinion that Thomas Gash is ‘wholly innocent’ of charges in connection with that activity; Barry states that a man named John Dillon is now in custody on ‘good information’ for allegedly having a hand in the misdemeanour complained of.

6 Apr 1831-26 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/934

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Limerick, Kerry, Waterford and Tipperary; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from Robert Coote, Chief Constable, Dingle, [County Kerry], to Miller, reporting that malicious damage was done to the parapet wall along the new road between Dingle and Castlegregory; stating that several ‘breaches’ were made in the wall ‘on the most dangerous part of the road‘; adding the perpetrators were likely drawn from the workmen who laboured but had not ‘been paid their Hire’. Also includes letter from Robert Thompson, Chief Constable, Burrisokane, [County Tipperary], to Miller, reporting an attack on the dwelling house of Robert and James Orr of Whitehall on the 19th of April; remarking the assailants stole a musket, two pistols, a dozen silver spoons and some money, and also attempted to shoot James Orr. Also includes copy of a threatening notice posted on a gate belonging to Mr Wise of Kilbragan [County Cork]; demanding a reduction of rent for the country people and warning Wise, if he does not concede ‘we must have it forcibly by the number of one thousand men’; signed by ‘Captain Flake’.

19 Apr 1831-28 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/937

Two letters from Walter Molony, Chief Constable, Gort, [County Galway], to [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], reporting on the continuation of agrarian crime by the Rockites and Terry Alts; alluding to a visit by the Rockites to the premises of Mr Butler at Cregg [Creggs], where they made a diligent search for any person accepting remuneration ‘under the rate of wages prescribed by them’; also reporting that ‘about four hundred of the Rockites surrounded Mr Peter Daly of Castledaly in a ploughed field placed him on his knees & ordered him to swear to abate his rents’; also reporting on a large number of other instances of outrage in the immediate locality, such as house breaking, robberies, beatings and intimidation. Also letter from John Daly, acting chief constable, Oranmore, [County Galway], to Warburton, reporting on an incursion into the village of Lavally by the Terry Alts; noting they deprived one inhabitant of two guns, beat severely another, and swore others ‘not to pay more than a stated price for lands’.

12 Apr 1831-17 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/941

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, recommending payment of a reward of £5 to a publican named Hagan who gave assistance to the police ‘under trying circumstances’. Enclosing letter from Patrick Carroll, Chief Constable, Borrisoleigh, [County Tipperary], to Miller, outlining the part taken by Hagan in defence of the constabulary following an attack on the house of Michael Dunn of [Rathlearty].

14 Apr 1831-21 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/942

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from Joseph A Dames, Chief Constable, Pallas Greane, [Pallasgreen, County Limerick], reporting on the turning up of ground in the barony of Coonagh by large numbers of people; also reporting on the shooting of Henry Wheeler, agent to Lord Stradbroke [John Edward Cornwallis Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke], while travelling to the fair of Nenagh. Also letter from John Lombard, sub-constable, Kilcommon Barracks, County Tipperary, to Miller, providing an outline of the circumstances around Wheeler’s murder.

24 Apr 1831-29 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/943

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on an application for protection from Peter Bourke of Foynes Island on the River Shannon [County Limerick]; observing that a police station is to be established on the island which will give security to the inhabitants. Enclosing memorial of Bourke, high constable of the barony of Lower Connello, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, requesting a measure of protection from government; stating that his property came under attack on the 17th of April by a group of armed insurgents, who came into his house and exposed him to a most ‘violent’ beating; adding his attackers made off with a selection of weapons including three guns and a sword. Also copy instructions [to a clerk in Dublin Castle] from Gosset ordering that Miller be written to with instructions to make Limerick his headquarters; also discussing some proposals for re-ordering the police establishment in that place.

19 Apr 1831-27 Apr 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/945

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Limerick, [County Limerick], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on the progress of outrage containment in the south of Ireland; indicating his intention of going to Waterford where he expects ‘troublesome work’ and emphasises that the serious disorder in County Clare must be ‘put down’ before it spreads in all directions; remarking on the need to maintain vigilance over the water connections between counties Clare, Galway, Limerick and Tipperary, and emphasising the need for appropriate protection; also commenting on an incident in Clare during which the police and military opened fire on the country people, and adding his reservation to such a response.

4 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/946

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Limerick, [County Limerick], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from John Willcocks, Sub-Inspector, Cashel, [County Tipperary], reporting on the prospects of a number of candidates who are standing in the coming election; noting that John [Hely] Hutchinson is busily canvassing in the locality ‘on a distinct pledge to support the Reform measure’; observing that Lord Portarlington [John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington] is likely to bring forward Col Dawson in opposition. Also enclosing letter from Samuel Croker, Sub-Inspector, Carrickbeg, County Waterford, reporting on the excitement generated by the coming election; remarking on a meeting during which Winston Barron was warmly supported as a man fit to oppose the entrenched interest of Lord George Beresford; remarking, however, that despite Barron’s enthusiastic reception, the ‘independent interest’ may ultimately select Power O’Shea as their candidate; anticipating that during the election violence may be deployed by the common people to discourage Beresford’s supporters; adding that Daniel O’Connell will arrived in the town shortly and undertaking to report back on ‘his proceedings’; admitting his own responsibilities for keeping the peace and observing the coming election ‘will be the severest and most violent contest that ever took place in this County’.

2 May 1831-4 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/949

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Clonmel, [County Tipperary], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting that John [Hely] Hutchinson and Thomas Wyse are duly elected as MPs for the County Tipperary; indicating that he must travel to Dungarvan, County Waterford, to investigate a matter in which the chief constable is concerned; otherwise, he will make a trip to Dublin in the course of a couple of days.

12 May 1831

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