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CSO/RP/OR/1831/950

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Waterford and Limerick; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from Lieut Francis Percy, Chief Constable, Newcastle, County Limerick, to Miller, rebuffing a report of land being turned up in the vicinity of Abbeyfeale; seeking to discover the author of the original report to government, and speculating the ‘object was to get troops there’; noting, however, some turning up of ground occurred in the vicinity of Croom and Kilmallock, on the townland of Coolrus and also that of Lissurland, the latter of which was caused by ‘private malice’. Also includes letter from [Darby] Mahony, Chief Constable, Dungarvan, County Waterford, to Miller, reporting that night meetings are held by the lower orders in the vicinity of [Slievequin], also called the ‘Old Parish’; noting the object of the meetings is to withhold payment of tithe arrears due to Rev Ponsonby Carew, rector of Ardmore, for the years 1825 and 1826; remarking that bills have been filed for the recovery of same in the Court of Exchequer against 260 persons.

29 Apr 1831-9 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/951

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Tipperary and Kerry; 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 an outbreak of riot or faction fighting at the fair of the town of Kanturk; noting the combatants were of the Daley and Collins families and several injuries to persons were caused by stones; adding that a number of men were arrested and brought before the magistrate, Rev John Emanuel Orpen. Also includes letter from JB Kittson, Chief Constable, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Miller, detailing the burning of the dwelling houses of John Hallinan and John Godfree [Godfrey] at Tiermoyle, by an armed party of about four persons; remarking the police at Castleotway arrested two persons in connection with the attack, Maliky [Malachy] Ryan and Timothy Dwyer; adding it is suspected the arson was due to both victims being lately employed by Cornelius Hogan, ‘in room of the former caretaker’ on his lands.

30 Apr 1831-10 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/952

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 Westropp B Watkins, Chief Constable, Bandon, [County Cork], to Miller, reporting on the appearance of threatening notices in the town; observing privately that the level of alarm in the district is not so great as to warrant the presence of a permanent military party and stressing his suspicions that certain ‘Inhabitants of this town and particularly the Shopkeepers have been anxiously looking out for a Detachment of the Military to be quartered here’; also copy of threatening notice calling for the abolition of ‘abominable taxes’ in the county, signed by ‘Terry Alt’. Also includes letter from Francis Crossley, Chief Constable, Kanturk, County Cork, to Miller, reporting on the activities of nocturnal horsemen around the neighbourhood of Newmarket; stating that horses were taken for a couple of days from owners in the locality and returned later; adding that two local magistrates, William Allen and [Menus] O'keefe, have signed a requisition calling for a meeting to consider the state of the district.

13 May 1831-21 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/953

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Tipperary, Kerry and Limerick; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from [Benjamin] Jackson, Chief Constable, Listowel, County Kerry, to Miller, reporting on the activities of a mob of disaffected persons in the village of Ballylongford who called for the inhabitants to provide illuminations; remarking the mob smashed the windows of those who refused to comply and later turned their wrath against the police barracks and the men inside; adding that charges were raised against the ringleaders at Tarbert petty sessions; also reporting on a procession of near ‘fifty men decorated with Green Sashes and Cockades’ who marched between Ballylongford and Tarbert, ‘in regular military style with music’. Also includes letter from JB Kittson, Chief Constable, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Miller, reporting on a serious altercation at the fair of Toomavara, between two factions who ‘did not cease fighting for about two Hours’; remarking the combatants refused to listen to the parish priest or his curate and a number of those involved received superficial cuts from ‘blows of sticks’; also reporting that a man named Patrick Cusker was attacked outside the town and now appears unlikely to survive; adding that ground turned up by the Terry Alts in the district around Doohara has now been restored by the peasantry.

9 May 1831-30 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/954

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork and Limerick; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from Alfred Edward Ashton, [Chief Constable], Cashel, [County Tipperary], to Mr Jameson, reporting an attack on Capt Langley of Brittas who was travelling by car from the town of Clonmel; observing his attackers shot the horse ‘through the neck’ and wounded Langley with a couple of slugs; adding they robbed him of a gold watch, coat and a ‘case of duelling Pistols’. Also includes letter from Cap JH Lawson, Chief Constable, Kinsale, [County Cork], to Major John Gallwey, Sub-Inspector, County Cork, reporting on a visit to the town of Kinsale by John Lawless of the Catholic Association; remarking that Lawless attracted a crowd of 1000 people and he addressed them outside the residence of Mr Taylor and again at the George Hotel; stating he urged the people to oppose all corporate monopolies and unite together for a repeal of the union. Also includes letter from Francis Crossley, Chief Constable, Kanturk, County Cork, to Miller, reporting an attack on the dwelling of Daniel Keefe of [Ballydineen] on the night of 21st of May; indicating that Keefe’s place was residence to a number of men who were employed as overseers on the new line of road from Newmarket to Castlelisland Lodge [County Kerry]; remarking their attackers ordered them to employ local men or give up the work.

27 Apr 1831-31 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/956

Letter from Luke Gardiner MacDonnell, magistrate, Graig, County Kilkenny, to Col Sir John Harvey, [Inspector General of Police], expressing concern over a reduction in the number of policemen serving in the locality; deploring their ‘defenceless situation, left here with only four men’ and stressing the recent damage done to property in the vicinity by the ‘infuriated rabble’; remarking that only yesterday, he and another gentleman, were pursued by a mob of four or five hundred persons armed with ‘sticks & stones’; adding that the spirt of the people has been inflamed by the local elections and asking that ‘a sufficient force’ be sent ‘without delay’.

13 May 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/957

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Tipperary, Kerry and Limerick; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from Robert Coote, Chief Constable, Dingle, [County Kerry], to Miller, reporting on the destruction by fire of a dwelling and out house belonging to William Shea of the parish of Ballinvoher; remarking some sheep were destroyed in the blaze and some articles of clothing consumed in the dwelling; observing the victim ‘is very unpopular in that quarter’ due to his part in the apprehension of a number of persons ‘for forcible possession’. Also includes letter from [Benjamin] Jackson, Chief Constable, Listowel, County Kerry, to Miller, reporting on a procession through the town of Listowel for the purpose of cutting a maypole which was to be presented to William R Hillard of [Ballyhorgan] ‘as a token or compliment’; giving a description of the men who walked in procession ‘with ribbons and carrying Banners’; noting the advice to those gathered of local priest, Rev W Mahony, to disperse, and indicating that Capt John Hewson, read the Riot Act; adding that a different party assembled in a nearby location and procured a tree, upon which they placed ‘a large white flag’, despite the protestations of Hewson. Also includes letter from [Henry] Brownrigg, Chief Constable, Doneraile, [County Cork], to Miller, reporting an attack on the house of David Gregg of Tinnascart, near Buttevant, by a group of four men; indicating they assailants came in search of arms or money, but not finding either they subjected the man and his wife to a ‘savage’ beating; adding that Gregg had earlier sold some livestock at the fair of Liscarroll for which he received £14 and had initially encountered the four suspects outside that place.

29 May 1831-4 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/958

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 William Smith, Sub-Inspector, Rathkeale, [County Limerick], to Miller, reporting a case of intimidation on a pensioner named Smith of the 16th Regiment [of Foot] at his residence in the town of Askeaton; stating that two men came to Smith’s abode and warned him to leave his house because, they alleged, he was a ‘stranger’ to the area; concluding the perpetrators have now been arrested. Also includes letter from Patrick Carroll, Chief Constable, Borrisoleigh, [County Tipperary], to Miller, providing details of an attack on livestock belonging to Philip Magrath of the parish of Mealiff [Moyaliff]; remarking that a colt and six cows, valued at £70, ‘were maliciously Houghed’; adding that Magrath was the subject of a similar attack some four years earlier, and concluding that both incidents are linked to animosity over his present tenure, from which the widow Hayes was evicted about 12 years earlier.

6 Jun 1831-20 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/959

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Limerick; 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 on the house of Christopher O’Brien of the parish of Carrig by a group of about four men; stating that two gunshots were discharged, one of which wounded the dog, the other was fired in the direction of the door; concluding the attack on the household was made by ‘strangers’ who were acting ‘in League with O’Brien’s Labourers’; also copy of threatening notice addressed to O’Brien warning him to feed the labouring men he employs, otherwise he will be visited with ‘the most tremendous tortures that was ever recorded in History’. Also includes letter from Samuel Croker, Sub-Inspector, Carrickbeg, County Waterford, to Miller, enclosing copy of a threatening notice that was placed on the gate of the military barracks of Carrick on Suir; observing ‘I have no doubt these Notices have been put up by certain Shopkeepers in this town whose business has fallen off in consequence of the troops having been withdrawn’; notice warns the barracks will be burned down and asks what is the point of the ‘Peelers’ guarding Mr and Mrs Monks; adding ‘send him home to the Devil and his old Congubine [Concubine]’.

17 Jun 1831-30 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/960

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, enclosing a letter from Francis Crossley, Chief Constable, Kanturk, [County Cork], reporting that his district is largely free from disturbance; stressing that the poor are ‘industrious’, do not appear to be in possession of firearms, nor are they participating in illegal meetings; revealing that the agent to Lord Arden [Charles George Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden], whose name is Smith, is ‘easily alarmed’ and may be inclined to exaggerate his reports on the state of the country; adding that Arden is keen to have a military installation at Newmarket, in which district he has property. Enclosing copy of affidavit from Samuel Gilman, complaining of the theft of a mare from a field in the vicinity of Newmarket, and later discovered in a place about five miles away; also affidavit of Connor Collins, stating that he also had a mare taken, later found some two miles away; also affidavit of Thomas Homan, conveying that his maid heard the passing of a large number of horses on the night of 11th of May; also affidavit of James Sherwood, constable, reporting that while on patrol in the district of Mienshall [Meeshal] he heard ‘a confused noise of voices’ in a place not far from Homan’s property; all sworn before the magistrates of Kanturk.

19 May 1831-6 Jun 1831

1831