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CSO/RP/OR/1831/961

Letter by Walter Molony, Chief Constable, Ennis, [County Clare], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, reporting the apprehended of John Grady and Patrick Collins who are suspects in the murder of members of a police party which occurred at a location near Lisdoonvarna on the 4th of April; noting he left with a detachment of the 28th Regiment [of Foot] from Curranrue, and succeeded in making the arrest after a ‘very fatiguing march through the mountains of Burren’.

9 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/964

Letter from Brig Maj Daniel Mahony, Killarney, [County Kerry], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on the absence of the disruptive tendency that has marred the county of Clare; noting, however, that Lieut Morris of the Ballylongford yeomanry and some of the police did attract hostility for failing to illuminate their windows following the victory of O’Connell in County Clare; also commenting on a land clearance near Ballylongford to make room for two ‘wealthy farmers’; also adding in postscript that the author of a Terry Alt notice was discovered in the vicinity of Rosscarbery [County Cork], but made good his escape.

13 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/965

Letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, drawing to attention a conspiracy to take the life of Patrick Carroll, Chief Constable of Borrisoleigh in County Tipperary; enclosing letter from Carroll to Miller, referring to the risk to his life and sending a transcription [written overleaf] of an anonymous letter from ‘a Penitent’ warning ‘your doom is settled before the assizes’.

29 [May] 1831-4 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/966

File of documents concerning an affray in the village of Moynalty in County Meath. Includes letter from NH Pearce, Chief Constable, Kells, [County Meath], to George Despard, Sub Inspector General, Trim, reporting on the riot in Moynalty on the evening of the 21st of June; explaining the circumstances under which about 40 or 50 men, who, after attendance at a funeral, went to the house of publican Samuel Plant; remarking the men were ejected from the public house for fighting and they continued to fight on the streets; stating that three policemen intervened to attempt to stop the feud but they were rebuffed, and one of their number, Constable Thompson, received a fractured skull; adding that a shot was discharged by Constable Joseph Cox which wounded one of the ringleaders in the leg. Also affidavit of James Bryan, blacksmith, Curraghtown, indicating the observed the progress of the riot and sought to call the police but was prevented from doing so; adding he later saw a policemen ‘lying on the ground, and a Crowd about him’; sworn before Philip Smith and Richard Rothwell, magistrates.

22 Jun 1831-29 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/967

File relating to applications for remuneration in connection with the capture of two suspects in the murder of Maurice Flynn of County Cork. Includes petition of Michael Lynch, Cahermeeleboe, Castletown Berehaven, County Cork, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, referring to the murder of Flynn on the 31st of May by Daniel Crowley and Michael Crowley at a mountainous location near Castletown; outlining his exertions in having one of the perpetrators arrested and in tracking down the other who was concealed in a nearby house; observing that the second culprit fell into the hands of another party but insisting he was the person who made the discovery in the first instance; requesting payment of a reward. Also includes letter from Maj William Miller, [Inspector General of Police in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, discussing the several applications for compensation from men who claim to have assisted in the apprehension of Flynn’s murderers; stating that Michael Lynch, Jeremiah Harrington and James Harrington, are worthy applicants and ‘well qualified’ for employment in the coast guard; also confirming that two sons of Dennis Holohan are likely fit for service in the constabulary and adding that another seven men who assisted will receive £2 apiece; warning, however, over the intentions of the O’Sullivan family, who earlier gave appearance ‘of making a job of the affair’. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

8 Jun 1831-29 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/968

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Kerry, Tipperary and Limerick; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes extract of letter from [Benjamin] Jackson, Chief Constable, [Listowel, County Kerry], to Miller, reporting an illegal incursion by a number of armed men on a holding in use by Maurice Connell at Dromadamon on 25th of June; stating the intruders, who stated they were Lady Rock’s men from County Clare, forced three caretakers to take oaths and noting their intention was to drive all stock off the land; remarking that Connell had only recently taken possession of the farm and noting it is the subject of some legal proceedings at present, the former tenants having been ejected. Also includes memorial of John Hannigan of Ballylongford in County Kerry, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, complaining he came under attack by a mob of some forty to fifty persons at Kilrush Quay, County Clare; explaining the mob wished him to take them by boat to Scattery Island on the River Shannon for the purpose of plundering yeomanry arms held there; indicating that when he refused, the ‘midnight incendiaries’ cast him into the sea and ‘cut and destroyed the rigging of his boat’; requesting a situation under government. Also includes letter from William Smith, Sub-Inspector, Rathkeale, [County Limerick], to Miller, reporting his capture of some of the men who attacked the dwelling of Peter Bourke of Foynes Island on the River Shannon on 17th of April; stressing the need for police on both sides of the water to be sworn in as special constables and recommending that James Radford, Commander, ‘HMS Nimrod’, be invested with the commission of the peace for counties Limerick and Clare; also adding that a search was made by the Clare police for an individual named Reidy, in connection with an attack on a house for arms, and concluding the culprit was subsequently apprehended.

1 Jun 1831-16 Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/969

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 Westropp B Watkins, Chief Constable, Bandon, [County Cork], to Miller, reporting on the arrest of a vagabond who was engaged in the retail of certain papers of a political nature; adding that the boy was taken before two magistrates and is committed for trial, having ‘no fixed place of Residence’; enclosing copy of one of the papers found in his possession headed ‘Mr O’Connell’s Great Speech On the Persons Killed at Newtownbarry [County Wexford]’. Also includes letter from Robert Coote, Chief Constable, Dingle, County Kerry, to Miller, reporting an attack on the house of John Roughan in the village of Castlegregory on the 23rd of July; observing the dwelling was ‘pulled down’ and a man of the name of Darby Connor is suspected of acting in revenge, following a previous tussle with Roughan over ownership; adding that no information on the outrage was forthcoming from those occupying adjoining houses. Also includes extract of letter from Robert Thompson, Chief Constable, Borrisokane, [County Tipperary], to Miller, stating that a robbery took place on the night of the 21st of July at the homestead of Mr Noblades, agent to the Steam Boat Company, at Dromanier [Dromineer]; remarking the thieves got away with £15, a large quantity of plate and a gun; adding the assailants ‘drank some spirits’ and fired a shot that wounded ‘young Mr Noblades’.

10 Jul 1831-26 Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/970

File containing reports and supporting documents relating to outrages and disturbances perpetrated in the counties of Tipperary and Cork; compiled by Maj William Miller [Inspector General of Police in Munster]. Includes letter from John Wynne, Chief Constable, Skull, [Schull], County Cork, to Miller, reporting on the destruction by fire of a large rick of turf, belonging to a farmer named Donovan, of the parish of Kilcoe; indicating the outrage took place on the night of the 22nd of July and confirming that four men have been brought into custody in connection with the matter. Also includes letter from JB Kittson, Chief Constable, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to Miller, detailing the abduction of Mary Ann O’Brien from the residence of Nathaniel Barton by a man named Stafford O’Brien with aid from five others; explaining that the abductee is ‘an idiot’ and is entitled to an annuity of £60 per year; indicating the girl is sister to Stafford O’Brien while Barton is her brother-in-law and adding the gang also got away with a ‘case of Pistols and a large sum of money’. Also includes threatening notice issued to Thomas Mullamphy, who lives near Castle Otway, County Tipperary, warning him to give up a certain parcel of ground taken from a local widow or face death; with vignette below of coffin and long barrelled gun.

25 Jul 1831-5 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/971

Petition of James [H] Martin, Ennis, [County Clare], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, requesting issue of an order for the return of a selection of firearms taken during a raid on his property at Fountain on the 21st of March; noting the weapons are now in the police station in the town of Ennis, having been surrendered to the authorities.

25 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/972

Letter from Walter Malony, Chief Magistrate, Ardrahan, County Galway, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, offering an explanation of his own conduct in connection with a disagreement with the gaoler of Ennis [John D’Arcy] over use of the police to erect gallows at an execution at Corofin in County Clare; insisting he can verify on oath his various communications with the sub-sheriff [Robert George Greene] and pointing out the object of his present report is to prevent the ‘employment of the Police on such an occasion in future and the possibility of the reoccurrence of such a disgraceful scene’. Also letter from Malony, Ennis, [County Clare], to Gosset, noting he headed the escort of prisoners to the village of Corofin and complaining of the insubordination of the gaoler on that occasion.

29 Jun 1831-1 Aug 1831

1831