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CSO/RP/1820/125

Petition of Philip Barnes, late Lieutenant, Royal Meath Regiment of Irish Militia, Post Office, Cork, County Cork, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment as chief peace officer of police. Refers to seven years service in the army and necessity of supporting his wife and children. Also includes letter from Mary Ann Barnes, 5 Great Britain [Parnell] Street, Dublin, to Talbot requesting appointment of her husband to post of chief constable of police in the Barony of Raphoe, County Donegal; refers to her father's loyalty in the 1798 Rebellion and that ‘he even turned his own Dwelling House into a guardhouse’.

Apr 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/126

Letter from W Burton, sheriff, Clifden near Corofin, County Clare, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making recommendation for Francis Huddy for post of chief constable or officer in revenue police. Remarks that in the past he was employed as a hearth money collector and later as part of the yeomanry; stresses that he is dependable and loyal but as ‘a Protestant, he has suffered much these many years: tho industriously inclined, his attempts to support himself as an agriculturist have been continentally thwarted in a neighbourhood where the jealously of popery is very active, and when employed against the poor, very efficient’.

3 May 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/127

Letter from Reverend William Ball, [Church of Ireland rector of Dungannon and inspector of gaols, County Armagh], Armagh, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing list of prisoners in the gaol of Armagh with observations [not extant] and to offer some observations on limitations of accommodation at the jail.

4 May 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/128

Letter from Edward J Bruce, half pay lieutenant, 60th Foot Regiment, Portumna, County Galway, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting a post of civil employment. Mentions military service in Spain and France, and that he ‘was twice wounded at the Battle of Toulouse’.

9 May 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/129

Letter from Dr Francis Barker, secretary, Board of Health, 22 Bagot Street, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing fifty copies of ‘Queries relating to those circumstances which affect the health of poor of Ireland resident in the Country’ [not extant] for circulation amongst MPs. Includes letter from Barker to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing copy of ‘Queries proposed to Gentlemen residents in the Country by the General Board of Health’ asking that he add ‘additions or alterations’; with reply from Grant, Irish Office, London, making few observations on document; encloses copy of ‘Queries’ document which provides investigation of state of Irish poor under the headings: ‘Dwellings of the Poor’, ‘Clothing of the Poor’, ‘Diet of the Poor’, ‘Fuel of the Poor’, ‘Employment’, ‘Contagion’, and ‘Endemic and General Disease’.

12 May 1820-1 July 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/130

Petition of Bantry Bay Fishery Association, Bantry, county Cork, to the Lords of His Majesty’s Treasury, requesting adjustment in terms under which salt is supplied to poor fishermen in the district.

31 May 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/131

Letter from John Cossart, secretary, Ballast Office, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, confirming that a copy of account of expenditure by the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin, for purposes of erecting, repairing and maintaining lighthouses around the coast of Ireland, from 5 January 1819 to 5 January 1820, will be transmitted to the Lord Lieutenant.

2 Jun 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/80

Letter from Robert Alexander, 22 Sackville [O'Connell] Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post on Paving Board. Mentions that he has £200 per year compensation as commissioner of the former board, and that sum might be saved to government should he be offered employment; also purports to be a son of Sir William Alexander ‘the father of the City’.

19 Dec 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/81

File of material relating to application for post of chaplain of House of Industry from Reverend Arthur Smyth Adamson, curate, Parish of St Paul’s and minister of Grangegorman, with address at 7 Blackhall Street, Dublin. Includes letter from Adamson to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, with observation that ‘the late appointment of the Roman Catholic Curate of the Parish to the Chaplaincy of the Penitentiary (already Chaplain to the House of Industry) marks strongly the precedent of employing the officiating clergyman and I trust and hope that as Protestant Minister of the same Parish I am equally entitled to consideration’, 2 September 1820; also includes letter from Adamson to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, stressing that he has been serving the House of Industry for almost five years ‘during prevalence of the Typhus Fever in this City’ and that his application has support of the Archbishop of Tuam, 31 August 1820; also includes letter from Adamson, 15 Blackhall Street, Dublin, to Christopher Adamson, Newborough, County Limerick, requesting assistance with application and revealing that he would ‘be content with either the Inspectorship or the Chaplaincy’ of the Richmond General Penitentiary, 5 June 1819; also includes petition, character reference and other documentation.

5 Jun 1819-2 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/82

Letter from William Saurin, Attorney General, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, with observations regarding papers of H Kearney.

1 Jan 1821

1821