Note From Michael Purcell: I believe the
following information represents only extracts
of letters etc, worth checking content at
National Archives, should contain her plea
letter etc..
National Archives of Ireland.
NAI Reference: CSO/RP/1818/42
Date(s): 13 Jul 1818-& 24 Jul 1818
Title: -Recommendation from William Saurin in
favour of Richard Thorpe for a situation of
employment under Government
Scope & Content: Letter from Sir Ulysses
Burgh, Sackville [O'Connell] Street, Dublin, to
William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle,
with enclosure from Richard Price, printer of
the ‘Carlow Morning Post’ and to recommend for
employment the name of Richard Thorpe of county
Carlow, who is ‘ready to give any security that
Government may require to the amount of £5,000’.
Annotation on rear suggests that position sought
by Thorpe is collector with revenue or a post
from a list given below that. Enclosed letter
from Price to Burgh requests intervention with
Gregory, in hope of securing ‘Insertion of
Government Advertisements and Proclamations’ in
the ‘Carlow Morning Post’ which is claimed to
circulate ‘in 4 Counties, where no other Paper
is printed’.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/1818/197
Date(s): 4 Aug 1818
Title: A Carter, Dublin: for response to
application for employment
Scope & Content: Letter from A Carter, 3
Chatham Street, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief
Secretary, Dublin Castle, asking for reply to
previous memorial and letter requesting
employment. Refers to promise respecting a post
made through the medium of Colonel Bruen, MP for
County Carlow.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/1818/274
Date(s): 14 Jan 1818
Title: Henry Harding, Auditor General’s
Office, Dublin: on tithes of parish of Aghade,
County Carlow
Scope & Content: Letter from Henry Harding,
Clerk of records, Auditor General’s Office,
Dublin, to Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle,
regarding ownership of tithes of parish of
Aghade, barony of Idrone, County Carlow.
Indicates that the tithes are in ‘Arrears of £40
or £50 of Rent’ and mentions impending legal
dispute between Mr Abbot and the solicitor of
the King’s Rents.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/1818/417
Date(s): 12 Aug 1818
Title: Benjamin Riky, Tullow, County
Carlow: on changes against Patrick Lynch,
Ballinvalley, County Meath
Scope & Content: Letter from Benjamin Riky,
Tullow, County Carlow, to William H Gregory,
Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle,
acknowledging receipt of petition of Patrick
Lynch, Ballinvalley, County Meath, relating to a
charge of theft, and confirming non-appearance
in court by Lynch and imposition of escheatment
order by judge Daly in the Crown Court.
Annotation on back reads: ‘Immediate.
Communicate this to the Sheriff of Meath and to
Mr Tighe’.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/1818/526
Date(s): 13 Oct 1818-30 Dec 1818
Title: William Parker, Limerick, County
Limerick: on outbreak of fever at Kanturk,
County Cork
Scope & Content: Letter from William Parker,
Limerick, County Limerick, to Charles Grant,
Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, regarding
outbreak of fever in neighborhood of Kanturk,
County Cork. Refers to meeting with Reverend
Jonathan Bruce, to whom he emphasised the ‘truly
awful condition of the poor who were labouring
under fever, and the impossibility of the Board
of Health procuring any place for their
reception’; mentions weakness of board and hopes
for measure of government assistance to
alleviate poor in district. Includes letter from
Parker, Castle Harrison, Charleville, County
Cork, to Grant, indicating intention of
providing report following investigation of the
state of the poor in surrounding counties
including Limerick, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford,
Carlow and Dublin. Also includes letter from
Parker, Passage West, County Cork, to Grant,
enclosing a letter to be forwarded to Lord
Clonbrock, for the attention of Mr Hare;
requests also that Grant will speak to Robert
Peel respecting the subject of the letter.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/1818/560
Date(s): 29 Jun 1818
Title: JS Rochfort, Clogrenan, County
Carlow: employment recommendation for Walter
Blakenny as magistrate for County Carlow
Scope & Content: Letter from JS Rochfort,
governor, Clogrenan, County Carlow, to Thomas
Lord Manners, Lord Chancellor, making
recommendation for appointment of Walter
Blakenny as magistrate for County Carlow. Also
includes letter from Rochfort to Blakenny,
Ballyellen Lodge, County Carlow, indicating that
a recommendation has been made on his behalf and
instructs that his solicitor is to make
application for the commission.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/1819/99
Date(s): 14 Apr 1819
Title: Letter from Henry Bruen, magistrate
for County Carlow, recommending Alderman James
for appointment as a Dublin police magistrate
Scope & Content: Letter from Henry Bruen, Oak
Park, County Carlow, MP for County Carlow, to
Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle,
recommending Alderman [J Kingston] James for the
vacant post of police magistrate for Dublin
city.
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Ref: CSO/RP/1819/92
April 1819.
Letter from Thomas Butler, County Wicklow,
concerning Mathew Thumpkin, a convict held in
Carlow jail
Letter from Thomas Butler, Colvinstown,
Baltinglass, County Wicklow, to Chief
Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, concerning a
prisoner in Carlow jail, Mathew Thumpkin,
awaiting transportation. Butler requests that
Thumpkin does not accompany the other convicts
to Cork, but stays behind, as he has useful
information which could assist the 'general
good' of the area. In particular, emphasises the
number of robberies in the area, 'There is
nothing safe here once night falls', and
believes this prisoner's information will be
significant in combating crime.
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National Archives of Ireland
Ref: CSO/RP/1819/149
1819 Clowry, Carlow.
Letter from Sir Ulysees Bagenal Burgh MP,
concerning request of Mary Clowry for free
passage to Botany Bay to join her husband
Letter from Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh, MP for
County Carlow, to Charles Grant, Chief
Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing petition of
Mary Clowry [not present], requesting government
to grant her a free passage to accompany her
husband to Botany Bay. States that her husband
received a 7 year sentence at recent Carlow
assizes for stealing sheep, 16 June 1819.
Annotation of draft reply by Charles Grant
states 'that there is no hope of success to her
prayer', July 26 1819.
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National Archives of Ireland.
Ref: CSO/RP/1819/181
Transportation 1819
Papers concerning case of John Doyle, held in
Wicklow jail, having returned from
transportation
Letter from William Curtis, Dublin, deputy clerk
of the crown for counties Wexford and Wicklow,
to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin
Castle, concerning John Doyle, currently being
held in Wicklow jail, after 'returning from
transportation'. Requests to know if government
wish Doyle to be charged and tried for
returning, or discharged, 22 July 1819.
Encloses letter on the subject from Richard
Archer, 78 Camden Street, Dublin, assistant to
Reverend Forster Archer, inspector general of
prisons, Ireland, addressed to Captain Nixon,
Nurney, Tullow, County Carlow, stating that
Doyle was pardoned, following his acting as a
witness at trial of the captain of the convict
ship 'Chapman', who ordered convicts in the hold
of his vessel to be fired on, killing 33 or 34
individuals. Requests that Nixon release Doyle
from Wicklow jail.
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National Archives of Ireland.
Ref: CSO/RP/1820/1404
May 1820.
Chief magistrates, Head Office of Police,
Dublin: issue of warrants for capture of persons
alleged to have taken part in outrage in County
Carlow
Letter from the magistrates, Head Office of
Police, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under
Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to indicate
that warrants have been issued in respect of
persons alleged to have taken part in an outrage
in County Carlow: also encloses copy deposition
of Edward Daly, carpenter, and Patrick Daly,
turner, both of 27 Garden Lane, Dublin, stating
that on the night of Sunday 23rd April their
house at Rathmore, County Carlow, came under
attack by a gang of men, some of whom declared
?We are the Boys that will Moll Doyle you?;
states that they were warned ?that if they and
their families did not leave their house before
morning it would be burned about them?;
implicates a number of local men in the outrage
including Thomas Neill, Thomas Donahue, Patrick
Finnegan, Mathew Finnegan, Hal [Lanten] and
Richard Boyce.
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National Archives of Ireland.
Ref: CSO/RP/SC/1821/1252
16 April 1821
Moll Doyles
Letter from John Staunton Rochfort, magistrate,
enclosing information on activities of the 'Moll
Doyles', County Carlow
Letter from John Staunton Rochfort, Clogrennan,
County Carlow, magistrate, to William Gregory,
Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 18 April 1821,
enclosing letter from Robert Eustace, Newstown,
County Carlow, to Rochfort, reporting on the
disturbed state of the lower part of barony of
Rathvilly, County Carlow, including the
activities of an armed banditti with 'blacked
faces'; also the posting of threatening notices
from 'Moll Doyles'. Also respecting his efforts
to locate Moses Davis, a Chelsea pensioner, 16
April 1821. Also encloses letter from John
Thomas Whelan, Clonmore Lodge, Clonmore, County
Carlow, half pay major, to Rochfort, reporting
on the activities of a 'formidable' armed
banditti 'under the title of Moll Doyles'.
Whelan proposes holding a meeting of loyal
inhabitants of the area, 16 April 1821.
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National Archives of Ireland.
Ref: CSO/RP/SC/1821/432
Revenge 1821.
Letter from Thomas Stratford Dennis, Fort
Granite, Baltinglass, County Wicklow,
magistrate, to William Gregory, Under Secretary,
Dublin Castle, reporting that a 'notorious
robber', James Feris [Faris], who was previously
sentenced at County Carlow assizes to
transportation, has escaped and returned to
Ireland, to seek revenge.
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National Archives of Ireland.
Ref: CSO/RP/SC/1821/582
21 Dec 1821
Letter from John Fitzmaurice, County Carlow,
recommending suppression of sale of gunpowder
Letter from John Fitzmaurice, Carlow, County
Carlow, to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin
Castle, suggesting measures to be adopted across
all the disturbed counties, including the
suppression of the sale of gunpowder.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/SC/1821/268
2 Nov 1821
Letter from William Cosby, brigade major of
yeomanry, reporting on state of counties
Kildare, Carlow and Wicklow
Letter from William Cosby, Crescent, Lucan,
Dublin, brigade major of yeomanry, to Charles
Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting
on his recent inspections of the yeomanry at
Monasterevin and Athy, County Kildare; and at
Carlow, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, and at
Canew, County Wicklow. Reports that whilst these
areas are largely tranquil, they are not free
from Ribbon activity.
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NAI Reference: CSO/RP/SC/1821/397
4 Jul 1821-5 Jul 1821
Letter from William Cosby, brigade major of
yeomanry, reporting on state of counties
Kildare, Carlow and Wicklow
Letter from William Cosby, Belvedere Place,
Dublin, brigade major of yeomanry, to William
Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle,
reporting on his recent inspection of the
yeomanry corps in Counties Kildare, Carlow, and
Wicklow, and stating that he found those areas
free from any disturbance or outrage, 4 July
1821. Postscript added to letter, 5 July 1821,
reporting news of outrages in County Kildare,
including an attack on police by a large 'mob',
in order to release 3 men who had been arrested;
and also the violent assault of a woman by 9
men, 'in consequence of her having sworn a Rape
some time since against a Man who has fled to
England'.
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National Archives of Ireland
Ref: CSO/RP/1822/836
16 Jul 1822
Reverend Samuel Roberts, Leighlinbridge,
County Carlow: for advance of public works
scheme to build road through Coolcullen
mountains
Letter from Reverend Samuel Roberts,
Coolcullen Glebe, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow,
to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle,
expressing discontent at delay in response to
application for aid to help local starving poor
by construction of road through Coolcullen
mountains: emphasises extent of need of those in
locality, many of whom ‘are assembling about my
door since six o’clock crying out for food’; in
addition he observes ‘now Disease is added to
distress’ no less than five died in one House
with Typhus fever in the course of a few days’.
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