Newspaper: Compensation Awards, Limerick 15 March 1884 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Limerick Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Mary Heaphy COMPENSATION AWARDS, LIMERICK 15-3-1884 The Gazette contains awards by the Lord Lieutenant, under the Crimes Act, of £25 compensation for injuries received by Patrick CULLUM, of Askeaton, Co. Limerick, on the 29th Aug. 1883; and of £350 to Honorah SPENCE, of Tullebeg, Coachford, Co. Cork, for the murder of her husband on the 14th Oct. 1883. 16-1-1883 At the Ballineety Presentments Sessions today a sum of £100 was granted as compensation to Mr. Samuel F. DICKSON, for the destruction of a dairy-house alleged to have been maliciously burned at Ballyvarra, near Murroe. Lord CLONCURRY was allowed compensation for the malicious injury to the boundary walls of farms from which tenants had been evicted. 18-1-1883 At Murroe Presentments Sessions today, a farmer named Matthew RYAN was allowed compensation for the malicious burning of his dwelling house and effects on the night of the 26th of Feb. at Tinmalariff. 28-12-1882 Mr. Robert WHEELER, of Pallasbeg, near Dromkeen Railway station, Co. Limerick, applied for £5000 compensation for the murder of his son, Henry WHEELER, near Oola, on the night of the 12th Nov. 1880. Mary Jane ROCHE, of Cross Road, Victoria Street, Dublin, applied for compensation for the murder of her husband, Robert ROCHE, of Cloverfield, near Dromkeen, on the night of the 17th April 1882. James MCKENNA applied for compensation for injuries inflicted on him on the night of the 18th of Nov. 1880, at or near Garranmore, near New Pallas, on which occasion he was employed as a caretaker, and was fired at and wounded.