Ballickmoyler
Carlow
December 16th 1846
I have the honor to report for the information
of the Inspector General with reference to the state of the people of the
District that their wants from scarcity of food have increased and are doing so
daily to rather an alarming extent. Sheep stealing and larcenies of all kinds
have very much increased and many of those employed in the Public works
particularly in the Colliery District give expression to their intentions by
Publicly Stating that they will not much longer submit to starvation, the Price
of Provisions is so very high and the wages which they are able to earn
being quite insufficient to supply their wants and those of their families, who
appear in the greatest distress add to which there are very few able to earn
any wages whatever since the frost set in and should it continue I really do
not know how they are to exist nor what unforeseen steps they may take to
procure food.
The Relief Committee of this District have
since the beginning of the season purchased whole meal which is sold out to the
Poor at something less than first cost. Still the wages earned are insufficient
to afford even a limited supply.
The foregoing statement I feel called on to
make owing to my own observations as also those of the Magistrates and other
respectable inhabitants of this District.
D. C. Jennings
2nd S. Insp.
Daniel was transferred to Tuam, County Galway.
His children Ignatius, Daniel, John and Ellen were all born
in Tuam. The baptisms of Ignatius,
Daniel and John are recorded in Tuam Cathedral. Charles, the eldest son, had
been born in County
Tipperary in 1848.
In 1853 his name appears in the Irish Prison Registers
Galway, a man arrested ‘having in his
possession several articles of clothes property of D.C Jennings Esqr. S. I.
Police at Tuam.’
By 1858 he was Sub-Inspector of Constabulary in Tramore.
Kate, Mary, Joseph, and possibly Sophia, were born in Tramore.
In 1865 he was transferred to Wexford to replace Inspector Wray.
The Constabulary - First
Class Sub-Inspector Daniel Corley Jennings, Tramore, has been promoted to
Second-class County Inspector and transferred to County Wexford
to occupy the post vacant by the death of the late much-esteemed Inspector, Mr
Wray. Mr Jennings
comes amongst us preceded by a high reputation, and from what we have heard of
him we have no doubt that he will discharge his duties with ability and
impartiality.
It was a short appointment. In 1867 he appears in the Clare
Electoral Register. The family was living in Church Street, Ennis –
a house office yard and small garden in Church Street.
By 1868 he was County
Inspector in Ennis, County Clare.
On the 31st January 1870 Daniel’s fifth son
Joseph died in Ennis. He had been born in Tramore in 1859. He is buried in Drumcliff Cemetery,
Ennis, County Clare.
Erected by DC Jennings C.I. In memory of his son Joseph who
died at Ennis January 31st 1870, aged 10 years. May he rest in peace, Amen.
In 1871 Daniel became the executor for Pierse Ronayne
[1791-1871], Beresford Street,
Waterford. Pierse Ronayne was his
maternal uncle and had left many bequests including one hundred pounds to the
Reverend Nicholas Cantwell, Parish Priest at Tramore, as a donation towards the
completion of the new Catholic Church there.
By 1873 Daniel was County Inspector
in Clontarf.
Letter from D. C. Jennings Esqr, Co. Inspr., Royal Irish
Constabulary, Clontarf, 1st July 1873.
The Pump at
Blanchardstown is now dry and the little water that comes out of it in the
morning is unfit for human use and requesting that directions may be given to
have the deficit remedied as soon as possible.
To be informed that
the Board are in communication with a Tradesman on the subject.
Letter from D. C. Jennings Esqr, Co. Inspr., Royal Irish
Constabulary, Clontarf, dated 17th August 1873.
Stating in reference
to his letter of the 1st of July last relative to the defective supply
of water to be had from the pump at Blanchardstown which has not yet been
remedied and hoping that the Guardians will see the absolute necessity of
placing the Pump in working order without further delay.
The Board has taken
the necessary means as to this,
Letter from Danl Murphy Pump Borer 123 Coombe dated 19
August 1873
Stating as he had a
good deal of trouble and lost time about Blanchardstown and not getting it, he
will thank the Guardians for the Amt of his
a/c sent namely 17/8-
Letter from D. C. Jennings Esqr, Co. Inspr., Royal Irish
Constabulary, Clontarf, dated 18th November 1873.
Stating that the
supply of water from the Pump at Blanchardstown is still defective being unfit
for use as it becomes quite red after being some time taken from the Pump owing
to the old rusty pipes having been again put down.
Inform Co. Inspector that Chairman with Capt. Brinkley y and he
on Monday was at Blanchardstown, and they think that on a sufficient quantity
of water being pumped out the water supply will then be good.
You have to wonder was it ever fixed!
Grave 905 Memorial
ID 80451449.
