Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, 1873-1925

Historical Context

The Royal Irish Constabulary was an eighty-percent Irish Catholic police force which, between 1814 and 1922, employed some eighty-five thousand men. This collection comprises the records of pension payments to retired officers, their widows and children.

This Collection

For each record, details given include, where available:

• Full names of officers
• Rank
• County
• Date of authority
• Date of commencement
• Pension per annum
• Where paid

For deceased officers, it provides the names of their widows and children, and how much they each received in allowances each month or a quarter. Some volumes contain records of five offices’ payment details for three consecutive years on a single page. Other volumes record widows’ and children’s payment details for a year, with three families on each page. It also records the officer's date of death in his/her yearly payment details section.