The Conway & Clohessy Tree

Source Information
Ancestry.com. Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, 1873-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
Original data: Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions PMG 48. The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England.

About 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.