People, Place and Power – The Grand Jury System in Ireland

40 Urgent repairs to bridges, gullets, drains and coastal and river defences were often performed without grand-jury approval, and the money claimed back at the next assizes (Fig. 16). Salaries of county officers were always paid in arrears. Fig. 16. Payment for repairing a ‘gullet’ or drain, Co. Wexford, summer 1818. Wexford County Archive, Grand Jury Presentments, County Wexford, 1817-23 (WXCA/P 436). Fig. 17. Road repair authorized at County Longford assizes, spring 1759. Longford County Library and Archives Services