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

About Beyond 2022	4
Contents	6
Foreword	8
Introduction: The Origins of theGrand Jury in Ireland	10
Part 1 People, Place and Power	14
1.1. People	16
The Grand Jury: Composition and Membership	16
County Roscommon’s Grand Panel, 1828–30	18
County Roscommon, distribution of panellists and jurors	24
The County Establishment	24
1.2. Place	26
1.3. Power	34
Part 2 Sources for the Grand Jury in Ireland	38
2.1. Destruction and Survival	40
‘Flame observed through the glass roof’	40
2.2. Civil records: presentments books and abstracts, query books and financials	42
Contents of a presentment book	44
Funding approved presentments	48
2.3. Judicial records: assizes court books	50
Conclusion	52
Further Reading	56
Notes	56
Local Government Archivists and Records Managers	60

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