I have a few bits of information on Smyth/Smith in County Limerick. They may or may not be of interest to you but in case they are I have attached them below. I also have about 40 baptism records.
Vivien
Militia
Occasionally the men’s wives and children went with them when the militia was transferred but more often they remained behind. Church vestries were directed to meet within eight days of the departure of the militia to examine any cases of hardship caused to remaining families by the departure of their menfolk. The families might then be granted a weekly allowance of 2/- for a wife and 1/- for each legitimate child under ten years old to a maximum of 4/-. This allowance was only payable to families of volunteers and not to those of substitutes. On 16 June 1793 the Rathkeale vestry allocated money from the parish funds to two families of Palatine militiamen while the bread-winner was away. One of these was Margaret, wife of George Shouldice the drummer with the County Limerick Militia, who had two daughters, aged five years and three months old, and who was given £3.4.0 allowance, while the other was Anne (née Crips), wife of Corporal James Smith, who, for herself and her three sons, received £4.0.0.
Captain Rock
George Smith, a Palatine, of Whiskey Hall, a townland west of Shanagolden, County Limerick assisted in the apprehension of men who had attacked Mr Nunan the previous September [1823], eleven of whom had been transported. In punishment for this his house was burned in January 1824. Since Smith, his father and two brothers were the only Palatines living in an area occupied by Catholics, the police feared that they would be murdered. For their protection they were given arms and a guard of three policemen. Vokes reported that the Smiths were ‘very willing to assist the police in patrolling and preserving the peace of the neighbourhood’. They did not, however, escape the vengeance of the Rockites. On 20 January Smith received a threatening notice that he should leave the county within ten days or be murdered. Knowing that the banditti would make every effort to carry out their threat, he rode in desperation to Rathkeale to seek help. While he was gone his house and all his property was burnt to the ground -‘even to the children’s dresses, all their provisions and a cow and a dog’. It was only with the greatest difficulty that his wife, five children and two visitors, managed to escape being burnt to death. The plea for compensation, sent to the Under-Secretary, William Gregory, by Lieutenant Thomas Edward Wright, of the 39th Regiment in Shanagolden, stated that, ‘the whole of these sufferers are respectable protestants in a decent station of life as farmers’.
In October William Smith, chief constable in Rathkeale, who was also a Palatine worried about all night dancing-parties, such as the traditional November-eve party, and wondered how he could stop them as he believed that these gatherings were a front for other purposes. William Smith to Richard Willcocks, 25 October 1825. Since the potatoes were generally good that year, all remained peaceful through the winter and spring despite Smith’s worries.
Among the Palatine signatories to the Declaration against Repeal, 1830 were
Robert Smith, Shanagolden, and William Smyth, Ballylin.
