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I found a Mathew Rickards in the East India company.

https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_detail.php?id=1669625

https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_detail.php?id=655272
(also attached)

The time frame is correct, around 1830. There is a comment that says
"Names extracted from Embarkation Lists of Officers and Soldiers of the British Army (4th L Dragoons, 2nd Regt) and their families, plus, Passengers and Lists of the Ships Crew."

Would anyone have any idea if this could possibly include the Rifles?

Thank you for your replies about Mathew Rickard.

@GrahamSimons
Thank you, I checked out that link. It said there were some online records at the findmypast website. I subscribed (one week free trial) and I searched for him there. I didn't find anything. I suppose the next step is to visit Kew, or pay someone to search for me.
Thanks for the tip about NCOs, I had no idea if this is a difficult or easy search. It seems to be possible that there are no records.

@ShaunJ
Thanks for looking.

@Ashtone Thanks for that, I actually have it already. After Wexford he was in Dublin and then Killarney Asylum. I have a lot of info after 1842, but almost nothing from before 1842. Apart from a bakery 1837-1839, I have nothing. His estimated birth year is 1808, so he could have been in the army any time from say 1826 to 1837. I cannot find any birth record, or anything at all, before 1837.
In case anyone searches, there was a Mathias Rickard who was a baker in Dublin 1795-1830. He was the father of this Mathew Rickard. Actually this Mathew is really named Mathias, I think, but he seems to often be Mathew.

Those are all incredible, thank you all so much.

Hi,

There is a Matthew Rickard listed here

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16514088

on a ship.

Hello,

There is a registry of freeholders in Cavan in 1825 here:

http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/file/Local-Studies/Library-Scanned-Docs/Registry-of-Freeholders-in-the-County-of-Cavan.pdf

Does anyone know if there is a similar list for Meath?