Castletown Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/59
time past’. [See also 12 July 1850]
12 Jul 1850 PLC letter ‘requesting that the amount of accommodation reserved in the Bantry Union for paupers from this union, and the number of paupers who are there, should in future be shewn in the return at the head of the minutes from this board’. [See note above and 3 Jan 1851 below]
26 July 1850 Resolved, to advertise for a schoolmistress, there being about 80 female children in the auxiliary workhouse.
16 Aug 1850 Ordered, that the clerk advertise for a master tailor ‘who will be required to instruct some of the pauper boys’ and who will cut out and superintend the making of men’s and boys’ clothing. 23 Aug 1850 Response to PLC letter forwarding an estimate of nearly £200 for furniture for the workhouse. It is explained that payment would reduce the board ‘to complete financial embarrassment’, reference being made to ‘the distressed state of the union’ and ‘the total failure of the people’s foods’. 6 Sep 1850 Resolved, that Bantry workhouse be directed to discharge able- bodied male paupers over 15, being unmarried or having only two dependents, and belonging to the ED of Killaconenagh ‘and send them to Mr William Gillman for employment’. [See also 20 Sep 1850] Ordered, that Bantry workhouse send t o Castletown 15 women ‘ and any girls from 9 to 15 who may be in the house’. 13 Sep 1850 Resolved, that in view of ‘the very great depression in the value of land ’ , a revisor of rates be appointed. Resolved, ‘that the b oard consider the average cost of the patients in Infirmary to be excessively high’, which they attribute to too many being placed on ‘extra diet’, that the medical officer be asked to take ‘such measures consistent with the health of the patients’ to redu ce costs. [See also 20 Sep] 20 Sep 1850 Resolved, that the salaries of relieving officers be reduced to £20 a year, and that a separate officer for Bere Island be discontinued, owing to ‘the stoppage of out door relief and the diminished distress in this union’. 27 Sep 1850 Ordered, ‘That John Sullivan and Margaret Crowley with their families be discharged from the workhouse, having received money from America’.
18 Oct 1850 Statement of charges preferred against the master by William Gillman, guardian. [See subsequent minutes]
1 Nov 1850 Letter from TW Payne, Castletown, read complaining of large crowds [of members of the public] attending early mass at the auxiliary workhouse. He notes: ‘this is most irregular and opens a door to plunder’.
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