Castletown Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/59
and poverty of the vast territory lying between Bantry on the south and Kenmare river on the north; that in said district there are 23 electoral divisions scheduled as congested, and that for the poor of this vast and barren region government has done nothing or next to nothing’. 29 Nov 1894 Letter from the Register General regarding the special inspection of the union’s register office and ‘strong closet’, and the recommendations made to ensure ‘the important records deposited in the custody of the superintendent registrar may be preserved from permanent injury’.
13 Dec 1894 Ordered, ‘that a Christmas dinner similar to the one provided last year, be procured for the inmates of the workhouse’.
3 Jan 1895 Resolution , in view of the fact that land occupiers ‘are generally unable, through poverty and the failure of the potatoe crop, to secure an adequate supply of seed potatoes’, notifying the LGB of th e board’s intention to apply for a loan to purchase seed potatoes,. The view is expressed that potatoes supplied under the Seed Acts 1890-91 were unsatisfactory, and that ‘a good may farmers who would otherwise be more than thankful to avail themselves of the provisions of a seed supply act will be very slow to do so if the seed be procured from the same counties again’. [See also 17 Jan, in which LGB explain that loans may not be given for purchase of seed ‘which has been grown in Ireland in or near a dist rict affected by the disease’. In response, the board resolve that they ‘are not prepared to take any but Scotch Grown Seed Potatoes ’. See also 31 Jan , containing seed inspector’s report]. 21 Feb 1895 Resolved, that a relieving officer be suspended, following letters from one of his sureties withdrawing from that role ‘under circumstances which have transpired latterly’. Deputation of the people of Trafask received, stating that they are ‘in a very destitute condition’ and requesting that construction of a boat slip in the townland again be proceeded with. Resolution in support passed. A further resolution refers to ‘the acute distress at present prevailing in several electoral divisions of the union and especially that of Curryglass ’, noting ‘unless immedi ate employment be given, serious consequences may be dreaded’, and calling for construction of a boat slip and completion of a road.
63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73.
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