Castletown workhouse Board of Guardians (BG59)

Castletown Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/59

Arrangement The collection consists of series of minutes, including a large series of minutes of meetings of the board of guardians, two volumes of ‘rough’ minutes, and one volume of Castletown Dispensary committee minutes. The arrangement of Board of Guardian records is based on that devised for Poor Law records nationally by Sean McMenamin of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (see Appendix 2 to McMenamin’s article in Irish Archives Bulletin Vol 1, No 2, October 1971). Please note that gaps occur.

Headings

1. Minute Books

A1- 88 AA1-2

Board of Guardian Minute Books

1849-1921 (86 items) 1874-75; 1894 (2 items)

Board of Guardians Rough Minute Books Castletown Dispensary Minute Book

AJ1

1852-1892 (1 item)

Conditions of Access & Use

Access : Open by appointment to those holding a current reader ’ s ticket.

Language: English

Finding Aids: Summary descriptive list.

Allied Materials:

Related Material

CCCA:

Board of Guardian records for other poor law unions in County Cork, esp Bantry (BG/43) Cork County Boards of Health and Public Assistance records, 1921-66 Castletown Rural District Council records, 1899-1925 Cork County Council records, 1899- (including rates valuation books)

Elsewhere:

National Archives of Ireland:

Archives of the Poor Law Commissioners Archives of the Local Government Board in Ireland Archives of the Department of Local Government

© Cork City and County Archives 2011

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