Castletown Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/59
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/59/A
Castletown Board of Guardians Minute Books
Scope and Content: A record of meetings and decisions made by the board of guardians in administering the workhouse and poor relief generally. At meetings, administrative, financial, rates, and medical books were examined, officers’ reports and committee findings heard, correspondence read and considered, and applications for admission decided on. Matters arising with regard to the workhouse, staff, provisions, bills, rate collection, the Poor Law Commissioners/Local Government Board, and other issues, were also discussed. The minutes also include weekly statistics of admissions, discharges, and deaths in the workhouse, and of outdoor relief. Gaps are indicated where they occur.
Date : 29 Oct 1849 – 8 May 1924 (Gaps)
Level : Series
Extent : 86 volumes
1.
29 Oct 1849 – 10 May 1850
Includes:
29 October 1849 Resolutions appointing relieving officers to the No 1 district (electoral divisions of Adrigole and Curryglass), No 2 district (EDs Bere, Killaconenagh, Kilamanagh), and No 3 district (EDs Coulagh, Kilcatherine); Resolved, that Bantry union be informed that there are premises in Castletown ‘capable of containing four or five hundred paupers, which can be had in case there be a pressure on the Bantry Workhouse’. [Only four guardians present at the first meeting]
9 Nov 1849 Resolved, that the clerk advertise for tenders for suitable accommodation for paupers until the Castletown workhouse is completed.
14 Dec 1849 Resolved, that, in view of the PLC’s direction that Castletown union pay two fifths of the costs of running and maintaining workhouses in the Bantry union, that the latter union be asked to pay proportionally the costs of any temporary workhouses in the Castletown union; Resolved, ‘that the offer made on the part of Lord Berehaven of the house and offices at Cametringane as a temporary workhouse until the 1 st August
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