Castletown Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/59
1850 be accepted’.
21 Dec 1849 Resolution, in reply to a PLC letter, explaining that the temporary workhouse is 500 yards from Castletown, that it will accommodate 400 paupers, and setting forth the conditions of letting. 28 Dec 1849 Outdoor relief given to 113 persons [the first statistical return of relief recorded. Figures for workhouse relief begin to appear from 4 Jan 1850. It appears these figures include Castletown inmates in Bantry workhouse. See BG59/A/2 below] 4 Jan 1850 Letter read from the clerk of Bantry union regarding the value of property and goods ‘in reference to the adjustment of liabilities of the new unions of Bantry and Castletown’. 11 Jan 1850 PLC letter stating ‘the y are not able to authorise any advance from the funds for the building of a union workhouse, for the purpose of fitting up the temporary building’. Resolved, that advertisements be placed for supply of Indian cornmeal for the period up to 25 March ‘to be delivered at Adrigole, Iries, Castletown and Cahirmore and distributed according to the relieving officers’ tickets’. 18 Jan 1850 Resolution regarding the PLC’s refusal to sanction the appointment of Mr Spencer as clerk, owing to charges made by him against Mr Clarke, vice guardian of Bantry union, which they regard as ‘wholly unfounded’. The board note that Spencer produced testimonials from vice guardians including Clarke, and urge the PLC to reconsider, as they believe Spencer’s ‘long experience’ will assist them in dealing with ‘the present embarrassed state of the accounts of this union’. Resolved, that the commanding officer of the 3 rd Company of the 49 th Regiment at Thurles be informed that the wife of a private is a pauper inmate at Castletown, and that he be asked to seek to make provision for her expenses. 25 Jan 1850 Resolved, to ask PLC to permit paupers to be housed in the timber fever sheds, the workhouse being full, ‘as there has been no patients occupying them [ie, the sheds] for a considerable time, and as many of those poor creatures come a great distance and has to remain in town, awaiting the calmness of the weather and opportunity to be sent by boat to the Bantry workhouse’. [Total inmates this week: 609] Resolved, to request, ‘in conseq uence of the great distress which has for years past prevailed in this poor and remote district’, that the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland consider appointing an instructor to ‘this remote union’. [See also 22 Mar 1850]
9 Mar 1850 Contra ctors declared for supply of ‘clothing, provisions, and other necessaries’, for two months, following examination of tenders.
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