Dunmanway Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/83
19 Jun 1847 Resolution, in response to warrants from Dublin Castle ordering the collection of £6631, to be paid to electoral divisions under the Temporary Relief Act, stating ‘that any attempt to enforcement of much larger sums [ie, larger than poor rates] would at the present juncture be utterly hopeless’. 3 Jul 1847 Reply to PLC letter regarding the dietary for the sick, expressing the view that the best course would be for the board ‘to relinquish all discretion... by order from Superior Authority ’ and purchase all the expensive foodstuffs cont emplated by the PLC, even though the cost would ‘materially abridge the probably short period during which it will be possible to keep open the doors of their union’. 14 Aug 1847 Letter from the medical officer regarding the ‘immediate necessity’ of reconsidering the present dietary. He notes ‘the numbers in hospital some time since with dysentery & co were over 200 and their reduction this week to 90 will at once prove that change of food is of paramount importance’. He adds that dietary supplied ‘in a s eason of distress ought now to be changed to a more grateful and cooling one’. 18 Sep 1847 Resolution proposing that paupers in future be charged to each electoral division, not to the union at large. [See 15 Mar 1845, 25 Mar 1848] Resolution expressing regret that Rev James Burke has been appointed curate in Dunmanway, and has been found to have acted as workhouse chaplain, despite having been convicted in 1838 ‘for conspiracy to swear away the life of an innocent man’. They have directed that he no longe r be admitted.
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2 Oct 1847 – 19 Feb 1848
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16 Oct 1847 Reply to PLC letter, explaining why 6 children were transmitted by cart from Dunmanway to Bandon union. [Total inmates: 301]
13 Nov 1847 Resolved, that a special meeting be held to consid er the ‘urgent necessity’ for increased accommodation and the propriety of giving out door relief. It is further resolved that the three relieving officers attend at stated villages on stated days. It is noted ‘a number of able -bodied persons assembled during the time of the meeting... and wanted admission’. They were asked to attend on Monday with their wives and children. (At the adjourned meeting, men again presented themselves without families and were rejected. Three single men admitted ‘immediately be came refr actory and disobedient’ and were put before magistrates and sentenced to a month’s hard labour). 20 Nov 1847 Resolutions (1) asking that the rate be collected in two parts, now and in February, to mitigate ‘a heavy pressure’ on ratepayers which m ay ‘extinguish, all agricultural exertion’; (2) asking for prompter payment of advances under the Land Improvement Act, work under which is regarded as the main check on destitution following the cessation of relief funds.
27 Nov 1847 Resolution thanking the Lord Lieutenant for the sending of an agricultural instructor to the west riding of Cork, but noting that owing to the
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