Dunmanway Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/83
‘incapacity’ of the Board of Works in managing applications under the Land Improvement Act, intended employment has not occurred, and the board ‘must have recourse to out -door relief which would plague the union with all the miseries experienced last year’. [See special meeting, 10 Jan 1848] 11 Dec 1847 Resolution noting that as the workhouse is full [566 inmates], a house which will accommodate 200 children has been taken nearby, and it is asked how much of the 34 acres of land available should be taken, the board being anxious to provide employment to the able- bodied, to prevent ‘the entire property of this union from being eaten up by out- door relief’. 24 Dec 1847 Reply to a PLC letter regarding a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant from the parishes of Kilmichael and Macloneigh, denying that workhouse relief was refused to any applicant from Kilmichael, and referring to the attendance of relieving officers and present exertions to collect rates.
8 Jan 1848 PLC order limiting numbers in the workhouse to 500, in the additional workhouse to 60, and in the fever ward to 55.
22 Jan 1848 Resolutions (1) calling a meeting of all land and property holders to discuss destitution, employment, and relief in each ED; (2) explaining the taking of houses in the town to be boys dormitories; (3) Out-door relief to ‘about 130 persons’ to begin on Monday (depots at Dunmanway, Inchageela, Ballygurteen, Balnacarriga, and Inchacurkey); (3) that such relief be ¾ lbs per adult and ½ lb per child per day of Indian meal; (4) that the PLC sanction out- door relief ‘to widows with one child and to married women whose husbands have gone to England and to America’; (5) that additional accommodation be taken; (6) that PLC assent ‘to making taxation an electoral charge, as... an additional stimulus to land-holders to avail themselves of the provisions of the Land Improvement Act’. [See, eg, 29 Jan, 7 Feb] 12 Feb 1848 Total inmates: 757. Resolution, referring to ‘the partial success of the very limited portion of potatoes planted last season’ , explaining that unless seed potatoes are provided gratuitously or at a price affordable to the labouring classes, it will not be possible for them ‘to emerge from the deplorable position in which they have been placed by the late disastrous visitation of Providence’.
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