Dunmanway workhouse Board of Guardians (BG83)

Dunmanway Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/83

Arrangement The collection consists of a series of minutes of meetings of the board of guardians, and three rough minute books, which supply gaps in the main series of 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).

Headings

1. Minute Books

A1- 108 AA1-3

Board of Guardian Minute Books

1839-1924 (105 items) 1865-1879 (3 items)

Rough Minute Books

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 West Cork (BG/42 Bandon; BG/43 Bantry; BG/59 Castletown; BG/65 Clonakilty; BG/115 Macroom; BG/145 Schull)

Cork County Boards of Health and Public Assistance records, 1921-66 Dunmanway Rural District Council records, 1899-1920 (RDC/83) 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 for Ireland Archives of the Department of Local Government

Archivist ’ s Note: Timmy O Connor Local Government Archivist, CCCA October 2011

Cork City and County Archives 2011

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