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IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
25 Jul 1851 Resolution requesting that the PLC ask the Treasury to extend the period of annual payments from 20 years to 40 years [advances to townlands made to date converted to annuities by legislation]. The board refer to the ‘peculiar circumstances’ of the union, noting much of it is by the sea coast ‘where the population is very dense and very poor, composed of small farmers and fishermen who during the years of distress through which we passed suffered severely from f ever and famine’. Relief loans, heavy rates to meet costs of inmates in other workhouses, and the building of the new workhouse are all cited as reasons for seeking the longer repayment term. [Repayment of townland annuities a recurring subject among unions. See, eg, 26 Sep 1851] 8 Aug 1851 Resolution seeking clarification from the PLC of ‘the terms on which the workhouse ground has been taken… so that the guardians may represent the nature of the tenure to Mr Griffith… [and] so that there may be no delay to taking possession of the house’. They also ask about water supply. [See also 5 Dec, reference to deed between PLC and the earl of Shannon] 5 Sep 1851 Resolution explaining to the PLC figures included in the rates for unoccupied houses. It is noted ‘as a general principle the greater number of the houses valued under £4 are going out of a state of repair and many will never again be occupied. Numbers of the small houses in Clonakilty which are built for the last 7 years have never yet been occupied’. Resolution asking that the 7 Clonakilty paupers in Dunmanway workhouse be transferred to Bandon and Skibbereen, to avoid expenses for the next half- year under the Reservation Order, their own workhouse being nearly ready.
3 Oct 1851 Resolved ‘that it is the will of this board to have its paupers in the new workhouse by the 1 st November’.
10 October 1851 Total inmates: 448 (Bandon: 305; Skibbereen: 143). Note records numbers of inmates on 6 Oct 1849 (818) and 5 Oct 1850 (546) [1849 figures also noted in ‘Observations’ on subsequent tables]. Resolved, that wokhouse officers be appointed on 24 Oct at stated salaries. 14 Nov 1851 First reference to supplemental minutes under the Medical Charities Act. [See 5 Dec, when the board resolves to propose three medical districts under the new bill: No 1 Rosscarbery, No 2 Clonakilty, No 3 Timoleague]. 5 Dec 1851 Rec eived, ‘Sealed order declaring workhouse fit for reception employment clasification and relief of destitute poor persons therein, dated November 29 th 1851’. P LC letter stating that Captain Huband states ‘that t here should be at least an accommodation for 1500 persons including the new workhouse’. [The board resolves that accommodation for 800 to 900 persons would be ‘an ample provision’, and would be provided by the workhouse ‘and the former fever hospital of Clonakilty which can be obtained at any time’.]
26 Dec 1851 Total inmates: 515 (Clonakilty: 477; Bandon: 28; Skibbereen: 10). [Inmates in Clonakilty, 19 Dec: 288; 12 Dec: 63; 5 Dec: 7].
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