BG/65
IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/65/A
Clonakilty Board of Guardians Minute Books
Scope and Content: A record of meetings and decisions made by the board of guardians in administering the workhouse and poor relief generally. At meetings, officers’ reports and committee findings were heard, correspondence read and considered, and applications decided on. Matters arising with regard to the workhouse, staff, provisions, bills, finance, the Poor Law, the Poor Law Commissioners, the Local Government Board and the Local Government Department, and other issues, were also discussed. The minutes also include weekly statistics of admissions, discharges, and deaths in the workhouse, and of outdoor relief. Note: the earliest volume present came to light after the other volumes had been numbered and packaged, and so was given the reference number BG/65/A/1a, being following by BG/65/A/1, BG/65/A/2, and so on.
Date : 10 May 1850 – 25 Apr 1924
Level : Series
Extent : 75 volumes
1a.
10 May 1850 – 27 Dec 1850
The volume is indexed. Includes:
10 May 1850 Finance Committee report considered regarding the necessity for a hospital for feve r patients in Clonakilty, and ‘the ad visability of withdrawing our paupers from the Skibbereen and Dunmanway Unions to auxiliary houses to be provided in Clonakilty’. [See also 17 May 1850, when the matter is deferred, ‘it not appearing to this board that any extraordinary fever or sickness prevails at present, and that we have ample room for our destitute poor in the Bandon, Skibbereen, and Dunmanway unions’.] 21 Jun 1850 Resolution objecting to accounts submitted for payment by Skibbereen Board of Guardians, noting that rates for the divisions formerly in Skibbereen Union have not been transferred to Clonakilty Union as ordered by the PLC. 28 Jun 1850 Resolutions regarding a hospital at Rosscarbery [‘in a ruinous state’ by 10 Jan 1851] , and plans for the new workhouse (one referring to the use of Courtmacsherry slate).
23 Aug 1850 Resolution passed setting rates for each electoral division for the
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