Bantry Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/43
shall not be opened presently in any circumstances. The workhouse as such shall be abolished as at this date’.
8 Feb 1922 Committee appointed to look into matters raised in a letter from the Local Government Department inspector, including the number of unmarried mothers, ‘the advisability of boarding out all or a s many as possible of the inmates especially the children’, and the allowances for ‘the different classes of inmates boarded out’. [See also 21 Mar 1923 below.] 22 Feb 1922 School inspector’s report noting the pupils’ intelligence and their ‘very satisfactory elementary knowledge of the Irish language’ ; considered by the board to be ‘satisfactory’. 12 Apr 1922 40 inmates in the hospital, 100 persons given out door relief. The clerk notes that the house is ‘overcrowded’ [there being accommodation for 40 in the hospital, the only building in use].
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26 Apr 1922 – 19 Sep 1923
Includes:
26 Apr 1922 Total inmates in the hospital: 39. Out door relief: 100 persons.
10 May 1922 Clerk’s report stating ‘that the burial ground attached to the workhouse (now us ed as a barracks) requires immediate attention’. Letter from Cors Deane, Gate Lodge, Bantry House, requesting remuneration for the extra duties falling on him ‘since the guardians got over portion of the house for an hospital’. 25 Jul 1922 Boarding Out Committee report recommending that 10 inmates be sent to the Home at Clonakilty ‘for the reception of the aged and infirm, chronic sick, the debilitated and sane epileptics of the unions of Bandon, Bantry, Castletown Berehaven, Dunmanway, Kinsale, Macroom, Schull, and Skibbereen’. It is also recommended that 13 inmates unfit to be moved be retained in the hospital, and four inmates and seven children be sent out, with boarding out allowances where considered necessary. One child is to be sent to an orphanage, with another to follow when well enough. [See also, e.g., 7 Feb, 16 May and 25 Jul 1923, and 2 Apr 1924 below.] 16 Aug 1922 Clerk’s report stating ‘that the workhouse premises were burned on Friday night last’, and that he employed men to remove ‘useful stuff’ to Bantry House. [See 2 May 1923] 22 Nov 1922 Medical officer’s report expressing his ‘desire to accommo date in every way possible the N ational Forces wounded and sick in the hospital’, but repeating his protest against the continued attendance of Dr Cullinan.
26 Feb 1923 Special meeting held to hear proposals from the Neutral IRA Members’ Association calling for a truce. Proposals endorsed by the board.
7 Mar 1923 Letters, one from a solicitor representing a supplier pursuing legal action against the board for non-payment, the other from a building
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