Bantry Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/43
Arrangement The collection consists of series of minutes, including a large series of minutes of meetings of the board of guardians, four volumes of ‘rough’ minutes, and two volumes of minutes of proceedings as a rural sanita ry authority under the Labourers’ Acts . 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). Please note that gaps occur.
Headings
1. Minute Books
A2- 120 AA1-4 AL3, 5
Board of Guardian Minute Books
1846-1924 (107 items) 1846-51; 1868-69 (4 items)
Board of Guardians Rough Minute Books
Labourers’ Acts Minute Books
1889-1893 (2 items)
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/59 Castletown; BG/83 Dunmanway; BG/65 Clonakilty; BG/115 Macroom; BG/145 Schull) Cork County Boards of Health and Public Assistance records, 1921-66
Bantry Rural District Council records, 1899-1925 Bantry Town Commissioners/Town Council records 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 May 2011
© Cork City and County Archives 2011
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