Bandon workhouse Board of Guardians (BG42)

Bandon Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/42

4. Workhouse: Inmates

BG/42/G/1

Bandon Union Indoor Relief Register

Scope and Content: Volume recording and registering the admission, residence, and discharge of inmates to the workhouse. Noted are register number, name, sex, age, religious denomination, occupation, address, observations, and date of discharge or death. The volume is indexed. A note on the flyleaf reads: ‘Several registers written previously to this one were burned in the workhouse fire on the morning of June 23 rd 1921. Other registers of the “Forties , Fifties and Sixties” escaped as they happened to be stowed away down in the lobby outside the boardroom at the lodge. T Forde, Master, 1 Oct 1924’. The earlier volumes referred to were not transferred to Archives and have not been located.

Date : 14 Mar 1920 – 31 Mar 1925

Level : Item

Extent : 1 volume

5. Labourers’ Acts

BG/42/SA/1

Labourers’ Acts Ledger

Scope and Content: Ledger consisting of sheets recording details of acquisition of sites, erection of labourers’ cottages, and lettings to tenants under the Labourers’ Acts. At the top of each sheet is noted from whom the site was acquired and in what townland, the scheme number, the date of provisional order, the site as given in the provisional order, number of Ordnance Sheet, and the area of the site. There follow tables recording particulars of the award and payment of compensation to owner and occupier of site, contract for erection of cottage and payments, contract for fencing of plot and payments, miscellaneous expenditure, and particulars of letting of cottage (names of tenants).

Date : 27 Nov 1886 – 24 Jan 1896

Level : Item

Extent : 1 volume

Cork City and County Archives 2011

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