Bandon Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/42
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/42/A
Bandon 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.
Date : 4 Mar 1839 – 195 Apr 1924
Level : Series
Extent : 108 volumes
1.
4 Mar 1839 – 27 Nov 1844 The volume is indexed (index and some of the minutes very feint). Includes:
4 Mar 1839 First meeting of guardians, Lord Bernard elected chairman and bye-laws adopted.
11 May 1839 Report of the Valuation Committee, referring to the deficiencies of the earlier Grand Jury and Tithe Composition valuations, and recommending that a new valuation be conducted under the Poor Law Act ‘upon a scale as minute as the portion into which each townland is subdivided, even to the smallest occupation’. 25 May 1839 Report of committee to inspect sites for the workhouse, recommending a site near Boyle street owned by the earl of Shannon and presently let (‘if the earl of Shannon will be as liberal as on other occasions’), having assessed the merits and defects of five other sites (including two offered by the Duke of Devonshire and one on Gallows Hill). The report is sent to the PLC with ‘the most urgent request’ for an early decision ‘with a view to give employment to the tradesmen and labourers of the vicinity during a very distressing sum mer which they have a great reason to fear’. 17 Jul 1839 Report of committee to examine valuation made by Messrs Sealy, Gash and Crawford of the townland of Brinny, expressing satisfaction with their work and recommending their appointment, with perhaps one other valuator, for the valuation of the whole union.
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