Mallow Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/116
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/116/A
Mallow Board of Guardian 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, administrative, financial, rates, and medical books were examined, officers’ reports and committee findings heard, correspondence read and considered, and applications for admission decided on. Matters arising with regard to the workhouse, staff, provisions, bills, rate collection, the Poor Law Commissioners/Local Government Board, and other issues, were also discussed. The minutes also include weekly statistics of admissions, discharges, and deaths in the workhouse, and of outdoor relief. Gaps are indicated where they occur.
Date : 19 Apr 1839 – 26 Oct 1917 (Gaps)
Level : Series
Extent : 44 volumes
1.
19 Apr 1839 – 10 Feb 1843
The volume is indexed. [*binding required]
Includes:
19 Apr 1839 First meeting, William J Voules, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, in attendance, bye laws passed.
15 July 1839 Special meeting held to ascertain the majority view as to the eligibility of Mallow or Buttevant for the union workhouse. A PLC letter read states ‘on the whole whil st admitting the importance of Mallow, the commissioners are satisfied of the superior eligibility of Buttevant’. Motion carried in favour of Mallow by 16 votes to 15. 29 Jul 1839 Poor Law Commissioners letter, acknowledging the board’s view that Mallow is preferable to Buttevant for the site of the workhouse. They ask that the guardians agree in writing to the severing of the northern parishes of Charleville, Kilbolane, and Shandrum from the union area, as being too distant from a Mallow workhouse. [Debated in subsequent minutes. Severed parishes added to Kilmallock Union; see 2 Dec 1841]
16 Nov 1840 Resolved, that the following places be vaccination stations:
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