Kinsale workhouse Board of Guardians (BG108)

Kinsale Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/108

1.

28 Jan 1886 – 21 Mar 1888

Includes:

(inside back cover) Letters enclosed among the minutes, 11 Feb 1886 – 13 Jul 1887, including from LGB, engineers’ tenders, and some copy resolutions and rough notes, all relating to labourers’ cottages. [16 items] 28 Jan 1886 Printed enclosure, memorandum of instructions as to applications to the Local Government Board for Ireland for provisional orders under these [Labourers] acts. 11 Feb 1886 Agreed, ‘that each dispensary committee with the addition of the PP [parish priest] of each district be a committee for the purpose of selecting sites for labourers’ cottages in conjunction with the engineer’. 20 May 1886 Resolved, to rescind a previous resolution fixing the area of charge for cottages on electoral divisions, and that union rating be adopted instead. [divisional versus union rating a much debated issue]

23 Sep 1886 Enclosure, LGB letter regarding confirmation of 18 improvement schemes under the Labourers’ Acts.

9 Dec 1886 LGB letter read stating that Col Spaight, LGB inspector, will hold a local inquiry into the propriety and deficiencies of the scheme, and local objections, on 21 Dec. 10 Feb 1887 LGB letter read forwarding copy of special report [not present] ‘relating to the houses proved to be unfit for hum an habitation at the local inquiry’. The report recommends erection of 42 of the 102 cottages in the scheme.

18 Aug 1887 LGB letter read regarding the board’s loan application for executing improvement schemes under the Kinsale Union Labourers Order 1887.

2.

28 Mar 1888 – 6 Oct 1898

No minutes present from Feb-Nov 1891; Apr-May 1892; Jul 1892 - Sep 1896; Nov 1896 – Aug 1897

Includes:

(inside back cover) Letters from Robert Gregg (lawyer) regarding conveyance of lands to the union, 19 Jan – 8 Dec 1891 [5 items]

4 Apr 1888 Resolved, that cottages at Knocknabinny, Lisaxon, and Wilton Hill be let to Timothy McCarthy, Michael Daly, and Laurence Spillane, respectively, at one shilling per week, and that the land attached to a cottage at Ballymackean

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