Kinsale workhouse Board of Guardians (BG108)

A record of death book, 1842-99, supplements other registers of inmates (BG/108/KA). Finally, a few forms relating to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1904, are also present (BG/108/M).

The collection is of use to those studying the administrative and social history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to students of local and family history. The development of the poor law system, and the local experience of the Great Famine of 1845-49, are subjects of particular interest.

Arrangement The collection is arranged into 21 separate series, under 10 different headings (see table of contents). This arrangement 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 in many series.

Headings

1. Minute Books

A1-138

Board of Guardian Minute Books

1839-1924 (87 items) 1861-1892 (43 items) 1886-1898 (2 items)

AA18-74

Board of Guardian Rough Minute Books

AL1-2

Minutes, Rural Sanitary Authority

2. Correspondence

B1-3 BB1

Outgoing Letter Books

1899-1920 (3 items) 1839-1841 (1 item)

Inward and Outward Letter Book

3. Accounts

CA1-26 CB1-2 CE1-4

General Ledgers Personal Ledgers

1839-1925 (17 items) 1853-1899 (2 items) 1912-1924 (4 items) 1845-1909 (2 items) 1905-1920 (1 item)

Financial Statements Expenditure Treasurers Receipt and Payment Books Treasurers Loan Repayment Accounts

CF1-2

CG1

4. Statistics

DF1

Medical Officers Returns

1915-1921 (1 item)

5. Workhouse: Administration

F1

Master’s Journal

1902-1908 (1 item) 1881-1887 (1 item) 1899-1924 (1 item)

FA1 FT1

Master’s Report Book

Work House Farm Accounts Book

Cork City and County Archives 2011

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