Kanturk Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/98
Identity Statement
Reference Code:
IE CCCA/BG/98
Title:
Kanturk Board of Guardians
Dates:
1858 – 1924
Level of description:
Fonds
Extent:
31 items
Context
Creator(s): Kanturk Board of Guardians
Archival History The records of the Kanturk Board of Guardians were deposited in the Archives in the early 1980s. One Rural Sanitary minute book (BG/98/AL/5) and some fragments, parts of BG/98/A/4, were later acquired as part of a large accession from County Council Offices, Annabella, Mallow, in 2007. Administrative & Biographical History The Kanturk Board of Guardians was the governing body of Kanturk workhouse and poor law union. Kanturk Poor Law Union was established under the Poor Law (Ireland) Act, 1838. It was one of 16 unions in the overall County Cork area. Each union was centred on a city or market town and its hinterland, and this union area sometimes ignored existing parish or county boundaries. In this central town was situated the union workhouse (usually built between 1838 and 1852) which provided relief for the unemployed and the destitute. Kanturk board of guardians first met on 27 February 1840. Kanturk Workhouse opened on 18 July 1844. The earliest minutes to have survived are from 1858. The area of the union included the dispensary districts of Newmarket, Kanturk, Milford, and Boherbue . In April 1878 the Poor Law Union Inquiry Commissioners held a meeting to hear evidence on the proposed dissolution of Millstreet union, and its amalgamation into those of Macroom, Killarney, and Kanturk. Each workhouse was managed by a staff and officers under the charge of a workhouse master, who reported to the board. Overall responsibility rested with the union's board of guardians, some of whom were elected, and some of whom were ex-officio members appointed usually from amongst local magistrates. The board appointed its own inhouse committees, and received reports from workhouse officers and from dispensary district committees and district medical
Cork City and County Archives 2011
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