Macroom Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/115
reporting that she is paying for another child from her small wages, but has named a large farmer as the father of her illegitimate child. Relieving officer’s report regarding a mother of two children whose husband was shot, and whose only income if 6s per week from the White Cross Fund. [Outdoor relief granted, and to a family with six children under 15 living in a labourers’ cottage on half an acre . Outdoor relief a recurring matter]. Resolution regarding admission and maintenance of persons from Macroom union in Cork union workhouse. 8 Jul 1922 Letter from secretary, Cork County Council, regarding arrangements for transferring old, infirm, chronic sick, and debilitated persons and sane epileptics from the west Cork unions, including Macroom, to the new home in Clonakilty. 15 Jul 1922 Special meeting held to consider a resolution of Cork Harbour Commissioners regarding the Civil War. Resolution passed calling on ‘Army Leaders of both sides and Dail Eireann to arrange for an immediate armistice ’ . Amendment calling for disbandment of the National Army defeated.
30 Sep 1922 Clerk reports that National Troops took possession of the workhouse, including the board and RDC buildings, on 18 Aug.
11 Nov 1922 Solicitor’s letter regarding superannuation of the late porter and female searcher, the amoun t of which has been ‘illegally’ reduced by LG Dept.
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13 Jan 1923 – 26 Apr 1924
State of the Workhouse and Outdoor Relief Returns not completed in this volume. Minutes February to May 1923 inserted as loose typescript pages into the volume. Includes: 9 Jun 1923 Clerk’s reports, referring to several requisitionings of the ambulance by the Red Cross Corps, and to a 10 month old boy sent to Cork District Hospital (his father having been ‘taken out of his own house in Co Waterford and shot’, and his mothe r having gone to Scotland). 14 Jul 1923 Relieving officer submits eviction notices at the suit of Timothy Lucey, Main St, Macroom, ‘Shopkeeper & Farmer’. Letter from Medical Officer, Macroom, regarding ‘grave objections to the further use of the Town Hall premises as a dispensary’. [See also 8 Dec] Resolution protesting at the LG Dept’s delay in sanctioning the appointment of Denis F MacCarthy as medical officer of Cannaway district, noting ‘the voting was obviously not along political lines’.
11 Aug 1923 Resolution, following hearing of ‘a deputation of bodies’, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners.
8 Sep 1923 Order in response to an LG Dept letter regarding an application for out door relief, noting ‘owing to the Wo rkhouse having been burned this man and his family cannot be relieved therein’.
13 Oct 1923 Relieving officer reports a case of a child left on a doorstep.
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