Macroom workhouse Board of Guardians (BG115)

Macroom Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/115

Arrangement The collection consists of an incomplete series of minutes of meetings of the board of guardians, some 20 th century board correspondence, financial records, an early dispensary statistical record, one indoor relief register, a matron’s requisition book, and two volum es relating to the boarding out of children. The arrangement of Board of Guardian records 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).

Headings

1. Minute Books

A1- 122

Board of Guardian Minute Books

1884-1924 (22 items)

2. Correspondence

BA1-3

Inward Letterbooks (LGB/LG Dept)

1901, 1918, 1922 (3 items)

3. Accounts

CA1-10

General Ledgers

1899 – 1924 (8 items) 1905 – 1913 (1 item)

CD1 CL1

Financial Statement Book – Receipts

Bank Pass Book

1920 (1 item)

4. Statistics (Dispensary)

DF1

Medical Officer’s Monthly Return Book,

1852 – 1854 (1 item)

Inchigeela Dispensary

5. Workhouse: Inmates

G1

Indoor Relief Register

1916 – 1921 (1 item)

6. Workhouse: Infirmary

HH1

Matron’s Requisition Book

1894 – 1921 (1 item)

7. Boarded Out Children

IC1 ID1

Boarded Out Children Contract Book

1901 – 1922 (1 item) 1902 – 1920 (1 item)

List of Boarded Out Children

Conditions of Access & Use

Access : Open by appointment to those holding a current reader ’ s ticket.

Language: English

Finding Aids: Summary descriptive list.

Cork City and County Archives 2011

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