Macroom Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/115
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/115/A
Macroom Board of Guardians Minute Books
Scope and Content: A record of meetings and decisions made by the board of guardians in administering the workhouse and poor relief generally. At meetings, officers’ reports and committee findings were heard, correspondence read and considered, and applications decided on. Matters arising with regard to the workhouse, staff, provisions, bills, finance, the Poor Law, the Poor Law Commissioners, the Local Government Board and the Local Government Department, and other issues, were also discussed. The minutes also include weekly statistics of admissions, discharges, and deaths in the workhouse, and of outdoor relief.
Date : 10 May 1884 – 26 Apr 1924
Level : Series
Extent : 22 volumes
1.
10 May 1884 – 14 Mar 1885
Some pages from the meeting preceding 10 May 1884 are present. Minutes of ordinary proceedings are followed by supplemental sheets for proceedings under the Medical Charities Act and proceedings of the board of guardians as a rural sanitary authority. Ordinary minutes often continue into the Medical Charities sheet. Includes: 24 May 1884 Total inmates: 297. Out door relief: 354 persons. LGB order dated 12 May 1884 setting aside the return of the election of Edward Neville as guardian for Mashanaglass ED as, on in quiry, he ‘did not obtain a majority of good and lawful votes’. The office is declared vacant. LGB letter referring to their inspector’s report, which finds workhouse management satisfactory, but notes painting required, the long time since stocktaking was done, and the deficiency of industrial training for children. Letter from Mr Parnell MP regarding the land purchase company ‘unanimously approved of’ [contents not given]. Resolution expressing regret ‘that an attempt has been made to organise an oppositi on to the proposed Cork & Muskerry Light Railway’. LGB letter forwarding a sealed copy of the provisional order under the Labourers’ Act. 21 Jun 1884 Resolution passed resolving to proceed with alterations to the workhouse chapel, despite advice questioning its financial expediency. Resolved, to take no action regarding a letter making claims relating to the management of the workhouse, as ‘it appears John Murphy is a fictitious
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