Fermoy workhouse Board of Guardians (BG89)

Fermoy Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/89

6 May 1899 No meeting held ‘pursuant to resolution, fixing once a fortnight for the future meetings of the board’.

13 May 1899 Resolutions from other unions adopted regarding ‘the inalienable right of the Irish people to have the management of their own affairs’ and the compulsory sale ‘of lands to occupiers and tillers of the soil on fair and equitable terms ’. The meeting also passed two other resolutions on the land question. Report of committee appointed to confer with the dispensary medical officers ‘as to fees for attendance on persons unable to pay the usual fees’.

21.-24.

Missing

25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

30 Dec 1905 – 29 Dec 1906 12 Jan 1907 – 11 Jan 1908 25 Jan 1908 – 6 Feb 1909 20 Feb 1909 – 19 Feb 1910 5 Mar 1910 – 18 Feb 1911 4 Mar 1911 – 2 Mar 1912

31.-34.

Missing

35.

1 Apr 1916 – 24 Mar 1917

Includes:

14 Oct 1916 Sealed Order declaring ‘as from 1 st November 1916, the dissolution of the Mitchelstown Union and thenceforth shall form part of the Fermoy Union’. 25 Nov 1916 LG Dept letter regarding arrangements arising out of the recent amalgamation of Mitchelstown Union. Reference is made to the closing of accounts, the transfer of stock, and taking possession of the workhouse. It is added that ‘no special instructions are required for bringing into operation the details of the amalgamation’, as Mitchelstown guardians become guardians of the new Fermoy union on the date of the amalgamation.

36. 37. 38.

Missing

11 May 1918 – 10 May 1919 24 May 1919 – 29 May 1920

Includes:

26 July 1919 LG Dept letter allowing the payment of a bonus of £10 to three nuns in the infirmary ‘in respect of services during the Influenza epidemics’. They decline to sanction the same payment to fever hospital nurses. [War bonuses and ration allowances are recurring themes in this volume]. 15 May 1920 Requested, that the LGB fix the date for the annual meeting, the clerk informing them of the dates of the annual meetings ‘of the several Rural District Councils in the Union’: Fermoy, Mitchelstown No I, Mitchelstown No II. It is also asked whether Mitchelstown councillors must sign

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