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Dunshaughlin Poor Law Union - 27.06.1846 - Discipline Measures
Dunshaughlin Poor Law Union - 27.06.1846 - Discipline Measures
The Guardians responded somewhat harshly to two discipline issues reported by the Master in June 1846.One father was to be apprehended for deserting his children in the workhouse. A warrant was to be put out for a mother who did not return from burying her child. Possibly she was wearing clothes owned by the Guardians and was liable to a charge of theft is she did not return.
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Dail Eireanns response to the proposed meeting to amalgamate the County Donegal Boards of Guardians
Dail Eireanns response to the proposed meeting to amalgamate the County Donegal Boards of Guardians
Letter from Dail Eireann stating that the proposed resolution to be discussed at a meeting in Lifford regarding the amalgamation of the workhouses might be regarded as a step in the right direction.
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Layout of the Workhouse
Layout of the Workhouse
Standard layout for a workhouse, as published in the Poor Law Commissioners Annual Report, 1839. The standard layout was drawn up by the Poor Law Commissions Architect, George Wilkinson.
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Tenement in Leitrim
Tenement in Leitrim
The valuations carried out to find the poor rate to finance the poor law in 1838 was an unfair system that did not take into account the state or value of the actual land and holding of the tenements. This particular illustration of a cottage is a good example of the kind of tenement that the poorer classes in Ireland lived in. Taken from Hall’s book, Ireland, Its Scenic Characteristic, the cottage could be found in Leitrim in the 1840’s. The author describes the house as a ‘cabin by no means of the worst class’. Its walls are made of sod or mud, its roof is thatched and in disrepair with a basket for a chimney. It has no window, its only light getting into the cabin through the badly fitted door. Outside the door, as was the custom, there was a hole in the ground for slops and manure. Indeed all the land that could possibly be used for tillage was planted with the potato crop including the fertilised land in front of the doorway. This tenement cabin would have held up to 6 people and a pig or a cow under the same roof, with one bed for the eldest, usually a grandparent. All the other occupants would have sat and slept on the floor. The later Griffith valuations were much more accurately calculated whereby all property in Ireland had a value placed on it, and only those that exceeded four pounds were liable to pay the poor rate taxes.
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Dunshaughlin Poor Law Union - 02.01.1847 - Annual Medical Report
Dunshaughlin Poor Law Union - 02.01.1847 - Annual Medical Report
The doctor reports a high number of ill patients in December 1846, 62 in all, including several children with measles. He states that the tropical heat of the Summer of 1846 led to a remarkable increase in cases of dysentery, many of which were fatal to those already infirm.
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Indoor Relief Register (1a)
Indoor Relief Register (1a)
Extract from the register of persons admitted to and discharged from Milford Workhouse. Includes details such as name, sex, age, marital status, birth status, employment, religion and illness.
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Dispensary District Committees of Management
Dispensary District Committees of Management
Extract from the minutes of Milford Board of Guardians where committees of management for each dispensary district were appointed.
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Minute relating to Assisting Emmigration (B)
Minute relating to Assisting Emmigration (B)
Minute of Milford Board of Guardians requesting that the commissioners sanction the payment of £3 to provide and outfit and pay a portion of the passage to Philadelphia of a child named Catherine Murray, the other part having been paid by the parents who reside there.
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Indoor Relief Register (2a)
Indoor Relief Register (2a)
Extract from the register of persons admitted to and discharged from Milford Workhouse. Includes details such as name, sex, age, marital status, birth status, employment, religion and illness.
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Birds Eye View of the Standard Workhouse Image
Birds Eye View of the Standard Workhouse Image
Birds Eye View of the standard layout for a workhouse, as published in the Poor Law Commissioners Annual Report, 1839. The standard plan was drawn up by the Poor Law Commissions Architect, George Wilkinson.