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Records of Tullamore Union Housing
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Labourers (Ireland) Acts Minute Book

Minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Guardians acting as the Rural Sanitary Authority, under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, mainly recording decisions taken in respect of collecting rents from labourers' cottages; the sinking of wells; and the erection of new cottages. Includes copy correspondence from the Local Government Board, as well as details of tenders and contracts awarded for new cottages or repairs/improvements to existing cottages.

Report of the Engineering Inspector on housing

Cover letter enclosing inspection reports by Louis E. H. Deane, Engineering Inspector, on 23 houses unfit for human habitation in the Tullamore Union district, as per the Labourer (Ireland) Acts Scheme No. III. The reports record the name of the electoral division, the townland, the name of the occupier, and a detailed description of the reason the house is unfit for human habitation.