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Ledger containing the following accounts:
(1)'Sums received from persons in receipt of relief by way of loan', listing date, from whom received, number of days of loan, the electoral division which will receive amount and the amount given;
(2)'Sums received on account of articles sold', listing date, from whom account is to be credited, e..g Patrick Daly sold old rags and shoes, and the money is to be credited to the clothing a/c; and
(3) 'Sums received for relief administered by way of loan and for constabulary patients', listing date, from whom received, and to whom relief is to be administered (listed by occupation rather than name).
Also includes miscellaneous correspondence pasted into the endpapers of the volume.

Volume containing pre-printed questionnaire for manual answers to be entered at each inspection of the Visiting Committee to the Birr workhouse. The questionnaire comprises 16 questions on the condition of both the workhouse premises and the residents of the institution. The Visiting Committee answers either Yes or No to each question and there is space for observations, comments and sign-off by the clerk of the union and the chairperson of the board of guardians. Inspections begin as monthly occurrences in 1896 but are sporadic in frequency by 1920. Following the closure of the Birr workhouse in August 1921, during the 'Amalgamation' of the workhouses in the county, the newly constituted Board of Health opened the County Home in Tullamore workhouse. In 1938, a new visiting committee was formed and Mary K. Dunne, a member of the Visiting Committee in the 1920s, and her colleague, A. F. E. McMichael, seem to have repurposed this volume to record the inspection visits to the county home (in Tullamore). Rather than answer the pre-printed questionnaire template, written reports have been attached to the page, or the observations space is used to write a report, and it is stamped and signed by the Board of Health. The use of this re-purposed volume by the Board of Health lasted until December 1939.

Includes some loose correspondence from the Local Government Board (1905; 1911)

Workhouse Registers -
3 Registers of persons admitted and discharged from the workhouse of Parsonstown Union -
BG164/7/1: 1842 - 1843 (part only, cover missing, 12pp index), 55pp.
BG164/7/2: 1849 - 1850 (bound volume, 27 pp index, missing pp 1, 14-17, 148-149), 144pp.
BG164/7/3: 1912, loose pages.