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Leinster Regiment souvenir publications
Book of photographic prints of 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment Royal Canadians, Jullundur & Amritsar (India) 1911, with annotations on biographical details of subjects.
Booklet commemorating Presentation of Decorations and Medals to the 2nd Battalion The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), at Colchester, February 1920.
Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
Information from a painting of John Warneford Armstrong
Part of Woodfield Papers
Envelope of information once attached to a portrait of John Warneford Armstrong of Ballycumber House, sent by his great-grandson, S.A. Walpole, to Reverend Canon Adam Lamb.
Lamb, Francis Adam Johnston, Reverend
Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
This is a large set of records which broadly reflects the evolution of local authority health and welfare provision in Offaly. It contains minutes of committees established to oversee public health and public assistance, as well as administrative records detailing the admission and discharge of individuals into the County Home or the County Hospital. While the bulk of the records derived from the County Board of Health, there are a few outlying records from 1912-21 relating to transitional periods in the health service, or where registers were taken over from the preceding health system and incorporated into the new Board of Health. Likewise some county home and county hospital administrative records, particularly admission and discharge registers and financial ledgers which were kept by record-creators in an unbroken series, post-date the County Board of Health's executive function which ceased in 1942.
RECORDS RELATING TO MOTHER AND BABY HOMES AND BOARDED-OUT CHILDREN:
The main series of records which record unmarried mothers and/or decisions relating to the boarding-out of children are to be found in the Public Assistance Minute Books (Series 3) and the Admissions and Discharge registers for the County Home (Series 5).
While Offaly did not have a designated ‘Mother and Baby Home,’ the records show that unmarried mothers were regularly admitted to the County Home to give birth until the late 1940s, many staying for a significant period of time in the home with their children. In some instances, both mother and child were transferred from the home after the birth to other institutions such as Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, or Manor Home, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath.
From the late 1940s, it appears that unmarried mothers were either admitted directly to institutions in other counties (these records are held by other bodies) or transferred from the County Home to mother and baby homes outside Offaly before or after giving birth (these instances, which are infrequent from the late 1940s are recorded in the county home registers in this collection). Children entered in the registers of the county home are recorded as having been born there, or have been transferred into the county home from another institution before being 'placed' or 'boarded-out' in Offaly. It is possible to trace children by surname, noting the limitations of the records in terms of completeness and the date span.
In general terms and from an overview of the records, the incidence of names of unmarried mothers and their children decreases significantly over time. This is most likely due to unmarried mothers from Offaly entering institutions outside the county before the birth of their children. By the 1950s, there are only sporadic instances of births to unmarried mothers and of 'boarded-out' children recorded in the county home registers. This particular record series ends in 1957.
Offaly County Council
Only 10 minute books survive as records of Edenderry Union covering the years 1879-1919, with many large gaps. There are no extant workhouse registers, registers of deaths, workhouse ledgers, outdoor relief registers, or registers of accounts.
A further known minute book from 1895, which was rescued from the workhouse following its demolition in 1976 and is now in private hands, has been transcribed by Dr Ciaran Reilly in an article ‘The minute book of Edenderry Poor Law Union, 1895’ in Offaly Heritage, Vol. 7 (Tullamore, 2013)
The minutes contain the proceedings of the meetings of the boards of guardians and contain reports from the clerk of the union, the master of the workhouse, the sanitary officers and others.
Edenderry Union
Photograph of Irish Volunteers, Tullamore, 1914
Part of O'Brennan Family Papers
Black and white photograph of Irish Volunteers marching in Market Square, Tullamore in 1916. Tullamore Pipers Band visible to right of volunteer formation.
Sanitary Officer's Report Book
Register of reports of sanitary officers in Sub-Officer's District of Edenderry No.1. Date recorded include the date of the report, the name of the sanitary officer and the name of the District; the name and address of the owner/occupier; the nature or cause of complaint; the sanitary officer's recommendation; the order of the sanitary board; a description of steps taken to remove cause of complaint and a description of the result of the order.
Reports cover public health disease controls on infectious diseases such as diptheria, scarletina and typhoid; sanitation of public water supply; sanitary state of school buildings; and other threats to public health.
Records of Edenderry Rural District Council
Incomplete records of Edenderry No 1 Rural District Council, notably missing minute books. The first series comprises sanitary officers' records in the form of a report register and a diary of works completed. Both of these registers continued to be used beyond the life of the rural district council, which was abolished in 1925, and its functions subsumed into the Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance.
The second series comprises abstracts of accounts prepared in final years of Edenderry RDC in 1924 and 1925.
Edenderry Rural District Council
Twenty-seven lists of jurors prepared by the clerk of Tullamore Poor Law Union, James McKenna, using data from the rate-books as collected by the poor rate collectors throughout the union. The broadsheets list the identified jurors alphabetically, with their address, occupation, the extent of rateable property and the location of the property. Exemptions are noted as per legislation, on the basis of age, property ownership, ill-health, disability, and profession. Printed by R. Willis, stationer, Tullamore.
McKenna, James
Documents relating to aspects of Moore's life in Banagher. Moore was involved in many committees in the town. These fall into two categories in this collection, namely improvements to the local economy and infrastructure and those that responded to outside events such as the First and Second World Wars. The improvement committees were Banagher Improvement Association/Committee (c.1899-1928), Banagher Fairs and Improvement Committee (1907-1928), Banagher Public Lighting Committee (1907-1912) and Banagher and Lusmagh Farmers Association (1929-1930). The other committees responded to WWI and WWII were The Garrycastle Relief Committee (1914-1915), the War and Pensions Committee (1917-1919) and the Parish Council (1941-c.1945).
Some other organisations mentioned are the Banagher Bicycle Association, the Gaelic League and the Banagher Sacred Heart Sodality which all proved extremely popular.
Moore, Roderick Harold
Board of Guardians Minute Books
Part of Records of Tullamore Union
The minutes contain the proceedings of the meetings of the Board of Guardians and contain reports from the clerk of the union, the master of the workhouse, the sanitary officers and others.