Records of Offaly Farming and Industrial Society
- IE OH OHS5
- Fonds
- 1902-1950
Ledgers and minute book of Offaly Farming and Industrial Society, organisers of the Tullamore Agricultural and Industrial Show.
Offaly Farming and Industrial Society
Records of Offaly Farming and Industrial Society
Ledgers and minute book of Offaly Farming and Industrial Society, organisers of the Tullamore Agricultural and Industrial Show.
Offaly Farming and Industrial Society
Christmas card featuring the Evie Hone Nativity window
Christmas card from Aer Lingus, featuring the Evie Home Nativity window at the Jesuit College, Tullamore, Ireland.
Indoor Assistance Lists (1924-1948)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording details for 'Form 33', Indoor Assistance Lists. Columns and sub-columns record the following data:
Adults: Married Couples (Males/Females); Other Males, Other Females
Children under 15: Of Parents Being Inmates (Legitimate/Illegitimate); Orphans or other children relieved without their parents
Lunatics, Insane Persons and Idiots: Males, Females, Children under 15
No in register
Name of Inmate
Age
Number of days in house each month (for 6 months)
Total (for half-year)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording details of residents admitted to the county home, the first of which dating from 1914, predates the establishment of the county home in 1921 and can therefore also be viewed as the last workhouse register for Tullamore Workhouse.
Data collected in this unbroken run of registers (Form 29) varied slightly from volume to volume but generally contained the following:
Admission number (and previous admission number if any)
Date of admission or birth
Name of inmate
Age, Sex
Description (Married, Single, etc.) or 'If adult whether single, married, widow or widower; if child, whether orphan, deserted, illegitimate or legitimate'
Religious denomination
Residence prior to admission
Name and address of nearest relative and description of relationship
Observations on condition of inmates when registered.
Employment or Calling
Number of dependents
Disease or other cause rendering admission necessary
Who gave recommendation for admission
Date of discharge or death
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Registers, slightly overlapping between the years 1932 and 1943, of deaths recorded as having taken place in the workhouse (1913-1921), the county home (1922-1947), and the hospitals (1932-1943) under the care of firstly Tullamore Poor Law Union and immediately succeeded by Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance.
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Minutes of the proceedings of the Offaly Board of Health acting as the Sanitary Authority, recording executive decisions on matters of public health such as installation of sewerage schemes; installation of water pumps; condition of housing; registration of dairymen; reports of infectious diseases such as diphtheria, tuberculosis etc; vaccination defaulters; and other matters formerly overseen by rural district councils. Also includes reports from the medical officers of health in each district.
Admission and Discharge Books (1932-42)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording admissions and discharges to the county hospital. Details recorded include:
Name of patient
Residence
Occupation
Disease
Remarks
Age
Recommended by
Date of admission/discharge
Insurance details.
Volumes often enclose loose correspondence and reports on individual patients' treatment at external hospitals.
Part of Records of the Williams Group
Volumes relating to the production and sale of pot-still whiskey.
Tullamore Distillery