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Records of Parsonstown Union

  • IE OCL BG164
  • Fonds
  • 1839 - 1931

97 Minute Books

55 Rough Minute Books

1 Repayment of Relief Book

1 Rent Book

1 Document relating to the King's County Directory

1 Lease

3 Workhouse Registers

2 Financial Minute Books

1 Dispensary District Ledger

Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union

Report Book of the Visiting Committee

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)

Records of Birr Rural District Council

  • IE OCL BRDC10
  • Fonds
  • 1880 - 1925

Birr (Parsonstown) Rural District Council No. 1 -
9 Minute books -
BRDC10/1/1: April 1899 - July 1900
BRDC10/1/2: August 1900 - June 1903
BRDC10/1/3: June 1903 - December 1905
BRDC10/1/4: January 1906 - December 1908
BRDC10/1/5: January 1909 - December 1910
BRDC10/1/6: January 1911 - March 1914
BRDC10/1/7: July 1914 - July 1915
BRDC10/1/8: August 1915 - May 1920
BRDC10/1/9: June 1920 - September 1923

4 Financial Minute Books -
BRDC10/2/1: September 1907 - February 1910
BRDC10/2/2: July 1910 - January 1912
BRDC10/2/3: February 1913 - April 1913 and November 1914 - April 1915 (1 volume).
BRDC10/2/4: April 1914 - October 1914 and July 1918 (1 volume).

1 Register -
BRDC10/3: July 1908 - March 1918, Register of cow keepers, dairy men or purveyors of milk within this district.

1 Declaration -
BRDC10/4: June 1914 - May 1923, Councillors declaration of acceptance of office.

1 General Rental -
BRDC10/5/1: 1915 - 1919, Labourers' cottages general rental.

1 Ledger -
BRDC10/5/2: October 1915 - March 1925, Labourers' cottage repair ledger.

Birr (Parsonstown) Rural District Council No. 2 -
5 Minute Books -
BRDC10/6/1: January 1905 - November 1905
BRDC10/6/2: January 1906 - December 1910
BRDC10/6/3: January 1911 - June 1913
BRDC10/6/4: July 1913 - July 1915
BRDC10/6/5: September 1915 - March 1920

4 Financial Minutes -
BRDC10/7/1: April 1899 - July 1900
BRDC10/7/2: August 1900 - January 1905
BRDC10/7/3: April 1905 - July 1911
BRDC10/7/4: October 1926 - September 1928

1 Declaration -
BRDC10/8: June 1914, Councillors declaration of acceptance of office.

1 Register -
BRDC10/9: 1880 - 1971, Register of mortgages, (also Offaly Board of Health and Offaly County Council).

Parsonstown (Birr) Rural District Council

Records of Birr Urban District Council

  • IE OCL BUDC30
  • Fonds
  • 1879 - 1974

11 Minute Books -
BUDC30/1/1: June 1903 - July 1907 (with abstract, 1989).
BUDC30/1/2: August 1907 - October 1911 (with abstract, 1989).
BUDC30/1/3: November 1911 - July 1918
BUDC30/1/4: August 1918 - May 1925
BUDC30/1/5: June 1931 - July 1936
BUDC30/1/6: August 1936 - April 1942
BUDC30/1/7: June 1942 - December 1946
BUDC30/1/8: January 1947 - December 1952
BUDC30/1/9: February 1953 - December 1957
BUDC30/1/10: January 1958 - April 1962
BUDC30/1/11: May 1962 - July 1974

21 Rate Books -
BUDC30/2/1/1: 1906 - 1910
BUDC30/2/1/2: 1911 - 1914
BUDC30/2/1/3: 1917 - 1918
BUDC30/2/1/4: 1922 - 1924
BUDC30/2/1/5: 1925 - 1928
BUDC30/2/1/6: 1928 - 1931
BUDC30/2/1/7: 1932 - 1936
BUDC30/2/1/8: 1937 - 1941
BUDC30/2/1/9: 1941 - 1946
BUDC30/2/1/10: 1947 - 1948
BUDC30/2/1/11: 1951 - 1953
BUDC30/2/1/12: 1953 - 1955
BUDC30/2/1/13: 1955 - 1957
BUDC30/2/1/14: 1957 - 1958
BUDC30/2/1/15: 1959 - 1960
BUDC30/2/1/16: 1961 - 1962
BUDC30/2/1/17: 1963 - 1964
BUDC30/2/1/18: 1965 - 1966
BUDC30/2/1/19: 1966 - 1967
BUDC30/2/1/20: 1967 - 1968
BUDC30/2/1/21: 1969 - 1970

11 Financial Statement Books -
BUDC30/2/2/1: 1906 - 1913
BUDC30/2/2/2: 1913 - 1921
BUDC30/2/2/3: 1929 - 1936
BUDC30/2/2/4: 1936 - 1941
BUDC30/2/2/5: 1945 - 1948
BUDC30/2/2/6: 1948 - 1952
BUDC30/2/2/7: 1952 - 1956
BUDC30/2/2/8: 1957 - 1961
BUDC30/2/2/9: 1961 - 1965
BUDC30/2/2/10: 1965 - 1968
BUDC30/2/2/11: 1968 - 1971

19 Financial Statement - Receipt Books -
BUDC30/2/3/1: 1906 - 1911
BUDC30/2/3/2: 1911 - 1920
BUDC30/2/3/3: 1929 - 1936
BUDC30/2/3/4: 1936 - 1940
BUDC30/2/3/5: 1940 - 1943
BUDC30/2/3/6: 1943 - 1945
BUDC30/2/3/7: 1946 - 1947
BUDC30/2/3/8: 1947 - 1949
BUDC30/2/3/9: 1949 - 1951
BUDC30/2/3/10: 1951 - 1952
BUDC30/2/3/11: 1953 - 1954
BUDC30/2/3/12: 1954 - 1956
BUDC30/2/3/13: 1957 - 1959
BUDC30/2/3/14: 1960 - 1962
BUDC30/2/3/15: 1962 - 1964
BUDC30/2/3/16: 1964 - 1967
BUDC30/2/3/17: 1968 - 1969
BUDC30/2/3/18: 1969 - 1971
BUDC30/2/3/19: 1971 - 1973

3 Subsidiary Accounts -
BUDC30/2/4/1: May 1913 - November 1928
BUDC30/2/4/2: December 1928 - September 1942
BUDC30/2/4/3: October 1942 - September 1957

1 Ledger -
BUDC30/2/5/1: 1936 - 1953

1 Account Book -
BUDC30/2/6: 20 December 1879 - 3 March 1908

1 Water rates bank lodgement book -
BUDC30/2/7: 8 January 1939 - 31 May 1947, also including one account book (water meter charges), dated September 1935 - 1959

1 Toll Book -
BUDC30/2/8: 13 October 1956 - 10 June 1965 (Birr Livestock sales and take over Fair Green and tolls for Mart 1965).

1 Account Book -
BUDC30/2/9: 13 September 1879 - 1 November 1926

1 Court Order Book -
BUDC30/3: 8 June 1908 - 23 December 1917

2 Registers -
BUDC30/4/1: 24 July 1908 - 5 April 1927 (Register of cow keepers and dairymen).
BUDC30/4/2: 1937 - 1950 (Register of dairymen).

1 Register of slaughter licences -
BUDC30/5: 11 September 1937 - 31 March 1969

3 Artisans dwellings rent collection books -
BUDC30/6/1/1: 30 September 1912 - 31 March 1934
BUDC30/6/1/2: 30 September 1934 - 30 September 1939
BUDC30/6/1/3: 30 March 1940 - 30 September 1941

4 Artisans dwellings general rentals -
BUDC30/6/2/1: 31 March 1914 - 31 March 1939
BUDC30/6/2/2: 31 March 1941 - 31 March 1943
BUDC30/6/2/3: 31 March 1943 - 31 March 1955
BUDC30/6/2/4: 31 March 1966 - 31 March 1974

2 Rent collection books -
BUDC30/7/1: March 1940 - September 1952
BUDC30/7/2: April 1961 - March 1967

2 Valuation lists -
BUDC30/8/1: February 1944 - February 1957
BUDC30/8/2: 1968 - 1970

1 Interim control register -
BUDC30/9: 24 February 1946 - 2 October 1947 (indexed).

Birr Urban District Council

Minute Book (1923)

Minutes recording proceedings of meetings of the Hospital and Homes Committee containing various reports such as Superintendent's Report from the County Home; Superintendent's Report from County Hospital; and Sub-committee reports from Birr Rural District, Edenderry Rural District, Tullamore Rural District, and Roscrea No 2 Rural District on matters relating to dispensaries and hospitals in their respective areas. Also contains lists of 'Letters and Sanctions' from the Ministry of Local Government.

Issues covered by the various reports are concerned with the appointment and salaries of employees; the arrest and detention of members of the committee during the Civil War (see p5, 10 April 1923); building works at dispensaries and hospitals; compensation and pension claims arising from the winding-up of the poor law unions; matters arising with the TB hospital in Birr; commandeering of Dr Woods house at Kinnitty Dispensary by the military (p 43, 8 May 1923); tenders for the supply of provisions to the county home; details of patients at the hospital; proposal from Ministry of Local Government relating to the abolition of Hospital and Homes Committee and Substitution of the County Board of Health therefor under the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (p59, 17 May 1923); remaining furniture from Birr Union being taken to Birr Castle on its requisition by Free State Army (pp62-63, 17 May 1923); the condition of Birr workhouse following evacuation by Free State Army (p 64, 2 June 1923); financial issues arising from failure to return 'inmates' in county homes to their counties of origin on amalgamation in 1921; and a proposal by the Ministry of Local Government relating to the appointments of Home Assistance Officers.

Includes report by the Visiting Committee (James O'Connor, J. Scally and Teresa Wyer) on condition of county home (p71, 10 July 1923) and remarks on unfulfilled recommendations from the previous year's report. Also includes extracts from the report of Dr Florence Dillon, medical inspector with the Department of Local Government on the condition of the hospitals at Tullamore, Birr and Edenderry, recommending the closure of the latter (p76, 22 June 1923) .

Contains lists of boarded out children, their foster parents and details of their accommodation, general health and condition in a report of the inspector of boarded out children. (p.87, 10 July 1923)

Poster for a Carnival at Birr

  • IE OCL P110
  • Fonds
  • 1941

Poster advertising a carnival at Birr organised by the South Offaly Local Defence Force with dancing, parades and hurling tournaments.

South Offaly Local Defence Force

Pattern Book issued to Birr Barracks, 1881

  • IE OCL P128
  • Fonds
  • 1881

Volume of drawings and specifications of pattern articles to be adapted in War Department works and buildings. Issued to Birr Barracks.

The War Department

Workhouse accounts

Two volumes March 1857- September 1870 and 25 March 1871-29 September 1878, of workhouse accounts for the Borrisokane, Kildysart, Nenagh, Parsonstown, and Roscrea Poor Law Unions.

The account books were put together and kept by Henry Trench due to his involvement with the Poor Law Unions.

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