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          Workhouse Register 1849-1850
          Workhouse Register 1849-1850
          IE OCL BG164/7/2 · Item · 1849-1850
          Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

          Register recording details of residents admitted to the Parsonstown Workhouse dating from January 1849 to April 1850. Includes index of name and register number.

          Provides details of names of resident, sex, age, marital status, employment, religion, disability type, name of spouse, number of children, observations, electoral division and townland, date when admitted or born in workhouse, and date when discharged or died in workhouse.
          Workhouse Register 1842-1843
          Workhouse Register 1842-1843
          IE OCL BG164/7/1 · Item · 1842-1843
          Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

          Register recording details of residents admitted to the Parsonstown Workhouse, the first of which dating from the opening of the workhouse on 2 April 1842 to June 1843. Includes 12 pages of index of name and register number.

          Provides details of names of resident, sex, age, marital status, employment, religion, disability type, name of spouse, number of children, observations, electoral division and townland, date when admitted or born in workhouse, and date when discharged or died in workhouse.
          Parsonstown Union Outgoing Letter-book
          IE OH OHS71 · Item · 1849-1853

          Copies of outgoing letters from John V. Brown, clerk of Parsonstown Union to various recipients, particularly the Poor Law Commissioners, detailing reliefs and works. Also includes copy outgoing correspondence relating to assisted emigration schemes for inmates of the Parsonstown workhouse during the course of the Great Famine.

           Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union
          Memoir by Kathleen Barnwell, Birr
          IE OCL P31 · Item · 1918-1985

          Typescript of memoir titled ‘Do You Remember’. Recounts the life in Birr and covers the following subjects: soldiers from Birr returning from World War I (1918), the Treaty (1921), occupation of Free State Troops of ‘The Gorm' (the workhouse) in Birr (1922), burning of Crinkle Barracks (1922) and other reminiscences of life in Birr from 1930s to 1980s.

           Barnwell, Kathleen
          Indoor Admissions and Discharge Register 1912
          IE OCL BG164/7/3 · Item · 1912
          Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

          Fragments of indoor admissions and discharge register of residents admitted to the Parsonstown Workhouse in 1912.

          Provides details of date when admitted or born in workhouse, next meal after admission, name, religion, register number, ate when discharged or died in workhouse.