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Records of Tullamore Union
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Report of the Engineering Inspector on housing

Cover letter enclosing inspection reports by Louis E. H. Deane, Engineering Inspector, on 23 houses unfit for human habitation in the Tullamore Union district, as per the Labourer (Ireland) Acts Scheme No. III. The reports record the name of the electoral division, the townland, the name of the occupier, and a detailed description of the reason the house is unfit for human habitation.

Rate Return Form

Returns form for Tullamore Union for abstract of rate collected and lodged by rate collectors. Records name of collector and the electoral divisions in their district; the total amount of current rate exclusive of arrears; total amount of arrears; and total amount of present rate inclusive of arrears of former rate. Subtotalled per division and totalled for union to £5806.19.6

Application and Report Book (Outdoor Relief)

Application and Report Book (Outdoor Relief)

Application and report book for the relieving officer to enter applications for relief. This book records approximately 500 applications and contains details on the applicant's circumstances and subsequently the decision of the Board of Guardians to grant outdoor relief or to admit the applicant to the workhouse.

Also contains the first record of boarded-out children from Tullamore Union under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1862.

Treasurer's Account Book

Account book documenting payment by numbered paying order to relieving officers; salaries and repayment of disbursements; and payments to suppliers. Also records income such as amounts paid in by King's County Council.

Financial Statement Book

Outsized financial statement book, listing payments by the Treasurer such as advance outdoor relief to the three relieving officers, James Lynam, John Buckley and Mary Keegan for disbursement to relief recipients. Also records payments to other guardians for disbursements in respect of their work for the Board; salaries of workhouse and dispensary employees; and payments to businesses for provisions for the workhouse,

Labourers (Ireland) Acts Minute Book

Minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Guardians acting as the Rural Sanitary Authority, under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, mainly recording decisions taken in respect of collecting rents from labourers' cottages; the sinking of wells; and the erection of new cottages. Includes copy correspondence from the Local Government Board, as well as details of tenders and contracts awarded for new cottages or repairs/improvements to existing cottages.

Rate Book Ballycommon Electoral Division

Rate book for the electoral division of Ballycommon, comprising the townlands of Ballycommon, Ballytige Big, Ballytige Little, Bracklin Big, Bracklin Little, Derrygrogan Big, Derrygrogan Little, Fairfield, Kilmurray, Rathdrum, and Wood of O. Records the location of the rated property; description (bog; lands; house and garden; etc.,); name of occupier not paying seed rate; estimated extent of property; net annual value; name of immediate lessor; and the amount due under poor law & public health acts.

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