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Ledger recording provisions and necessities required per week for the workhouse, such as bread, beef, mutton, bacon, butter, potatoes, oatmeal, treacle, eggs, salt, condiments, tobacco, porter, and sanitary materials.

Ledger kept by the workhouse master, Daniel Rowan, recording all invoices received and the value of goods delivered or work completed on behalf of the Boards of Guardians, mainly suppliers of food and other provisions such as clothing and bedding.

Medical Officer: Dr J. Ridley, Tullamore
Relieving Officers: James Dunne, James Lynam, Stephen Lynam

Medical Officer: Dr J. Ridley, Tullamore
Relieving Officers: James Dunne, James Lynam, Stephen Lynam

Medical Officer: Dr James Ridley, Tullamore
Relieving Officers: James Dunne, James Lynam, Stephen Lynam

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.

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.

Minute books, accounts ledgers, reports, and ancillary material relating to the creation, administration, and eventual dissolution of Tullamore Union from its establishment in 1839 to the closure of Tullamore Workhouse in August 1921. The main set of records are the minute books of the boards of guardians, comprising 112 volumes from an original set of 128 volumes. Other material is financial in nature, such as the treasurer’s account books and rates returns. No workhouse admission and discharge registers survive, but an important volume entitled Application and Report Book from 1862/1863, provides details of the relief applications for approximately 500 applicants. Other workhouse material is in the form of provisions registers and daybooks, as well as an architectural drawing of alterations to the Infirmary at the workhouse. As the Board of Guardians also oversaw the dispensary districts in the union, there is a set of minute books relating to the five dispensary districts with accompanying district notices in poster 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