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Account ledger detailing the payments made by the union's Dispensary Districts. Payments are recorded under columns headed; date, name of officer, for, no. of paying order, medicine and medical appliances, rent of dispensary buildings, books, forms, stationery, printing and advertising, Medical Officers salaries and payments for temporary services, Dispensary Caretakers salaries for payments of temporary services, Midwives for payments of temporary services, vaccination expenses and other expenses.

Accounts from September 1916 to September 1925 are arranged by a monthly account of the payments of the Dispensary Districts of Banagher; Ferbane; Frankford; Birr and Killyon; Kinnitty; Riverstown.

Following the abolishment of the Union in 1925, and the transfer to the county councils' Board of Health, this ledger appears to have been repurposed to include payment accounts broadly across the county, and includes the accounts of Blueball/Killoughey; Daignean/Geashill; Tullamore; Cloneygowan and Portarlington; Kilcormac; Edenderry; Rhode; Rathangan; Roscrea; Shinrone; Moneygall, Tullamore County Hospital; Birr District Hospital; Edenderry District Hospital; Clara.

Volumes of financial minutes books for Parsonstown Union, divided into two tables of financial and statistical minutes of pre-printed headings.
Table A records the sums extracted from the financial statement book of receipts of payments received from County Council, repayment of relief, rates of dispensary residences, farm account, sales and other receipts, transfer loan account.
Table B record the sums extracted from the financial statement book of expenditure of payments ordered for the sundry accounts, workhouse burials, district schools account, maintenance in extern institutions, emigration, law and other expense, medical charities, lunacy fees to medical officers, registration of births, deaths, and marriages of vaccinations, superannuation allowances, fees of teachers, expenses of local committees, repayment of loans, relieving officers' accounts, repayment of advances under seed supply acts, unpaid bills and expenditure out of loans.
Also includes summary and reconcilement of treasurers' account for month end.

Counterpart of lease between Captain Caulfield French and Margaret French of Castlebernard of the first part, and the Guardians of the Poor of Parsonstown Union of the other part concerning a plot of land adjoining the village of Kinnitty in the townland of The Walk, Parish of Kinnitty, in the barony of Ballybritt and King’s County containing three roods statue measure, on which plot the lessees intend erecting a residence for the Medical Officer of the Kinnitty Dispensary District. It is proposed that the premises will be held by the lesees and their successors for the term of 60 years from the 1 November 1896 for the yearly rent of 18 shillings and nine pence by equal half yearly payments. Includes small map of the plot of land, drawn by James Kennedy, Parsonstown. Scale, 1 inch to a statute chain.

Rental account book for Labourers' Cottages in the following districts: Derryad, Ferbane, Doon, Gallen, Shannonbridge, Frankford (Kilcormac), Letter, Rathcabban, Moyclare, Kinnitty, Ballycumber, Kilcoleman, Srah, Banagher, Parsonstown (Birr), Seir Kieran, Killylyon.

Folios are arranged by tenant names and record the rental period, the amount of rent, if paid by cash and name of collector. Alphabetical surname index at beginning of volume.

Loose pages of notes copied by 'H.D.' on 14 December 1891 'from particulars made out from old Minute Books for Mr. John Wright for his Directory and history of King's County in November 1889".
Lists holders of the following positions in the workhouse for the 50 years between the opening of the workhouse in 1842 and when the notes were compiled in 1889: chairmen; clerks of the union; masters of the workhouse; Protestant chaplains of the workhouse; Roman Catholic chaplains of the workhouse; the first inmate admitted; financial arrangements; furniture suppliers; meeting houses; and medical officers of the workhouse.

The minutes contain the proceedings of the meetings of the Board of Guardians of Parsonstown Union, containing reports from the clerk of the union, the master of the workhouse, the sanitary officers and others. Also recorded are members present, details of correspondence, proposals and resolution passed.

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.

Minute books, accounts ledgers, reports, workhouse registers, and ancillary material relating to the creation, administration, and eventual dissolution of Parsonstown Union from its establishment in May 1839 to its dissolution in 1925. The union’s Board of Guardians were responsible for overseeing several functions of local government; primarily the care of the poor, including the setting up, financing and running of the workhouse, the creation of dispensary districts, assisted migration and outdoor relief.

The main set of records are the minute books of the Boards of Guardians, comprising 97 volumes. Other material is financial in nature, such as the financial minute books and repayment of relief account book. Three registers of the Parsonstown (Birr) workhouse survive; 1842-1843, 1849-1850 and loose pages from a 1912 registers. As the Board of Guardians also oversaw the dispensary districts in the union, there is a ledger relating to their activities, as well as a copy of the lease for the Kinnitty dispensary residences.

Parsonstown Union’s area of operation covered 234 square miles from two counties: from Offaly (King’s County) – Banagher, Drumcullen, Eglish, Ferbane, Frankfort, Kilcoleman, Kinnety, Lemanagan, Letter, Lusmagh, Seirkyrans, Parsonstown, Shannon Bridge, Shannon Harbour and Tissarin. From County Tipperary – Aglishcloghane, Ballingarry, Dorha, Lockeen, Lorha and Uskeane.

Account ledger of the Parsonstown Union Collecting Committee, containing the following accounts:

• 'Sums received from persons in receipt of relief by way of loan', listing date, from whom received, number of days of loan, the electoral division which will receive amount and the amount given;

• 'Sums received on account of articles sold', listing date, from whom account is to be credited, e.g. "Patrick Daly sold old rags and shoes, and the money is to be credited to the clothing a/c" ;

• 'Sums received for relief administered by way of loan and for constabulary patients', listing date, from whom received, and to whom relief is to be administered (listed by occupation rather than name).

Also includes miscellaneous correspondence pasted into the endpapers of the volume.

Three incomplete volumes recording details of residents admitted to the Parsonstown (Birr) Workhouse, the first of which dating from the opening of the workhouse in April 1842.

Provides details of names of inmates, previous residence, date when admitted or born in workhouse, whether male/female, age, marital status, employment, religion, disability type, and date when discharged or died in workhouse. Volumes from 1842-1843 and 1849-1850 contain index of names.