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Photograph of an elderly woman wearing a lace embelished dress with an anchor shape broach at her neck. Printed by William Lawrence, Dublin.
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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)
Photograph of Maria Blanche Fuller.
Deeds relating to the marriage settlement between Thomas Homan Mulock of Bellair of the first part, and Thomas Berry of Eglish Castle, and his daughter, Frances Sophia Berry of the second part, and John Berry of North Anne Street, of the city of Dublin and Thomas Mulock of Kilnagarna, of the third part.The settlement grants the release of parts of the lands of Killeenboylegan, Ballinagaraby and Curries, the town and lands of Skeeanagh and Curraghdown, and lands of Ballyard (otherwise Bellair), to be held in trust until the solemnisation of the intended marriage, and thereafter upon trust to Thomas Homan Mulock during his life, and to Frances Sophia Berry and her assigns, should she survive her intended husband, shall receive annuity or annual rent out of said town, lands and premises, for her natural life.
'Ballycommon Rectory Aug 2nd 1904'.
