- IE OCL PTC40/1
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- 1865-1875; 1883-1897; 1897-1903
Minutes of Parsonstown Town Commissioners, recording the proceedings and decisions made at monthly meetings, special meetings and financial meetings.
Minutes of Parsonstown Town Commissioners, recording the proceedings and decisions made at monthly meetings, special meetings and financial meetings.
Records of Parsonstown Town Commissioners
4 Minute Books -
PTC40/1/1: July 1865 - June 1875 (note: includes Burial Board affairs).
PTC40/1/2: October 1883 - February 1890
PTC40/1/3: March 1890 - February 1897
PTC40/1/4: April 1897 - August 1899 and August 1899 - June 1903 (note: abstract only. Manuscript volume in private hands and loaned for abstracting purposes in 1989).
Parsonstown Burial Board
1 Minute Book -
PTC40/2: 7 June 1869 - 6 March 1871 and 7 April 1873 - 4 October 1897 (1 volume, including abstract).
1 Drawing -
PTC40/3: 11 June 1855, drawing designs for lowering Oxmantown Bridge, drawn by John Hill, Tullamore.
1 Accounts Book -
PTC40/4: 1879 - 1925
1 Pamphlet
PTC40/5: Bye Laws of the Town of Parsonstown made under the Public Health (Ireland) Act (1884)
Parsonstown Town Commissioners
Grand Jury Presentments Lent Assizes 1899
Volume containing abstracts of presentments granted and queries respited and discharged at the Lent Assizes, 28 February to 8 March 1899, the final meeting of the Grand Jury for the discharge of fiscal business, the county councils having been established under the Local Government Act of 1898. Full colour map of new county council districts is missing from this volume.
King's County Grand Jury
97 Minute Books
55 Rough Minute Books
1 Repayment of Relief Book
1 Rent Book
1 Document relating to the King's County Directory
1 Lease
3 Workhouse Registers
2 Financial Minute Books
1 Dispensary District Ledger
Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union
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.
Tullamore Union
Records of Edenderry Rural District Council
Incomplete records of Edenderry No 1 Rural District Council, notably missing minute books. The first series comprises sanitary officers' records in the form of a report register and a diary of works completed. Both of these registers continued to be used beyond the life of the rural district council, which was abolished in 1925, and its functions subsumed into the Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance.
The second series comprises abstracts of accounts prepared in final years of Edenderry RDC in 1924 and 1925.
Edenderry Rural District Council
Only 10 minute books survive as records of Edenderry Union covering the years 1879-1919, with many large gaps. There are no extant workhouse registers, registers of deaths, workhouse ledgers, outdoor relief registers, or registers of accounts.
A further known minute book from 1895, which was rescued from the workhouse following its demolition in 1976 and is now in private hands, has been transcribed by Dr Ciaran Reilly in an article ‘The minute book of Edenderry Poor Law Union, 1895’ in Offaly Heritage, Vol. 7 (Tullamore, 2013)
The minutes contain the proceedings of the meetings of the boards of guardians and contain reports from the clerk of the union, the master of the workhouse, the sanitary officers and others.
Edenderry Union
P. Boland - Parish Council post war
Parte de Papers of R.H. Moore
Ms. Letter from Patrick Boland T. D. regarding keeping the Parish Council going in the post war period.
Distribution of seed potatoes and seed wheat
Parte de Papers of R.H. Moore
File of correspondence in relation to the distribution of seed potatoes and seed wheat by Banagher Parish Council.
P. Boland appealing to farmers for increased food production
Parte de Papers of R.H. Moore
Statement from Patrick Boland, Chairman Offaly County Council appealing for the farmers of Leix and Offaly to increase food production and suggesting the Parish Council take a census of all arable land in the area and to impress on those who can to increase their acreage by 20 percent.