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Ledgers containing Form 23 (Home Assistance List) and Form 24 (Assistance Officer's Expenditure Book showing amount paid weekly to each recipient) on double folio spreads.

Form 23 records names of patients assisted and contains the following categorising columns against each name:

Adult Males (Permanently disabled by old age or infirmity; Temporarily disabled by sickness or accident; Able bodied; Wife; Children under 15)

Adult Females (Married (deserted by husband/husband in jail); Unmarried; Widows; Children (legitimate/illegitimate)

Orphans and Children assisted without either parent

Lunatics, Insane Persons and Idiots (Males; Females; Children under 15)

Orphans and Deserted Children Boarded out

Form 24 records the names of persons assisted and the following categorising columns against each name:

Nature of Assistance (in Money/in Kind)

27 weekly columns for input of amount received.

A note at the footer of each page instructs that entries relating to assistance granted in cases of sudden and urgent necessity are to be made in red ink.

Includes:

Reports on the repair of the bridge at Ballaghassen; new pump for Daingean; lighting of Portarlington; sewerage works at Chapel Rd, Edenderry; urgent repairs to pumps in Kinnitty; occurrence of diphtheria in Kilcormac; repairs to cottages in Edenderry; loan from Bank of Ireland to erect five cottages in Banagher; unsanitary condition of the well at Ballard, Charleville; cleaning of graveyards; occurrence of diphtheria in Edenderry; and limewashing of houses in Clara.

Pupil's daily attendance in tabular form for each class. Also notes discrepancy between number of pupils on the school roll and the actual attendance. There are no details of pupils' names.

Pupil's daily attendance in tabular form for each class. Also notes discrepancy between number of pupils on the school roll and the actual attendance. There are no details of pupils' names.