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Application and report book for the relieving officer to enter applications for relief. This book records approximately 500 applications and contains details on the applicant's circumstances and subsequently the decision of the Board of Guardians to grant outdoor relief or to admit the applicant to the workhouse.
Also contains the first record of boarded-out children from Tullamore Union under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1862.
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.
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.
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.
