Parsonstown (Birr) Workhouse

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      • Also known locally as 'The Gorm'

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            Workhouse Register 1849-1850
            Workhouse Register 1849-1850
            IE OCL BG164/7/2 · Item · 1849-1850
            Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

            Register recording details of residents admitted to the Parsonstown Workhouse dating from January 1849 to April 1850. Includes index of name and register number.

            Provides details of names of resident, sex, age, marital status, employment, religion, disability type, name of spouse, number of children, observations, electoral division and townland, date when admitted or born in workhouse, and date when discharged or died in workhouse.
            Workhouse Register 1842-1843
            Workhouse Register 1842-1843
            IE OCL BG164/7/1 · Item · 1842-1843
            Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

            Register recording details of residents admitted to the Parsonstown Workhouse, the first of which dating from the opening of the workhouse on 2 April 1842 to June 1843. Includes 12 pages of index of name and register number.

            Provides details of names of resident, sex, age, marital status, employment, religion, disability type, name of spouse, number of children, observations, electoral division and townland, date when admitted or born in workhouse, and date when discharged or died in workhouse.
            Parsonstown Union Outgoing Letter-book
            IE OH OHS71 · Item · 1849-1853

            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.

             Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union
            Indoor Admissions and Discharge Register 1912
            IE OCL BG164/7/3 · Item · 1912
            Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

            Fragments of indoor admissions and discharge register of residents admitted to the Parsonstown Workhouse in 1912.

            Provides details of date when admitted or born in workhouse, next meal after admission, name, religion, register number, ate when discharged or died in workhouse.