Parsonstown (Birr) Workhouse

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      • Also known locally as 'The Gorm'

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            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
            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.

            Workhouse Records
            IE OCL BG164/7 · Series · 1842 - 1912
            Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

            Three incomplete volumes recording details of residents admitted to the Parsonstown (Birr) Workhouse, the first of which dating from the opening of the workhouse in April 1842.

            Provides details of names of inmates, previous residence, date when admitted or born in workhouse, whether male/female, age, marital status, employment, religion, disability type, and date when discharged or died in workhouse. Volumes from 1842-1843 and 1849-1850 contain index of names.

            Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union
            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
            IE OCL BG164/5 · Item · 1889-1891
            Part of Records of Parsonstown Union

            Loose pages of notes copied by 'H.D.' on 14 December 1891 'from particulars made out from old Minute Books for Mr. John Wright for his Directory and history of King's County in November 1889".
            Lists holders of the following positions in the workhouse for the 50 years between the opening of the workhouse in 1842 and when the notes were compiled in 1889: chairmen; clerks of the union; masters of the workhouse; Protestant chaplains of the workhouse; Roman Catholic chaplains of the workhouse; the first inmate admitted; financial arrangements; furniture suppliers; meeting houses; and medical officers of the workhouse.

            Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law Union
            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.