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Poor Houses, Poor Law information for County Offaly (Kings) and places above it in the hierarchy
County Offaly (Kings)
- Parsonstown Poor Law Union - on the Workhouse site
- Tullamore Poor Law Union - on the Workhouse site
Ireland
General Information
The Workhouse website gives an overview of Poor Law & Workhouses in Ireland, together with information about some individual workhouses includes history, maps & photographs.
PRONI (Belfast) has produced an online downloadable leaflet outlining the Poor House records that they hold covering Northern Ireland.
A number of workhouses have re-opened as Heritage Centres and Museums giving an insight into life in the Workhouse,
Records
- Scanned images of the Index to those who applied for admission into the Belfast Workhouse between 1892 & 1921 are available online from PRONI (Belfast). To view/download these images, search the PRONI Catalogue for PRONI Ref: "BG/7/GK/1". This index shows names & ages, together with a reference number.
- Manuscript: Poor Rate Collection books for the Celbridge Poor Law Union,1855 at NLI Dublin.
Other Online Resources
- Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
- Ireland, Poor Law Union Removals From England, 1859-1860 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
- Dublin Workhouses Admission & Discharge Registers 1840-1919 on Find My Past (££/€€/$$)
- Sligo Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers 1848-1859 on Find My Past (££/€€/$$)
- Sustainability Loan Fund, 1821-1874 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
- Sustainability Loan Fund, 1812-1868 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
- Poverty Relief Loans 1821-1874 on Find My Past (££/€€/$$)
Publications
- The Workhouses of Ireland by John O’Connor Anvil 1995
- The Poor Law and the workhouse in Belfast, 1838-1948 by Michael Farrell, PRONI, 1978.
- The Establishment of poor-law unions in Ireland 1838-43 by Gerard O'Brien.
- The poor law in Ireland 1838-1948 by Virginia Crossman. 2006.
- Derry and the Irish Poor Law by Patrick Durnin, Waterside Community Local History Group ,1991
UK and Ireland
- Peter Higginbotham's comprehensive The Workhouse website provides a wealth of information about Workhouses, the Poor Law and related issues.catalogue
- If you are looking for someone who was in a workhouse, it is worth checking if they also appear in the Quarter Sessions records, held in County Record Offices - see the British Library's Discovery catalogue (use Advanced Search and select "Search Other Archives").
- You can search and freely download documents of a number of Poor Law Unions across England and Wales from TNA.
- Settlement Examinations in England and Wales - a detailed explanation, from LDS Familysearch, based on an article by Anthony Camp.