Poor Law Union, Town Commissioners and estate records amongst newly digitised archival material now available online
Kildare County Archives is delighted to make new digitised archival material available online. This release includes a selection of volumes related to the Athy Board of Guardians, including Minute Books (1841-1862) and a Register of Interments for St. Michael’s Cemetery, Athy (1875-1900); an Athy Town Commissioners Minute Book (1855-1891), and Newbridge Town Commissioners’ Minute Books (1891-1984, with gaps). Also included in this release are two rent books of the Marquis of Drogheda relating to lands in Monasterevin, Co. Kildare and Mountmellick, Co. Laois; the first volume is a Marquis of Drogheda Rental Book recording arrears and rents due in 1874 and 1875 for the Manors of Fontstown and Monasterevin in Co. Kildare, and Maryborough, Mellifont and Mountmellick in Co. Laois. The second volume records arrears and rents collected for the Monasterevin and Mountmellick estates from 03 February 1879 to 1888. These records are useful as census substitutes in the absence of Irish census returns before 1901. The digitisation of these volumes was funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s Commemorations Fund 2024.
This adds further to the digitised collections now available online including Athy Poor Law Union Admission and Discharge Registers (1878-1918), Naas Poor Law Union Minute Books (1839-1859), Kildare County Council Minute Books (1899-1939), Naas Urban District Council Minute Books (1910-1924), various registers of interments, records of the County Kildare Grand Jury (1809-1893) and some Curragh Internment Camp autograph books from the 1920s. Online access to these records will assist researchers interested in the development of towns such as Athy, Naas and Newbridge, and the county at large, as well as those engaged in genealogical research.
This material is freely available via Kildare County Archives Online Archives service at https://kildarecoco.ie/library/KildareCountyArchivesandLocalStudies/Archives/OnlineArchives/
Enquiries to archives@kildarecoco.ie
