XII Relief Committee Minutes (1847)

XII Relief Committee Minutes  (1847)

Volume of handwritten minutes and correspondence of Limerick Relief Committee meetings. Minutes record those present at the meeting, all committee correspondence which mainly consists of requests for assistance e.g. ‘Contributions for the purpose of providing a portion of bread for the destitute children who daily attend the Parochial Female School at Killaloe and Ballina’ and replies, each letter begins ‘respected friend’.

Also includes records of grants made by the Irish Auxiliary Central Relief Committee showing to whom the grant was given, the area for which it was provided, it’s amount and purpose e.g. ‘£10 was given to the Bishop of Killaloe for a soup/porridge shop’.

• MM/IX/P1                   24 January 1847- l 12 April 1847                     
• MM/IX/P2                   17 April 1847-[20 May 1847]                        
• MM/IX/P3                   14 April 1847-6 July 1847