Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1849

Names of persons relieved to be entered in books.

24. The board of guardians of each union shall cause the names of all persons relieved out of the poor rates to be duly entered in books to be kept, one for the union at large and one for each electoral division, and under the heads of the townlands in which they are stated to have last resided, and such books shall be open to the inspection of all persons assessed to the poor rate within the union from ten o’clock in the forenoon until four o’clock in the afternoon on one day at least in each week.