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Manuscript Sources

Minute Books of Carlow Union Board of Guardians 1845- 1923

Reports

Nicholls, George - Poor-Laws Ireland

Other Sources

Griffith, Richard - General Valuation of Ireland - County of Carlow, Valuation of the Lands and Tenements within the several Baronies, Parishes and Townlands in the said County [1844]
Griffith, Richard - General Valuation of Ireland Queens' County [1846]
Griffith, Richard - Primary Valuation of Tenements [1853]

Newspapers

The Carlow Sentinel
The Leinster Reformer
The Carlow Post
The Carlow Independent
The Carlow Nationalist
The Illustrated London News, Vol. 15
The Illustrated London News, Vol. 16

Books

Burke, Helen - The People and the Poor Law in 19th Century Ireland. [1987]
Byrne, Joseph - Byrne's Dictionary of Irish Local History from earliest times to c1902 [2004]
Clark, Samuel and Donnelly, James S. (editors) - Irish Peasants Violence and Political Unrest 1780-1914 [1983]
Crossman, Virginia - Local Government in Nineteenth-Century Ireland [1994]
Kelly, John - Carlow Workhouse Project Report [1990]
O'Connor, John - The Workhouses of Ireland, The fate of Irelands' Poor [1995]
O'Donovan, John - Members and Messengers, Carlow's 20th Century Parliamentarians [2003]
Vaughan, W.E. (ed.) - A New History of Ireland vol 5, Ireland Under the Union, 1801-70 [1989]

Journal Articles

O'Neill, Thomas P. - The Famine in Carlow (in) Carloviana, Vol.1, No.1 [1947]
O'Shea, Sean - Carlow Poor Law Union, the Early Years [in] Carloviana, No. 52 [2003]
Robins, J.A. - Carlow Workhouse during the Famine years (in) Carloviana No. 24 [1975]
Foley, Thomas (Tottie) (submitted by Patrick Foley) - The Carlow Workhouse (in) Carolviana No. 47 [1999]

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