Cartlanna Digitithe
Digitised Archives
Poor Law Unions (PLU)
A selection of material relating to the Athy and Naas Poor Law Unions is available via the links below:
Repository Code: IE 2036
Archive Reference: KCA/PLUA/M/1-6
Title: Minute Books of the Athy Board of Guardians
Creation Dates: 1841-1862, with gaps
Extent Medium: 25 volumes
Copies Information: Six of the surviving 25 Athy Board of Guardians Minute books have been digitised and can be viewed via the links below. Kildare County Archives acknowledges the support of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media under the Commemorations fund 2024 to digitise the volumes.
KCA/PLUA/M/1 29 April 1841 – 21 March 1844
KCA/PLUA/M/2 08 March 1856 – 10 September 1856
KCA/PLUA/M/3 27 September 1856 – 25 March 1857
KCA/PLUA/M/4 03 October 1857 – 31 March 1858
KCA/PLUA/M/5 19 October 1861 – 18 April 1862
KCA/PLUA/M/6 19 April 1862 – 11 October 1862
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Repository Code: IE 2036
Archive Reference: KCA/PLUA/R/1-18
Title: Admission and Discharge Registers of Athy Board of Guardians
Creation Dates: 1875-1918, with gaps
Extent Medium: 18 volumes
Copies Information: Seventeen volumes of the Athy Board of Guardians Admission and Discharge Registers and one index to the registers have been digitised and can be viewed via the links below. PLUA/R/2-18 were microfilmed in 2007 with funding from The Heritage Council under the Archives and Museums grant scheme. Following conservation work supported as part of a Creative Ireland Kildare project, PLUA/R/1 was digitised in 2025.
KCA/PLUA/R/1 22 September 1875 - 19 September 1878
KCA/PLUA/R/2 10 September 1878 - 10 September 1880
KCA/PLUA/R/3 13 October 1888 - 28 March 1890
KCA/PLUA/R/4 22 February 1890 - 10 November 1891
KCA/PLUA/R/5 11 November 1891 - 28 November 1893
KCA/PLUA/R/6 08 August 1893 - 01 May 1896
KCA/PLUA/R/7 11 April 1896 - 06 June 1899
KCA/PLUA/R/8 10 May 1899 - 12 May 1902
KCA/PLUA/R/9 09 April 1902 - 27 October 1904
KCA/PLUA/R/10 21 November 1904 - 05 August 1906
KCA/PLUA/R/11 12 September 1906 - 13 May 1908
KCA/PLUA/R/12 09 June 1908 - 27 January 1910
KCA/PLUA/R/13 12 May 1910 - 28 January 1911
KCA/PLUA/R/14 22 March 1910 - 03 November 1911
KCA/PLUA/R/15 05 April 1913 - 24 October 1914
KCA/PLUA/R/16 02 October 1914 - 28 August 1916
KCA/PLUA/R/17 02 August 1916 - 17 July 1918
KCA/PLUA/R/18 Index to Registers - Incomplete and damaged. This is an index to PLUA/R/10.
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Identity Statement
Repository Code: IE 2036
Archive Reference: PLUN/M
Title: Minute Books of Naas Board of Guardians
Creation Dates: 1839-1922, with gaps
Extent Medium: 137
Copies Information: Thirty-one volumes of Naas Board of Guardians’ minute books have been digitised to date and can be accessed via the links below. These volumes were microfilmed in 2007 with funding from The Heritage Council under the Archives and Museums grant scheme.
KCA/PLUN/M/1-10 05 April 1839 - 04 October 1848
KCA/PLUN/M/10-20 10 October 1846 - 18 December 1850
KCA/PLUN/M/21-30 28 December 1850 - 26 December 1855
KCA/PLUN/M/31-35 03 January 1857 - 29 June 1859
Related Material: Athy Board of Guardians (KCA/APLU); Celbridge Board of Guardians (KCA/CPLU).
Publications:
Naas Poor Law Union during the Famine, by Karel Kiely (1994).
A history of Naas Hospital from Workhouse to Hospital, Naas Local History Group (1998).
Poverty in Naas Parish 1835-1849, by Diarmaid Russell (2019).
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