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dissolved, including those for three contiguous poor law union in County
Tipperary: Thurles, Cashel and Tipperary. On 29 June 1849, Henry William Massy, former chairman of the Board of Guardians for Tipperary Poor Law Union told the Select Committee on Poor Laws (Ireland) at Westminster that the "sealed orders for the dissolution of the Board of Guardians came down on the 9th of January 1849", so it is possible that the Thurles board was dissolved at the same time.
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187:, the Poor Law Commissioners' architect, and was based on one of his standard plans, with the intention that it accommodate 700 people. It was declared fit for use on 25 April 1842 and the first inmates were admitted on 7 November that year.
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At the time of the 1831 census, the population of the area that later made up the union was 64,235, the divisional populations ranging from 1,237 in
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