Civil Parishes’ Responses to Begging
Civil Parishes’ Responses to Begging
The decades immediately before the Great Famine witnessed a significant shift in the civil role of the parish vestry in Ireland and a related transformation in how communities managed beggary in their locality. From the seventeenth century parishes throughout Ireland oversaw systems of licenced parochial badging for local ‘deserving’ beggars, yet this practice was largely phased out by the mid-nineteenth century. Parochial officials included officers of health, whose responsibilities included the removal of iterant beggars from local thoroughfares for the purpose of mitigating the spread of epidemic disease.
Keywords: Parishes, Badges, Beggars, Officers of Health, Constables
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