Irish Historical Material · Victorian Dublin · Original Ephemera
South Dublin Union — Victorian Poor’s Rate Receipt, Burlington Road, 1883
Original printed tax receipt · Donnybrook Electoral Division · 14 March 1883
Catalogue details
Description
An original Victorian Irish tax receipt, issued by the South Dublin Union on 14 March 1883 for the Poor’s Rate assessed on 6 Burlington Road, within the Donnybrook Electoral Division. Printed in red and black with contemporary handwritten entries and a collector’s signature.
- Date
- 14 March 1883
- Place
- 6 Burlington Road, Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Issuing authority
- South Dublin Union
- Electoral division
- Donnybrook
- Property
- 6 Burlington Road, Dublin
- Valuation
- £80 net annual value
- Printed rate
- 1s. 10d. in the pound
- Receipt number
- 101
- Printer
- Dollard, Dublin
- Format
- Original single-sheet printed receipt, red and black letterpress, with manuscript entries
- Extent
- One original document; reverse not illustrated
- Dimensions
- Measurements gladly provided on request
- Reference
- TBH-IRL-EPH-SOUTH-DUBLIN-1883
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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Historical context & sources
A document of Victorian Dublin’s Poor Law administration
The South Dublin Union was established in 1839 as part of the Irish Poor Law system. Local rates on property helped finance poor relief, including the administration and maintenance of workhouse institutions. This receipt records payment concerning a house at 6 Burlington Road, in the Donnybrook Electoral Division.
The form is attractively printed in red and black and carries an assessment date of 11 January 1883, a stated net annual value of £80 and the rate of one shilling and ten pence per pound. It was completed and signed by hand on 14 March 1883.
Printer and documentary interest
The footline identifies Dollard, Printer, Dublin, providing a second point of interest for collectors of nineteenth-century Irish commercial printing. The handwritten taxpayer and collector names have not been conclusively identified and are not attributed here.
Surviving original paperwork of this kind gives a direct view of household taxation, local government and everyday urban life in Victorian Ireland.
Collecting interest
Suitable for collectors of Irish social history, Dublin topography, Victorian administration, historical taxation and original Irish documentary ephemera.
