Annual salary (1879) for position of Post Mistress: £3

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Clare Freeman, Sat 8 Feb 1879:

Ennis Union. The minutes having been read and signed the relieving officers books were taken up, and amongst the applicants for out-door relief from the district of Newmarket was a woman named Ellen Higgins, represented by the relieving officer (Morrice) as the Postmistress at Bunratty, who had four children and in a destitute state, her salary from the Government being only £3 per annum.
Indignation was expressed at the paltry amount paid the Postmistress by the heads of the department, and an order made for an allowance of 2s 6d per week.

Sheila