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Donegal County Council
Under the 1903 Motor Car Act, vehicles including cars and motor cycles had to be registered. Donegal County Archives holds the oldest register, dating from 1903 to 1923, this is online:
*Note: The first bound volume having the minutes of the first Donegal County Council are with the digitised assizes and last minutes of the Donegal Grand Jury on this website. *
*Please note that the minutes of the meetings of Donegal County Council have not survived from May 1916 to Dec 1920. Local newspapers can make up a lot of the gaps in knowledge. *
*More Minutes to be uploaded in due course, from 1926-*
(**Rural District Councils: see below. - under Poor Law Unions Records. **
County Donegal Poor Law Union/Boards of Guardian Minutes of Meetings, 1916/1917:
Dunfanaghy Board of Guardians Minutes from mid-May 1916 to November 1916 have not been deposited in the County Archives and have probably not survived.
RURAL DISTRICT COUNCILS MINUTES OF MEETINGS
No Dunfanaghy RDC minute book survived from 1918 - 1919
There are no surviving Stranorlar RDC minutes from 1911 - 1918
This Rural District, despite its name, was based entirely within Donegal's boundaries.
Urban District Councils (later known as Town Councils)
1914 - 1915
1915 - 1918
1918 - 1921
1921 - 1924
1924 - 1926
(There are no known surviving Minutes of Buncrana UDC from 1917 - Nov 1920)