Clifden Poor Law Union archive collection, Descriptive List, GPL3.pdf

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
to such an extent as that proposed for a permanent assistant viz £1 per week. That Festy King
be appointed a permanent assistant Clerk at £1 per week‟ (pp121-122, see also p312).
- „That we the Guardians…..having carefully examined into the state of the potato crop in our
several Electoral Divisions find it so seriously damaged by the blight that we consider scarcely
a third of the expected crop will be available as food for the people. We therefore feel it our
regretful but imperative duty to bring the matter under the notice of the Government, trusting
means will be taken to provide against any emergency by at once commencing the
constructions of the Galway and Clifden Railway thereby affording honest remunerative
employment for the people‟ (p154b, 20 Aug 1890).
- Details of salaries paid (pp197-198 and p325).
- „The Clerk submitted estimates of repairs required to be made in workhouse buildings and
stated that they would amount to £300 or £400.
The Board having had under consideration the estimate for the repairs of the workhouse
amounting to the sum of £400, are of opinion that although the repairs are required they feel
that in the present financial state of the Union they could not undertake so large an outlay but
the Board earnestly request the LGB to come to their aid out of any available funds in their
control‟ (p202, see also p217).
- „LGB letter no. 39633 dated 14 October 1890 forwarding letter from Eliza Burke, an inmate of
workhouse…‟ (p217, see also p249).
- „Resolved: That owing to the distress that is likely to prevail and is now actually prevailing in
this Union the Board consider that the Railway work, grateful as we are for it, will not meet the
wants of the poor in the remote districts of this Union and that we respectfully ask the
Government to open some other useful public works in the parts too remote from the railway
works, and we would suggest that the people in the remote places get employment in repairing
or making piers or harbours, or making roads or any other works the Government would
consider useful and knowing how demoralising any system of gratuitous relief is we would
respectfully submit that it would be better give the people employment or their own holdings
than any such relief. Knowing that the hands of the Chief Secretary are full of other important
business a copy of this be sent for expediency to the Under Secretary…‟ (p282).
- Tributes to John Burke, deceased, Clerk of the Union, including one from James H. Tuke, who
established the assisted emigration scheme in the early 1880s (pp330-31).
- „Resolved that observing the widespread distress which now exists in the several electoral
divisions of this Union, and that the construction of the Railway from Galway to Clifden has not
so far given employment to one fourth of the applicants for work thereon, we consider it our
duty to call the attention of the Chief Secretary to the wants of the poor as here exist with the
view of opening up relief works to give employment to the many applications for work and that
part of the charitable funds now in possession of the Chief Secretary may be applied to this
District with a view of, as early as possible, relieving the distressful poor‟ (p410c).
Cartlann Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe „…cuimhne dhoiciméadach Chontae na Gaillimhe a shealbhú, a chaomhnú agus a dhéanamh inrochtana’
Galway County Council - Archives „…to acquire, preserve and make accessible the documentary memory of county Galway’
35.