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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
70. 28 January 1891 – 22 July 1891 Includes details relating to the purchase, shipping,
inspection & distribution of seed potatoes, also to relief
works and the out-door relief, and also:-
- Details and reference to relief works (p32c) including transcript of a letter from R. Atterson
Blake to the BG regarding relief works in Selerna advising that „A considerable number
gathered on the occasion of the intended opening of the works to manifest their destitution and
want. They clamoured for food and because they felt the [pang] of hunger as much as those
who were directed to put on the works there were no relief works at all engaged in, and thus
that time there was no effort to relieve the famine of the people who were then recognised by
the Government to be in want, nor to bring relief to those who then complained so bitterly and
so loudly. This Electoral Division is undoubtedly the poorest in the Clifden Union. It is rated
higher than any other Electoral Division in said Union. There are only 29 ratepayers in the
Division while at this moment there are 251 persons on out-door-relief‟ (p410d).
- „Resolved: That in consequence of no boats being on the Island of Omey the poor people
employed on the Relief Works now opened in Silerna Division suffer much having to wade their
way through the tide sometimes at the risk of their lives and sometimes will be altogether
unable to attend owing to the fact that there is not a boat on the Island, in which there are 29
families. The best way that these poor miserable people can be relieved is to supply them with
a few boats and open some works on the Island‟ (p72).
- „We the Guardians….entering on our duties for the years 1891 & 1892 find the monetary
affairs of the Union in such an embarrassed state with such extreme distress existing in the
Union all classes more or less affected by it that we feel it our bounden duty to bring the matter
under the notice of the Government and seek its assistance to enable us to extricate the Union
from its financial difficulties…‟ (p290).
(71.)
72. 3 February 1892 – 23 March 1892, Rough Minute book. Includes:
1 October 1892 – 8 February 1893
- Master reports that „Anne Fox aged 28 years married with four children were brought to the
workhouse in the ambulance car on the 4 th inst. She presented an order for admission from
Relieving Officer Canavan. This woman states she is a native of the County of Donegal and
wife of a stone mason, working at Cashel who has deserted herself and children‟
Ordered: that Francis Fox, the husband, be prosecuted‟ (p27).
- „I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Resolution which has been
adopted by the Board of Guardians of Clifden Union on the occasion of the death of his Royal
Highness The Duke of Clarence and Avondale K.G and I have to inform you that Her Majesty
was pleased to receive the Resolution very graciously.
I have the honour to be Sirs,
Your obedient servant
Henry Mathews‟ (p49).
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’
36.