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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
76. 21 March 1894 – 12 September 1894 Includes:
- LGB requesting „…return showing for each of the five years preceding the 31 st December
1893 the number of paupers removed from England and Scotland to the Union‟ (p34).
- Tenders for the supply of outdoor relief (pp37-8).
- Tender for „coffins made out of ¾ inch deal board, planed with trunk lids…‟ (p51).
- „Resolved: That in consequence of the large number of tramps seeking the shelter of the
workhouse by ticket from Relieving Officers, the Guardians direct the particular attention of
the R.O. to the 3 rd & 4 th sections of the 10 & 11 Vic., Cap. 84 and, in future when tramp
seeks or applies for relief by ticket of admission to the House a second time, the R.O. will
hand such person over to the Constabulary and have him prosecuted, and that the Master of
the Workhouse will in future cause each tramp to get a cold bath, night and morning, and in
all other respects to carry out the law in accordance with Article 24 of the Workhouse rules‟
(p61, see also p164, see also p425).
- „Read letter from Mr Mullarkey, Clifden complaining of the unsanitary state of the public drain
or gullet opposite his hotel‟ (p177).
- LGB letter „stating that unless the Guardian take immediate steps to put the Labourers Acts
into force in their Union they will be liable to lose the benefit of the Parliamentary Grant
£183.11.3 (p179).
- The Master advised that „there were no potatoes in the store for the inmates‟ dinner on last
Thursday. Bread had to be substituted. I attended the market on last Saturday for the
purpose of getting some. All the potatoes were then bought up at 5 d per stone. In the
absence of any orders I did not consider I was justified in giving that price even though any
were for sale‟ (p215, see also p241).
- „Resolved: We the merchants and traders of Clifden and Guardians of the Union having
heard with great regret that your honourable Board are about to stop the very beneficial
works you have been getting executed in the harbour of Clifden, we felt deeply grateful to
your Board for having initiated those works so absolutely necessary and giving employment
to a number of people. If the works should be stopped in their present unfinished state they
must under the action of the tidal wave be washed away. We would call your attention to the
labourers thrown out of employment at this idle season of the year. For these reasons we
trust your honourable Board will order the continuation of those very necessary works.
Adopted unanimously and a copy to be forwarded to the Congested Districts Board‟ (p243).
- „Resolved: That we tender to the people of Achill our deepest sympathy on the awful
calamity which has recently occurred in Westport Harbour 115 , brought death and desolation
to so many families in that improvished island, and further that we call the attention of the
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In June 1894, the first train on the Achill railway carried the bodies of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning. A boat, carrying
harvesters overturned in Clew Bay, drowning thirty-two young people. They had been going to meet the steamer which would take
them to Scotland for potato picking.
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Galway County Council - Archives „…to acquire, preserve and make accessible the documentary memory of county Galway’
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