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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
80. 8 April 1896 – 7 October 1896 Includes:
- „The Master reported that Michael Laffey an inmate refuses to comply with the workhouse
rules and persists in disobeying his orders‟ (p51, see also p95-7, p249, p405, p469, see also
GPL3/81, such as p229, p245, p283).
- „On report of the Acting Master (Cloonan) it was resolved that the Relieving Officer
prosecute Daniel Burke, a stonemason, for deserting his two sons, now inmates of the
workhouse‟ (p73).
- „Mr Cloonan (Acting Master) having been called before the Board states that he can produce
no certificate of his age but what he has already produced which, Canon Lynskey states is
not a true copy of the entry in the Baptismal Register; that the entry is the record of a
different person and that Canon Lynskey withdrew that Certificate by direct observation on
the 19 th April to Mr Cloonan and further by letter to LGB dated 19 th of April 1896‟ (p119, see
also p163).
- „Read notice of eviction at the suit of John J Eyre against Francis Davis and Tom Faherty of
Aughrismore (Aughrus More), also at the suit of Anthony John Norris and Le Baron Henri
D‟Ivaley against John Davis, Michael Davis and Joseph Davis of Aughrismore, also Morton
[Frivan] against Judy Laffey‟ (p164).
- „That the Clerk pay Dr Gorham the sum of £1.14.0 for the conveyance of Mary Scuffle of
Inishbofin, an inmate of the House, to St Mark‟s Hospital, Dublin and back‟ (p168).
- „Resolved: That having read the comments of the Editor of the “Galway Observer” relative to
the members of this Board at their meeting on the 10 th instant. It is resolved that in future
none of the printing business of this Board be given to the Observer paper‟ (p229).
- „From the Master: With reference to the order made by the Guardians on the 17 th instant
discharging an inmate named Pat Little, etc‟ (p249, see also p250).
- „Instructions to be given to Mr Perry, C.S. (County Surveyor), Galway to prepare an estimate
of the probable cost of having all the defective sewers in the town made perfect‟ (p259).
- Ardbear Cemetery: „That tenders be invited from competent persons for the purpose of
laying out the entire cemetery in proper sections with five or more walls leading at right
angles from the old avenue; and preparing a reference map showing the grave spaces
numbered consecutively in sections for the information of the Guardians and also for the
supplying an estimate of the cost of repairing the existing boundary wall of the cemetery‟
(p281, see also p325).
- Inmate Michael Nee, classed as a lunatic, „assaulted another inmate by striking him with a
spade this morning…‟ (p293).
- Report following death of July Folan who was „suffering from “persistent anaemia” and died
from exhaustion caused by that disease. In my (Gorham, Medical Officer) opinion her death
was not due or accelerated by want of sufficient nourishment‟ (p316).
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’
43.