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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
From our knowledge of the extent of the destitution already existing in the Union we estimate
that £20,000…will be required to enable the people to tide over the distress for the next six
months‟ (p87, see also p139).
- Report from Dr Gorham regarding the hospital conditions and also recommends a complete
system of drainage for the workhouse (pp141-2).
- „Resolved: The Guardians desire to say in reply to the LGB that they have already held
meetings of the several Dispensary Committees and suggested works in the several
electoral divisions, gangers, supervisors and the probable numbers in each Dispensary
District that would be entitled to the labour test…‟ (pp164-5).
- List of names of people approved of „as entitled to receive relief on the works now opened...‟
(p269)
- Inmate William Davis, 26 years, absconded (p423).
- LGB „Authorising the Guardians to administer relief out of the workhouse to such destitute
persons as they may consider require it whether in occupation of land or not, for a further
period of two months from the 29 th inst‟ (p659).
- „Resolved: That the Clerk of the Union be directed to write to Mr Perry, County Surveyor, for
all bills in connection with the making of a sewer in the town of Clifden, the items of material,
etc. to be got and from who supplied‟ (p671).
84. 8 June 1898 – 2 January 1899 Includes:
- „That in families where there is long continued sickness and that have one employed on the
Relief Works, the privilege of having wages extended from s 5/- to s 8/- a week be extended
also, in the case of long continued sickness, even though the family have not the numbers
required in all other cases‟ (p9).
- „That the two deaf mutes Mary Conneely, aged 14, Errislanan ED, and John Conroy, aged
10 years, chargeable to Knockboy E.D. now inmates of the workhouse be sent to Cabra
Institution, Dublin, and that the schoolmistress go in charge of the children, her expenses to
be paid‟ (p64).
- „Miss King, Schoolmistress. reported Bridget Mannion, wards woman for abusive
language...‟ (p137).
- „Referring to the price of s 2/10 per stone proposed to be charged for the spraying mixture (for
potatoes) stating that they understand that the Midland G. Western Railway are carrying the
spraying machine and materials free of charge this year.
The LGB must be under a mistake, as this Board has already paid the MGWR Co. the sum
of £7.5.9 for the carriage of the mixture and there is a further sum still due‟ (p147, see also
p204 & p560).
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’
47.