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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „Approving of the proposed payment of a sum of seventy pounds to the Clerk of the Union in
consideration of the extra duties devolving on him in connection with the Relief Works‟
(p242).
- Due to the financial condition of the Union, the LGB decided to „make a further grant of £500
to the distressed divisions of the Union to be apportioned among the highly rated divisions in
the following manner…‟ (p243).
- „That an inmate named Martin Coyne against whom Mr O‟Hara, PLG made some complaints
a few Board meetings ago be allowed out while he conducts himself as a messenger, there
being no other inmate in the House found suitable for this post‟ (p449).
- Letter from Dr Loftus, Roundstone, advising of the „absolute necessity‟ for a Dispensary
House (p459).
- There are several tenders in connection with the repairs and improvements of the
workhouse buildings submitted, which were referred to Mr Perry, the Guardians‟ Engineer,
who was specially in attendance…
Resolved: That Thomas W Little of 12 Harcourt St., Dublin, be declared Contractor for the
Drainage of £188.19.10 and for the Sanitary plumbing and cooking at £356.4.0. Total
amount of Mr Little‟s contract £545.3.10‟ (p555).
- „Resolved that Mr Thomas Mc Williams of Clifden be declared contractor for the
improvements in the Infirmary Dining Hall and structural improvements of the laundry and
other parts of the workhouse building for the sum of £495‟ (p555).
85. 9 January 1899 – 30 August 1899 Incorporates the minutes of Clifden Rural District
Council from its first meeting on 15 April 1899 to
16 August 1899. Also includes Alex Thom & Co.
Ltd. Catalogues of Stationery for Poor Law Unions & Rural District Councils, details
type of forms and volumes available and cost, such as ‘Blank Minute Book, with index,
9 inches by 13, 5 quire, cloth, leather back, lettered 30.4.0’.
Includes details relating to the establishment of the Clifden Rural District Council and
procedures for the transfer of some functions to it 118 . Also includes:-
- „That the storm of the past week has done very much damage to the House, about 20 feet of
the eave-slates of the main building being swept away, etc.‟ (p29, see also p207).
- LGB letter stating „that they expect the Clerks of Unions, Poor Rate collectors, and other
officers to give every assistance and information in their power to Returning Officers, etc. in
connection with the forthcoming elections of County and Rural District Councillors‟ (p96).
118
See for example pp140-1 & pp162-4
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’
48.