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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „The Clerk stated that the arrears uncollected by the former Board of Guardians amounted to
£263.10.0 and that these arrears were transferred to the County Council, and included in the
recent collection of rates under the warrants issued by them, and that a sum of £289.6.8 was
lodged to the credit of the Co. Co. under the head of a “Suspense A/C” in the National Bank,
Clifden, but as against these sums a sum of £73.1.10 was required to square the balance of
unpaid bills due by the former Board to and 25 th March last….‟ (p194).
- „Resolved: That Home Rule should now be the order of the day… ‟(p195).
- Tenders for supplies to the workhouse, detailing name of supplier, item and price (p276b).
- Thomas Lydon, R.O., advised that the „expenditure for the outdoor relief in my district is
£17.7.0…‟ (p362).
- Letter from Bridget Riely, of Church Street, Clifden, wife of John, regarding her „hardship‟,
both her husband and daughter Molly are „suffering in addition to their disease from extreme
want of nourishment & want of attendance…‟ (p364b-c).
- „Transcript of letter from Mary Walsh, „There is a little girl, Ellen Burke (daughter of the late
Michael Burke), in the Workhouse. I take an interest in the child as a sister of hers now in
America was a long time in my service and gave entire satisfaction. If you let me have the
child I will undertake to support her and have her sent to school in accordance with the wish
of her sister‟ (p422).
- „…James Joyce of Emlaghdauroe has a child 3 years old who suffers from infantile paralysis
and dumbness which requires special treatment in a children‟s hospital…‟ (p423).
- „On the recommendation of the Medical Officer that an inmate named Michael Conneely be
sent to the Galway Hospital…‟ (p468).
- M.O. recommended that „Bridget O‟Brien, aged 10 years, a very serious case of Pott‟s spinal
curvature…be sent for special surgical treatment…‟ (p469).
- Pat Molloy entered workhouse „in a dying state…‟ (p490).
- Report on death of inmate, Michael Toole, aged 70 years (p578).
- Report of death of inmate Thomas Somers (p583).
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’
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