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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
89. 7 January 1903 – 3 February 1904 Includes:
- „Mrs Mary Carroll, aunt of a child named Anne Conneely aged 7 yrs, an inmate, requested
the Guardians to allow her to adopt her, the child being an orphan…‟ (p55, see also p75 &
p471, p494, p515).
- Details of works to be carried out to workhouse, such as „kitchen – requires whitening‟, milk
store – requires repairs to roof‟ (pp141-2).
- Major Ruttledge Fair‟s report recommending the „sending out of the workhouse children to
extern schools…‟ (p143, see also p163, p251, p317).
- „That having observed with much pleasure the noble exertions of Lady Dudley in providing
nurses for the poor districts in Ireland, we feel that in no part would the assistance of a
trained nurse be more beneficial than on the Island of Bofin, and we respectfully beg to bring
the matter under the notice of Her Ladyship‟ (pp285-6).
- „That the office of schoolmistress be abolished and that the teacher be allowed yearly
superannuation of £31.8.10….‟ (p317, see also p383, p471, p493, p495)
- „Read a communication from the President and Secretaries of the Irish Workhouse
Association requesting the attendance of six delegates from the Board at a PL Conference
at Loughrea on the 8 th instant‟ (p383).
- „There are no Protestant children in the workhouse nor has there been for over 20 years,
should any come in who are not eligible to be boarded out Canon Fleming writes consenting
to their being sent to his schools‟ (p471).
- „Resolved: That as representatives of the Farmers of this Union we the Clifden BG are
anxious to see the Land Question settled in accordance with the Land Purchase Act…‟
(p473).
- „On recommendation of Dr Gorham, M.O. of the Workhouse two patients in the Infirmary
were ordered to be sent to Dublin Hospital for special surgical treatment, viz Michael
Gibbons and Michael Conneely‟ (p492).
- „Read letter received from Her Excellency Lady Dudley…forwarding cheque £18 being a
proportion of a gift made by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra on the occasion of her recent
visit to Ireland, to be distributed for the benefit of the aged and infirm and the school children
in some of the workhouses in the poorest parts of Ireland‟ (p494).
- „Miss King, late schoolmistress in the workhouse offered to board out Annie Mahony aged
13 years, next February and send her to the Clifden Convent National School, provided the
Guardians allowed yearly what sum they considered fair for clothing, she would ask nothing
for maintenance‟ (p519).
- „….Catherine Joyce of Lissoughter, aged 75 years, married, arrived here at 5¾ pm on the
12 th instant apparently in good health and died suddenly at 8¾ am on the 13 th instant…‟
(p557).
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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