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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
91. 1 February 1905 – 27 September 1905 Minutes include details relating to
relief schemes, in some instances
giving names of participants. Also
includes detached lists from various Relieving Officers naming individuals in their
Electoral Districts who are in need of relief (Mar 1905), and includes:
- LGB letter enclosing „Sealed Order dated 16 th January 1905 as to the scheme proposed by
the Government to cope with exceptional distress existing in the several EDs comprised in
the Union which was unanimously rejected at last meeting‟ (p4).
- LGB „approved of Relief Scheme for Inishbofin District Electoral Division and that they have
authorised the employment from the 20 th instant of 34 workers on the North Beach Road to
Bofin Island and of the appointment of one ganger and one supervisor to act as paymaster‟
(p102b).
- Medical Officer reported „relative to the caring of a child named Thomas Geary. This child
was born in the House. He is illegitimate and his mother died in Hospital…‟ (p196).
- „The following persons on the recommendation of the Relieving Officers were approved of
for employment on relief works...‟ (p198-199, see also p212).
- „On the recommendation of Medical Officers Gorham & Loftus two patients viz :- Mary Geary
who appears to be suffering from many symptoms of ____ __ ___ ____ and Edward Geary
who suffers from ____ _____ were ordered to be sent for special treatment to Dublin
Hospital‟ (p230c).
(92.)
93. 2 May 1906 – 9 January 1907 Includes:
- „There are three patients in the Infirmary all young children viz:- Bridget Davin, Annie Conroy
and John Barrett….recommend you send these children to the Children‟s Hospital, Dublin…‟
(p52).
- „….an inmate Ellen Conneely gave birth to a male child this morning. She is a native of this
Union and unmarried and was admitted on the 18 th May 1906‟ (p116).
- „an inmate named Patrick Cummins assaulted another inmate named John McDonogh on
the 22 nd instant…‟ (p116, see also p164).
- „A patient in the Infirmary named Michael Collins, Wheelright, was brought to the Infirmary
last evening… another patient in the Hospital named Mrs Corrington….‟ (p132).
- „Read copy of a resolution passed by the Oughterard Guardians requesting that a spoken
and literary knowledge of the Irish language be a necessary qualification of all officials to be
appointed in future to positions in the [gift] of the BG District Councils and County Councils‟
(p133).
- „Read copy of a resolution passed by the Athlone Board of Guardians drawing attention of
the Government to the dangerous and widespread practice of employment of unqualified
women in attendance on midwifery case and requesting statutory powers may be obtained
through the LGB to put an immediate and effectual stop to such a highly dangerous, and in
many cases fatal, custom‟ (p207).
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’
58.