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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
94. 9 January 1907 – 28 August 1907 Includes:
- „Resolved: Observing the increased number of applications for outdoor relief and though the
Board see the necessity for same owing to the want of employment in the District together
with the failure of the potato crop. The high rating prevents us from relieving the poor as we
should like to.
We therefore request the Government will come to our assistance by starting relief works in
the District or to proceed with the erection of the pier at Doughbeg so long promised‟ (pp111-
112).
- Report from the Medical Officer advised that „Michael Mulkern died on yesterday as the result
of dangerous injuries received at Marconi‟s works. The funeral expenses, coffin etc are I
understand to be borne by the Company. I would strongly recommend that a few coffins be
always kept in stock, so as to avoid the necessity of keeping a deceased patient longer than
absolutely necessary in the wards where patients are treated…‟ (p250)
- “I have visited the whole place in company of the Master. I am astonished to see the house
clean, tidy etc, comfortable. Thousand thanks for the kindness of the Master”, A Charpentier,
Paris.
The Guardians are much pleased with this report‟ (p529).
95. 11 September 1907 – 24 June 1908 Includes:
- „Resolved: That we propose a vote of thanks to the Right Rev Monsignor W Alpine P.P. V.G
nominee of His Grace the Archbishop, and Rev Father Kelly as the nominated witness of our
Board, at the Royal Commission on congestion for the very brilliant and judicious evidence
given by them before that Body in the interest of all classes in Connemara and Connaught
generally, and we hope that full weight will be given to the proposed solution in the finding of
the Commission‟ (p22, see also p38 which includes letter of thanks from J. Healy,
Archbishop of Tuam).
- „Resolved: That the attention of the Galway County Council be again called to the fact that
exceptional distress exists in this Union and that the said County Council be requested to
take the necessary steps to apply to the LGB to have the 13 th Section (of Local Government
Act) put in force‟ (p262b).
- LGB ‟....letter received from an inmate of the Workhouse named Patrick Toole, relative to the
conduct of the Master and requesting the Guardians to be so good as to inquire into the
matter and furnish the Board with their observations‟ (p277, see also p293).
- LGB „In reply to the Guardians‟ resolution of the 25 th inst., in regard to the existence of
exceptional distress in the Union, stating that the Unemployed Fund is not available for the
relief of distress among occupiers of land in Rural Districts. Moreover the portion of this Fund
which was at the Board‟s disposal has now been distributed‟ (p277).
- Medical Officer recommended that two patients, Colman Lydon and Pat Cannon, be sent to
Galway Hospital for treatment‟ (p310b).
- „Resolved: That in consideration of poor in our workhouse, aged 70 years & over, and
having fully considered how Mr Asquith‟s old age pension scheme affects [ ] to the fact that
they are in receipt of Poor Law relief, and knowing as we do the deep rooted prejudice
existing amongst the poor against the workhouse, and that they would rather live in their own
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’
59.