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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
public house to public house to the scandal of the people, and to the discredit of a public
institution, should this continue….‟ (p344).
- „That we, the members of the Clifden District Council and Board of Guardians welcome the
Home Rule Bill and congratulate Mr John E. Redmond and the Irish Party on their success in
having a measure introduced acceptable to the Irish race at home and abroad‟ (p466).
99. 12 June 1912 – 28 May 1913 Includes:
- LGB letter „relative to the proposal to board-out a child named Samuel McDonagh, etc.
Certificate of the Chaplain sent herewith. The child was admitted to the Workhouse on the
7 th April 1910‟ (p265, see also p286).
- „On the recommendation and certificate of the M.O a patient named Winifred Heavey who
has been in the Hospital for nearly two weeks, suffering from an enormously enlarged
tonsils, was sent to Galway Hospital for treatment‟ (pp265-6).
- „Ordered: That a deaf and dumb mute named Annie Coyne, 8 yrs, be sent to Cabra
Institution, Dublin, on the usual terms, £15 a year, and £1 for an outfit‟ (p266).
- „Resolved: That this our first meeting since the death of Major Robert Ruttleledge Fair, LG
Inspector who was permanently in charge of this Union for over 22 years desire to place on
record our sincere regret….‟ (pp285-6).
- „Resolved: That in consequence of the death and burial this day of Dr Anthony Gorham,
Glen [Trasna] Clifden, Deputy Inspector General Royal Navy, and as a token of respect to
his memory no business be transacted and that we desire to convey to the families of the
deceased our sincere sympathy and condolence in this sad bereavement‟ (p325).
- „Re: Overcrowding at Ballinasloe Asylum….the (Visiting) Committee after visiting the several
wards in the Workhouse have come to the conclusion that about 150 of the harmless
inmates at the Asylum could be accommodated in the main building at present occupied by
50 old but healthy inmates who could easily be transferred to the front range of the (Clifden)
workhouse now unoccupied…‟ (p383).
100. 11 June 1913 – 10 June 1914 Includes:
- „Read letter received from the Department of State Washington replying to the resolution of
the Guardians on the 28 th May last, relative to the deportation of Michael Faherty by the
Immigration Officials of the Country, which has been referred to the Department of Labour‟
(p25).
- LGB letter „Respecting the proposed employment of Dr F Norman Hitchcock as temporary
MO of the Renvyle Dispensary district during the absence of Mr MacDonnell on vacation etc
approving of the arrangements‟ (p179).
- „That Doctor Loftus, who has resigned the Medical Officership of the Roundstone No. 1
Dispensary District, be now appointed temporary M.O. of the Clifden No. 2 (Inishbofin)
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’
63.