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

Clifden Poor Law Union
Non-Disclosure Requirement
As much of the information in this collection clearly identifies families and individuals
researchers are required, in order to prevent possible distress or embarrassment to near
descendants, to sign a non-disclosure form prior to consulting the records giving an
undertaking not to disclose or cite specific names from these archives in research work.
Archival History
The collection has been in the custody of Galway County Libraries for several years. A 1928
minute in the Board of Health & Public Assistance records „Clifden Books and Records –
Secretary reported that since last meeting he visited Clifden with an ambulance and brought
back to Galway some of the more recent books and records. The Boardroom and Clerk’s
office in the Clifden Workhouse ware absolutely full of books, papers, etc., many of which are
useless, and there is also some furniture in the place. The County Council have decided to
retain the same for use in their own offices. It will take a lorry or two to remove the furniture
and books, but where the latter are to be stored is a problem.
Order: The Secretary, or a member of his staff, to visit Clifden as soon as convenient and
arrange for the transfer of the furniture and goods to Galway, but any useless documents of
unbound records which are no longer required to be destroyed‟ 16 (28 September, 1927, p10).
A late minute, of 1929, records that the Assistant County Surveyor was asked to ‘…arrange
to have all the books, etc., packed in boxes and removed (from the disused workhouse) to
the old Galway Hospital’. 17
The collection was microfilmed in 2012; volumes GPL3/14 to 57 by DPA, Dublin in early
2012. The remainder, in late 2012 by Mallon Technology of Cookstown, Co. Tyrone.
Volumes GPL3/10 and GPL3/58 onwards were first digitised, and then converted to
microfilm. Mallon also digitised the microfilm produced by DPA. Therefore the collection is
available in both a digitised and microfilm format.
Patria McWalter
Archivist, 2012
16 County Galway Board of Health & Public Assistance, Minute Book, GC5/5 p10
17 County Galway Board of Health & Public Assistance, Minute Book, GC5/8, p20
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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