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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
procure clothes for them in order to enable the Master to discharge them at once, the
greater portion of which were admitted as scholars and being a long time in the House
their own clothes would not fit them‟ (p188).
- Report from the Medical Officer regarding the conditions of the inmates and requests the
Board of Guardians to remedy same, advising „…that no time should be lost in putting the
House in proper order and placing the paupers in such a position as to best enable them
to resist disease but especially that pestilence (cholera) which is making rapid strides
towards our Union...‟ (p267).
- PLC Commissioners „Recommending the Guardians to cause active legal proceedings to
be taken for the recovery of the rates for which Mr Crawford was collector and if necessary
to avail themselves of the best professional assistance which they can obtain to effect the
payment of the rates without further delay‟ (p431).
19. 14 June 1854 – 6 December 1854 Includes:-
- Report from the Visiting Committee stating it „was most gratified at the general appearance
of the entire establishment as well as with the Lunatics, who appeared to be most orderly,
the Master and other Officers were in their respective places‟ (p226).
- „Resolved that with relation to the letter on the subject of the emigration of Annie Ryne and
her children whose husband is now a convict in Australia.
The attention of the Commissioners be called to the matter, and that they be requested to
assist the Board in funds for the purposes of forwarding the party to the port of
embarkation from which port their expenses are to be paid‟ (p291).
- PLC reply „...that they have no fund applicable to the purpose of assisting the family in
question to emigrate, etc‟ (p309).
- „…a report was made to him (Relieving Officer) that a man was found dead on the morning
of Monday last on the old road near Kylemore Lake.
He learned the particulars of the case and found that he was a single man of about 25
years of age, named Patrick Burke, a native of Ballinakill, a lunatic…‟ (p389).
- „Letter from Mr Burke Workhouse Master stating it was with pain that a sense of public
duty compelled me to report to you the improper conduct of Mr P Collins, which report has
been since his removal from office fully borne out as you are aware.
He never did keep my books but assisted with them until I found some errors in the
accounts made out by him to which I called the attention of Mr Smith Clerk of the Union,
who desired me not to permit Mr Collins to interfere with the account in future, since then
he frequently requested to be allowed to assist with the Books but I at all times refused‟
(pp408-409).
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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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