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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „Stephen Moran an orphan boy 11 years of age applied for workhouse relief stating that he
wanted to be at school. The Board divided and there appeared for his admission Mr Hart and
Mr Shea, against his admission Mr Prior and Mr Bodkin. Applicant refused‟ (6 Nov 1856, p10,
see also 12 Nov 1856, p8).
- Votes taken on three applications for admission to the workhouse (6 Nov 1856, p11).
22. 3 December 1856 – 25 November 1857 Includes:
- „Read letter from M Nally, RO, stating that he had proceeded to Renvyle to enquire relative to
the deaths of the family named Walsh. He found that Coroner‟s inquests were held and that
verdicts of „died by the visitation of food‟ was given upon them. They never applied for relief
(7 Jan 1857, p9).
- „Ordered that Mr Leslie‟s tender be accepted and that he be called on to provide his Bills in
the English language, that is to say in the merchantable form‟ (29 Apr 1857, p9).
23. 2 December 1857 – 8 December 1859 Includes:
- „A woman named Peggy O‟Donnell went out on pass and did not return, she left her child, 3
years, in the workhouse‟ (13 Jan 1858, p7).
- „That Biddy Mongan, an inmate of the Workhouse infirmary called for the R.C. Chaplain on last
Thursday night, she being in a dangerous state. He (the Master) sent for Chaplain and she
then stated she wished her religion to be changed from Protestant to Roman Catholic‟ (17 Feb
1858, p7).
- „Read letter from Porter of Workhouse requesting the Board would allow him some meat, as
he is the only Officer now in the Workhouse who is not allowed meat ration.
Ordered that he get 4lbs of meat weekly‟ 17 Dec 1858, p9).
- „Ordered that the Commissioners be requested to send a Clerk from their office to close the
old Union a/cs, which it is hoped will be done in a few weeks by the aid of the Union Clerk,
who will be directed to give his undivided assistance to aid the Commissioners‟ Clerk, as the
Union is still [___] poor‟ (14 Jul 1858, p9).
- „Medical Officer reports that the clothes worn by Thomas Early (a boy who was taken out of
the Workhouse some time since by a man named Luke King) are in such a state of filth, and
dirt and vermin that they ought to be at once burned as they are dangerous to the inmates of
the workhouse. I have also to draw the attention of the Board to the miserable state this boy
came into the House, half starved, and covered with vermin from head to foot, the Board
should take steps to prosecute the person who treated the unfortunate boy in this manner‟.
„Ordered that the clothes be burned and that the Master be directed to have information sworn
in this case and the party treating the boy so cruelly prosecuted according to law‟. (28 Jul
1858, p7).
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