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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- Query regarding the chargeability of Peter Nee, his wife and family (f198, see also f215).
- Minute regarding the registered religion of inmate Michael Walsh [aged 12 years] (f215, see
also ff225-226 and f235).
- „Resolved that the Board of Guardians of this Union respectfully call the attention of the
Commissioners to the present distress now prevailing in this Union, almost bordering on
famine, with a view that the Government would take some steps to alleviate it as the
Guardians feel they will not be able to cope with the distress now existing‟ (f236).
- Minute regarding chargeability of inmate Bartley Walsh (f247, see also GPL£/36, f5).
- „Resolved that the attention of Government be called to the great benefit that would be derived
from making a tramway from Galway to Clifden by which considerable employment could now
be given to the poor labouring classes who are in a most wretchedly distressed state as the
government is now aware…‟ (f256).
36. 22 May 1867 – 11 December 1867 Includes:
- „Ellen Kirwan, 2 yrs of age, went through the window of the girls‟ schoolroom. Master sent
after her and brought her back‟ (f4).
- „John Joyce, 11 yrs, and Pat Conneely,12 yrs, went through the windows…‟ (f4).
- „Rose Martin burned form on the 18 th last. Master had her taken down and would have her
locked up but she took a fit‟ (f4).
- „May Glinne and Anne Conneely were fighting on the 18 th ...‟ (f4).
- Includes report from the Relieving Officer on Inishbofin (ff6-7) and subsequent reports on
Bofin & Shark which advised, „I have also visited the island of Shark and found no cases of
sickness in it. There were a good many able-bodied people applied to me for relief. I gave
them provisional tickets of admission to the workhouse and offered them a conveyance which
they also refused to avail themselves of‟ (f26).
- Catherine Finnegan and Kitty Lydon town inmates… (f154).
- Includes the names of able-bodied inmates discharged, Mary O‟Loughin, Kitty O‟Brien,
Joseph O‟Donnell and Thomas King (f196).
- Query regarding the chargeability of inmate James Murray, his wife Mary aged 30 and
children, Mary, Anne and Catherine aged 7, 4 and 11 years (f215), who had been in Scotland
for a period of time.
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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