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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
40. 3 November 1869 – 22 June 1870 Includes:-
- „…the Board resolved to allocate £5 towards the maintenance of the Deaf Mute Anne Clancy
the parents having undertaken to pay £2.10.0 towards the expense for current half year at the
Cabra Institution‟ (f85).
- „That Matthew [Shanley] be discharged from the workhouse, Martin Coyne having taken him to
his service and that he get a suit of clothing having out-grown his own‟ (f94).
- Extract of letter regarding the „deplorable conditions of the population of these Islands, namely
Bofin and Shark‟ (f165).
41. 6 July 1870 – 22 March 1871 Includes:
- „Resolved that in reply to the Commissioners‟ letter of 17 th inst No. 250 on the subject of the
appointment of a “Poor Law Union apothecary” for all Ireland we reiterate the views held by the
Board on this day week via that the course pursued by the PLC on the appointment of such an
officer will be of the deepest importance and is calculated to do invaluable services both to the
sick poor and the ratepayer generally and we sincerely hope the PLC will by all means carry
out the project and give it a fair trial‟ (f164).
42. 5 April 1871 – 27 December 1871
43. 3 January 1872 – 2 October 1872
44. 30 October 1872 – 9 July 1873 Includes:
- „That deep distress, arising from want of fuel and food, prevails at present throughout the
district of Connemara, that as residents we can state without the slightest fear of contradiction,
we have no hesitation in stating that there, is not one tenth the quantity of potatoes to be found
that was last year, and that even this small portion from its not having come the maturity, is
believed to be unfit for seed.
That the corn, from the long continued rains, is utterly useless for seed or food, and that from a
like reason there is an utter dearth of fuel.
That we therefore deem it our duty to earnestly call the attention of the Government to the
serious state of things, with the view of them devising some adequate means of relief for the
people by opening some source of employment, as all local efforts would be ineffectual‟
(pp149-150).
- ‟Resolved that Dr Brodie having drawn the Board‟s attention to the Local Government Board‟s
letter no. 7294 “relative to the destitution arising from want of fuel”, the Board beg to state that
no local effort has been made by the gentry in this country for the alleviation of the distress now
existing here as stated in the resolution of 29 th January 1873‟ (p189).
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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