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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „Mr Conry has offered a boy named Bartley McDona (McDonagh) 7 shillings per quarter,
should the Board grant him a suit of clothes‟ (p287).
- Letter from the Sanitary Sub-Officer [Geoghegan] advising that „Festy McDonnell…was fined
at Letterfrack on the 2 nd inst for refusing to comply with a Justice‟s Order to remove his child
to hospital who was suffering from infectious disease…‟ (p319).
- „Inishbofin Medical Officer [Fox] advised the Board that „…Honor Cunnane a homeless
destitute un-befriended creature met her death on Nov 27 th from the indirect cause of actual
want and deprivation. There being no one to take her to the Infirmary, no one to get her relief,
she lay on the cold ground for weeks and died the subject of unprotected inhumanity and
sheer neglect…‟ (pp328-329).
- „Inishbofin Medical Officer (Fox) advised the Board that „…There are destitute persons on the
Island at present, a creature named Bridget Cunnane has for some time back been suffering
from lunacy, and it is necessary to have her removed to an asylum. There is a very urgent
want of main sewers in all the villages here, there are 14 families at present suffering from
Marsh fever, at the time I applied for the appointment which I now hold it was advertised that
the appointment was worth £100 per annum as medical officer and £10 per annum as
Sanitary Officer. I was paid last quarter only at the rate of £100 a year and a remittance for
the remainder will much oblige‟ (p449, see also pp469-470).
- „Master reports that hospital Nurse informed him that William Conneely, a patient in hospital
registered as a Protestant, requested the services of R.C. Chaplain, he being very weak
Master had his request complied with.
William Conneely died on the 1 st inst.‟ (2 Apr 1879, p487).
51. 23 April 1879 – 4 February 1880 CLOSED due to fragile condition. Includes:
- „That the Board are satisfied that great distress prevails in this Union owing to a succession of
bad harvests, the depreciated value of stock and of all agricultural and pastoral produce as
well as every other class of industry but more especially to the almost entire loss of this year‟s
crop and fear from the long continued rains and fearing that many of the small farmers and
working classes may be reduced to a state of absolute want during the winter, feel it their
bounden duty to bring the state or condition of the country under the notice of the
Government‟ and call on it to introduce some form of public works programme. Writing that
„We think, moreover, there is a wide field of operations in Connemara in the direction we have
pointed out. Its trackless waste of mountain and bog…..the harbours and the construction of a
cheap line of railway between Galway and Clifden beside the unfinished relief road of 1847 all
of which are works of public utility and we think the time is most favourable for giving effect to
a scheme which would be found to prove beneficial to the county and the state…‟ (pp315-17).
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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