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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
52. 11 February 1880 – 11 August 1880 Includes:
- „That we consider a tramway from Galway to Clifden would supply neither speed nor power
and that its cost would be a mere waste of money. We are further of opinion that a well
considered light railway would alone be adequate to the present traffic and the increasing
requirements of the District, we have every confidence in Captain Alfred Ernest Acheson
through whose energies the Galway and Salt Hill tramway has been constructed and we
pledge ourselves to assist him in his endeavours to get a Railway construction from Galway
to Clifden.
We believe that without such a work distress and partial famine will be of periodical
occurrence here and we are convinced that compared with the benefits which would accrue to
this District from a Railway all other measures are mere palliatives and we confirm the
Resolution passed at the two meetings held at Clifden on the 5 th and 10 th inst in support of a
Railway from Galway to Clifden‟ (ff5-6).
- „The Relieving Officer got a supply of Indian and oatmeal and rice in December last and made
no application for a further supply until yesterday there are two shops on the Island to supply
on his order, he is not expected to do more than look after the supply on its way to the island‟
(f25).
- „…they have purchased the seed at as cheap a rate in accordance with the terms of the
account as possible but in as much as the numbers in column 3 of it considered considerably
below the actual number of occupiers the Guardians are inclined to consider that the amount
allocated to each electoral division is not excessive‟ (f115).
- „Ordered that half the passage money be given to Martin Conneely‟s wife and 3 children
(amounting to six pounds) to America the other half being guaranteed by Mr A J. Morris,
subject to the LGB‟s approval‟ (ff135-136).
- „Ordered that half of the passage money be given to Mr Henry Murray and seven children
(amount to £14.14.0) to America, the other half being guaranteed by Mr Edward Kendall,
subject to LG approval‟ (f178, see also f186).
- The Board advised the LGB „That there is a great and continued want of employment in the
said Union and consequent distress….
And the Board do hereby recommend to the Government Board to recommend to the Lord
Lieutenant to convene an Extraordinary Meeting of Baronial Sessions to present for the works
specified in the aforesaid statement for the employment of the poor …‟ (f185, see also f235).
- „That half the passage money be given to Mrs Pat Folan and five children…and half the
passage money be given to Mrs Sally Keady and also one child…‟ (ff206-8, see also f215 &
f235).
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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