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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „Very Rev. P. Lynskey, R.C. Chaplain, reports “Visited hospital, l have to express my regret
that I found a disreputable woman in the male ward. I desire to call the attention of the
Board of Guardians to this ugly fact”.
The Master explained that the woman referred to was employed as an assistant in the
Hospital, that she is the mother of one illegitimate child and an inmate of the workhouse for
the past two years.
Ordered: The Board consider it highly objectionable to have the woman referred to in the
Chaplain‟s report found in the male ward. The Board order the discontinuance of the
employment of such woman in connection with the male ward and as far as is practicable
that male attendants should be employed‟ (p127).
60. 8 April 1885 – 14 October 1885 Includes:
- „Resolved. That we the Guardians of the Clifden Union have heard that Mrs Caroline Blake,
guardian to the Blake minors has carried on some evictions on the Renvyle Estate without
giving the Relieving Officer notice of said evictions 112 , that we the Board express our
disapproval of such proceedings and that we require an explanation on this day week from
Mrs Blake as to such proceedings, otherwise we shall order our Solicitor to include
proceedings against her in this matter and that Mrs Blake be sent a copy of this Resolution‟
(p51, see also p68 & p149).
- Transcript of letter from John P Nolan, M.P., regarding his election as Chairman of the
Board, and advising that „I greatly regret that the fact of my residence being in another part
of the county will preclude me from attending the Board as often as I would desire, but I feel
that the Board is quite safe in the hands of the able Vice Chairman & Deputy Vice Chairman
whom the Board have selected. I need hardly say that any service which it may be possible
in the House of Commons to render the Union I shall be most happy to discharge as it will
be now doubly my duty to do anything in my power for the Clifden Union‟ (p52, see also
p90).
- „Resolved: That this Board is of opinion that it is desirable in the public interest and on
economical grounds that the Oughterard Union continues to exist as a separate and distinct
Union‟ (p189, see also p408, & GPL3/61, p368).
- „Ordered that the chargeability of Michael Lydon an inmate be changed from Union at large
to Renvyle Electoral Division‟ (p350).
- „Ordered that Michael Lydon be discharged from the House he being offered one pound per
quarter wages‟ (p350).
- LG Inspector „….reports the financial condition of the Union as most unsatisfactory and
requesting the Guardians to take immediate action to relieve the Union from its
embarrassed financial condition‟ (p508).
112 Eviction of John Joyce & J. Malley (GPL3/60, p149)
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