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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
67. 27 February 1889 - 4 September 1889 Includes:
- Details of tenders accepted for the supply of various articles and services from local
businesses to the Union, together with details of the cost of same, such as from Mrs King,
calico at 3 ½d per yard, and from Pat Flaherty coffins at 1 shilling each (p105).
- „….report from their Inspector Doctor Power in which he states that the pump in the village of
Roundstone is out of order and that the well is exposed to pollution from surface water‟ (p120).
- „Pursuant to notice of motion, that three pumps be erected in the Town of Clifden, the area of
taxation to be Clifden Dispensary District, plans and specifications to be prepared and forward
to LGB for approval with a request that they sanction a loan from the Board of Public Works for
amount of estimated cost‟ (pp153-154, see also p185).
- LGB advising that they had „referred to them from the Chief Secretary‟s Office communications
respecting two children named Peter Little and Peter Joyce 113 who had been inmates of the
workhouse and who were on the 16 th ult. brought before the magistrates and committed to the
Letterfrack Industrial School for having been found begging, and requesting the Guardians to
cause careful inquiry to be made into the circumstances of each case and furnish the Board
with their observations thereon‟ (p185, see also pp201-202, p264, pp280-81 & p297).
- Minutes of first meeting of Clifden Dispensary Committee (p192).
- „Resolved…beg to tender our most grateful thanks to the Right Honourable Sir Michael Hicks
Beach 114 for the active part he has taken in having the Railway Bill passed through Committee
of the House of Commons…‟ (p425).
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69. 30 April 1890 – 26 January 1891 Includes:
- „That it is most essential to the public health to construct waterworks in the town of Clifden….
That an experienced Engineer be employed to prepare an estimate for the Guardians of the
total cost of reservoirs, of channel, of pipes, of laying down same, of fencing, of damage or
injury to land or of acquiring land, the cost of four fountains in the Town, etc…‟ (30 Apr 1890).
- „Resolved in pursuance of notice of motion that taking into consideration the long and faithful
services of our efficient Clerk (Mr Burke) for over 30 years, and the fact that he has paid an
assistant out of his salary for the past 15 years, and that the duties of his office are fairly
increasing we consider it would be materially to the interest of the Union to have a permanent
assistant appointed at a remuneration of £1 per week, by so doing we will be securing the
services of Mr Burke for more years to come as our Clerk, and the further consideration that it
is absolutely necessary that an assistant should be appointed in connection with the Seed
Rate, a matter of vital importance to the Union, otherwise that Mr Burke‟s salary be increased
113
Reported to be the „illegitimate son of a woman named Margaret Griffin’, both were admitted to the workhouse in 1884 (GPL3/67,
pp280-281).
114
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn PC, PC (Ire) (23 October 1837 – 30 April 1916), known as Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, Bt, from 1854 to 1906 and subsequently as The Viscount St Aldwyn to 1915, was a British Conservative politician. Known
as "Black Michael", he notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902.
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Galway County Council - Archives „…to acquire, preserve and make accessible the documentary memory of county Galway’
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