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Actions	Clifden Poor Law Union Remove from selection Add to selection TitleClifden Poor Law Union RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceGPL3 Date1849 - 1921 (with gaps) Creator Clifden Poor Law Union Production date 1849 - 1921 Scope and Content This collection consists of Board of Guardian Minute books (85) with gaps, a Damp press copy letter book (which can be difficult to decipher), a Diet book and two volumes of Incoming letter books. Overall this collection illustrates various aspects of Union administration, and reveals to some extent how the authority cared for and provided assistance to the destitute poor in the district and in particular how it responded in times of crisis. It also shows the evolution of the Board’s provision of health and related social services. The collection commences with records created when the authority and country were under British rule and concludes with records recording the authority’s recognition of Dáil Éireann. The collection should be of interest to administrative, economic, political, and social historians. In particular, it should be a major source of information for local historians. The collection has been digitised and is available on our Digital Archive @ http://www.galway.ie/digitalarchives Extent89 volumes Physical descriptionSeveral of the earlier volumes have suffered severe mould damage, with resultant loss of substantial qualities of text, and thus rendering other sections illegible. LanguageEnglish Persons keyword Clifden Poor Law Union SubjectWorkhouses, Famines, Living conditions, Emigration, Administration, Hygiene, Poor Law, Poor Law boards of guardians Conditions governing accessAccess is available online at http://www.galway.ie/DigitalArchives or on microfilm by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives. Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Digital referencesCollection available online Access URL Here Levelfonds Hierarchy browser GPL3 Clifden Poor Law Union 1849 - 1921 (with gaps)fonds contains 5 parts

TitleClifden Poor Law Union

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceGPL3

Date1849 - 1921 (with gaps)

Production date 1849 - 1921

Scope and Content

This collection consists of Board of Guardian Minute books (85) with gaps, a Damp press copy letter book (which can be difficult to decipher), a Diet book and two volumes of Incoming letter books.

Overall this collection illustrates various aspects of Union administration, and reveals to some extent how the authority cared for and provided assistance to the destitute poor in the district and in particular how it responded in times of crisis. It also shows the evolution of the Board’s provision of health and related social services. The collection commences with records created when the authority and country were under British rule and concludes with records recording the authority’s recognition of Dáil Éireann.

The collection should be of interest to administrative, economic, political, and social historians. In particular, it should be a major source of information for local historians.

The collection has been digitised and is available on our Digital Archive @
http://www.galway.ie/digitalarchives

Extent89 volumes

Physical descriptionSeveral of the earlier volumes have suffered severe mould damage, with resultant loss of substantial qualities of text, and thus rendering other sections illegible.

LanguageEnglish

Persons keyword Clifden Poor Law Union

SubjectWorkhouses, Famines, Living conditions, Emigration, Administration, Hygiene, Poor Law, Poor Law boards of guardians

Conditions governing accessAccess is available online at http://www.galway.ie/DigitalArchives or on microfilm by appointment. Unrestricted access.
The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives.

Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access.

Digital referencesCollection available online Access URL Here

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