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Actions	Clifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1891 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleClifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1891 RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceGPL3/70 Date28 January 1891 - 22 July 1891 Creator Clifden Poor Law Union Production date 1891-01-28 - 1891-07-22 Scope and Content Includes details relating to the purchase, shipping, inspection & distribution of seed potatoes, also to relief works and the out-door relief, and also:- -Details and reference to relief works (p32c) including transcript of a letter from R. Atterson Blake to the BG regarding relief works in Selerna advising that ‘A considerable number gathered on the occasion of the intended opening of the works to manifest their destitution and want. They clamoured for food and because they felt the [pang] of hunger as much as those who were directed to put on the works there were no relief works at all engaged in, and thus that time there was no effort to relieve the famine of the people who were then recognised by the Government to be in want, nor to bring relief to those who then complained so bitterly and so loudly. This Electoral Division is undoubtedly the poorest in the Clifden Union. It is rated higher than any other Electoral Division in said Union. There are only 29 ratepayers in the Division while at this moment there are 251 persons on out-door-relief’ (p410d). -‘Resolved: That in consequence of no boats being on the Island of Omey the poor people employed on the Relief Works now opened in Silerna Division suffer much having to wade their way through the tide sometimes at the risk of their lives and sometimes will be altogether unable to attend owing to the fact that there is not a boat on the Island, in which there are 29 families. The best way that these poor miserable people can be relieved is to supply them with a few boats and open some works on the Island’ (p72). - ‘We the Guardians….entering on our duties for the years 1891 & 1892 find the monetary affairs of the Union in such an embarrassed state with such extreme distress existing in the Union all classes more or less affected by it that we feel it our bounden duty to bring the matter under the notice of the Government and seek its assistance to enable us to extricate the Union from its financial difficulties…’ (p290). Extentc. 520pp Physical descriptionBound volume LanguageEnglish SubjectRailways Conditions governing accessAvailable 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 referencesDigitised in 2012 and available online at Access URL Here LevelItem Hierarchy browser GPL3 Clifden Poor Law Union 1849 - 1921 (with gaps)fonds contains 5 parts GPL3/ 1 - 107 Clifden Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes 1849 - 1921 (with gaps)series contains 97 parts GPL3/70 Clifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1891 28 January 1891 - 22 July 1891Item

TitleClifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1891

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceGPL3/70

Date28 January 1891 - 22 July 1891

Production date 1891-01-28 - 1891-07-22

Scope and Content

Includes details relating to the purchase, shipping, inspection & distribution of seed potatoes, also to relief works and the out-door relief, and also:-

-Details and reference to relief works (p32c) including transcript of a letter from R. Atterson Blake to the BG regarding relief works in Selerna advising that ‘A considerable number gathered on the occasion of the intended opening of the works to manifest their destitution and want. They clamoured for food and because they felt the [pang] of hunger as much as those who were directed to put on the works there were no relief works at all engaged in, and thus that time there was no effort to relieve the famine of the people who were then recognised by the Government to be in want, nor to bring relief to those who then complained so bitterly and so loudly. This Electoral Division is undoubtedly the poorest in the Clifden Union. It is rated higher than any other Electoral Division in said Union. There are only 29 ratepayers in the Division while at this moment there are 251 persons on out-door-relief’ (p410d).

-‘Resolved: That in consequence of no boats being on the Island of Omey the poor people employed on the Relief Works now opened in Silerna Division suffer much having to wade their way through the tide sometimes at the risk of their lives and sometimes will be altogether unable to attend owing to the fact that there is not a boat on the Island, in which there are 29 families. The best way that these poor miserable people can be relieved is to supply them with a few boats and open some works on the Island’ (p72).

- ‘We the Guardians….entering on our duties for the years 1891 & 1892 find the monetary affairs of the Union in such an embarrassed state with such extreme distress existing in the Union all classes more or less affected by it that we feel it our bounden duty to bring the matter under the notice of the Government and seek its assistance to enable us to extricate the Union from its financial difficulties…’ (p290).

Extentc. 520pp

Physical descriptionBound volume

LanguageEnglish

SubjectRailways

Conditions governing accessAvailable 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 referencesDigitised in 2012 and available online at Access URL Here

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