Tuam Town Commissioners, Minutes
Bound volumes of minutes of Tuam Town Commissioner meetings, which were generally held in the Town Hall, initially held weekly, then from mid 1846 monthly, also includes minutes of quarterly, special and annual meetings. From 2006 also include minutes of the Joint Policing Committee. The minutes record attendance, correspondence, decisions and resolutions and details of business transacted relating to issues such as the provision of public lighting, management of the shambles (meat and fish markets), permissions for use of the Town Hall for various functions and events, such as concerts or auctions and by groups such as the Boys Scouts, setting dates for fairs and markets, collection of tolls, customs and rents, and orders to issue payments such as for paving, repairing water pumps and gas lighting, from the early twenty century the minutes also relate to the provision and maintenance of public housing, such as at McHale Terrace and Parkmore Terrance in the 1920s and in the mid-late 1930s the construction of over 160 houses in the Tubberjarlath Road Farranbox and Athenry Road areas of the town, also to the letting of houses and collection of rents, the provision of a fire engine and brigade in the late 1930s, and minor road and footpath maintenance.
The Commissioners also frequently passed resolutions expressing its views on local and national events and political developments.
From September 1933 (2nd ¼ of volume, TTC1/8) onwards the minutes are generally type-scripted and pasted into the volumes.