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Actions	GCC, Corporate Services/ Land & Property/ Disposal:CS - Galway Gaol, handing over of premises to Co. Co., & transfer to Diocese - site for Cathedral Remove from selection Add to selection TitleGCC, Corporate Services/ Land & Property/ Disposal:CS - Galway Gaol, handing over of premises to Co. Co., & transfer to Diocese - site for Cathedral RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceGC/CC13/3/0001 Date08/02/1940 to 02-07-1958 Production date 1940-02-08 - 1958-07-02 Scope and Content File of correspondence between Galway County Council and the Dept of Justice regarding the transfer of the Gaol premises and site to the local authority, and subsequently with Most Rev. Dr Browne, Bishop of Galway, and others, regarding its transfer to the Diocese of Galway, for a nominal fee of £10, and detailing conditions imposed relating to the transfer, and the official handing over of site. Includes: -Applications from local people for tenancy of Jail cottages. -Letter from Bishop Browne to Chairman and Members of GCC 'I desire hereby to make formal application to you the Chairman and members of Galway County Council for the sale to me of the site and buildings of Galway Jail’. ‘…the jail site would make a most suitable emplacement for a Cathedral: it is spacious, with dignified and beautiful surroundings, not hemmed in with unsightly buildings but with magnificent approaches and views of each side’). Forty years ago my predecessors could not have dreamed that this site would become available for a Cathedral. Today under native Irish government a jail is not required in County Galway. What finer tribute to our people or better justification of the long struggle for self-government? (p1). ‘..A Cathedral replacing a jail is the most perfect symbol of the triumph of a people who were proscribed for being Irish and Catholic...’(p2) (9 April 1940). -Letter from Co. Secretary to Dept of Justice advising that the Council has decided, subject to sanction of Minister, to transfer to Bishop of Galway, for the nominal sum of £10, the entire premises which were conveyed to GCC by Galway Prison Transfer Order 1940 (15 April 1940). -Lettering indicating that Diocese had previously purchased a site near O'Brien's Bridge for the cathedral, but is was considered unsuitable. Galway Corporation would like to take that site for a Town Hall (15 Apr 1940). -Galway County Council advise Bishop Browne that the Dept of Local Government & Public Health consent to the transfer of the Goal, and in a further letter to the County Solicitor (O’Dea) advice that if the site is not used for Cathedral it shall be re-conveyed by his Lordship back to Galway County Council (12 Jun 1940), and subsequent letter from the Bishop regarding this condition and end ‘The sad incident in Campile, Co. Wexford, has, I hope, done something to stimulate air raid precautions in Co. Galway’ (3 Sept 1940). -Letter from Bishop to Mr O'Flynn [Co. Secretary] 'I enclose a cheque of £10 (ten pounds) for the account of the Galway County Council, this being the sum of money which the County Council decided to ask for the Galway Jail site’ (2 May 1941). -Letter from O’Flynn to Brown regarding the ceremony for the formal handing over of possession to the Bishop (13 May 1941). -Letter from Browne to O’Flynn inquiring about the position of bodies of executed persons, he also makes reference to collection of any records that are available and that the Ministry might care to dispose of and that William O'Brien wrote one of his books in the Jail (14 Jun 1941). -Letter from the Dept. of Justice to Galway County Council advising that Chief Prison records, i.e. General Registers of Prisons from 1 Jan 1839 to 20 April 1939 are stored in Limerick Prison, and while it is not possible to dispose of them the Minister would be glad to allow His Lordship to inspect them (28 Jun 1941). -Copy of minutes of meeting of Borough council in the Committee regarding the possible ‘erection of a school at O’Brien’s Bridge site’ (4 Feb 1946). Extentc.200pp LanguageEnglish Irish Archival historyOfficial transfer Persons keyword Most Rev Dr Michael Browne SubjectPrisons Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Restrictions may apply. 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. 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TitleGCC, Corporate Services/ Land & Property/ Disposal:CS - Galway Gaol, handing over of premises to Co. Co., & transfer to Diocese - site for Cathedral

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceGC/CC13/3/0001

Date08/02/1940 to 02-07-1958

Production date 1940-02-08 - 1958-07-02

Scope and Content

File of correspondence between Galway County Council and the Dept of Justice regarding the transfer of the Gaol premises and site to the local authority, and subsequently with Most Rev. Dr Browne, Bishop of Galway, and others, regarding its transfer to the Diocese of Galway, for a nominal fee of £10, and detailing conditions imposed relating to the transfer, and the official handing over of site.

Includes:

-Applications from local people for tenancy of Jail cottages.

-Letter from Bishop Browne to Chairman and Members of GCC 'I desire hereby to make formal application to you the Chairman and members of Galway County Council for the sale to me of the site and buildings of Galway Jail’.
‘…the jail site would make a most suitable emplacement for a Cathedral: it is spacious, with dignified and beautiful surroundings, not hemmed in with unsightly buildings but with magnificent approaches and views of each side’).
Forty years ago my predecessors could not have dreamed that this site would become available for a Cathedral. Today under native Irish government a jail is not required in County Galway. What finer tribute to our people or better justification of the long struggle for self-government? (p1).
‘..A Cathedral replacing a jail is the most perfect symbol of the triumph of a people who were proscribed for being Irish and Catholic...’(p2) (9 April 1940).

-Letter from Co. Secretary to Dept of Justice advising that the Council has decided, subject to sanction of Minister, to transfer to Bishop of Galway, for the nominal sum of £10, the entire premises which were conveyed to GCC by Galway Prison Transfer Order 1940 (15 April 1940).

-Lettering indicating that Diocese had previously purchased a site near O'Brien's Bridge for the cathedral, but is was considered unsuitable. Galway Corporation would like to take that site for a Town Hall (15 Apr 1940).

-Galway County Council advise Bishop Browne that the Dept of Local Government & Public Health consent to the transfer of the Goal, and in a further letter to the County Solicitor (O’Dea) advice that if the site is not used for Cathedral it shall be re-conveyed by his Lordship back to Galway County Council (12 Jun 1940), and subsequent letter from the Bishop regarding this condition and end ‘The sad incident in Campile, Co. Wexford, has, I hope, done something to stimulate air raid precautions in Co. Galway’ (3 Sept 1940).

-Letter from Bishop to Mr O'Flynn [Co. Secretary] 'I enclose a cheque of £10 (ten pounds) for the account of the Galway County Council, this being the sum of money which the County Council decided to ask for the Galway Jail site’ (2 May 1941).

-Letter from O’Flynn to Brown regarding the ceremony for the formal handing over of possession to the Bishop (13 May 1941).

-Letter from Browne to O’Flynn inquiring about the position of bodies of executed persons, he also makes reference to collection of any records that are available and that the Ministry might care to dispose of and that William O'Brien wrote one of his books in the Jail (14 Jun 1941).

-Letter from the Dept. of Justice to Galway County Council advising that Chief Prison records, i.e. General Registers of Prisons from 1 Jan 1839 to 20 April 1939 are stored in Limerick Prison, and while it is not possible to dispose of them the Minister would be glad to allow His Lordship to inspect them (28 Jun 1941).

-Copy of minutes of meeting of Borough council in the Committee regarding the possible ‘erection of a school at O’Brien’s Bridge site’ (4 Feb 1946).

Extentc.200pp

LanguageEnglish
Irish

Archival historyOfficial transfer

Persons keyword Most Rev Dr Michael Browne

SubjectPrisons

Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Restrictions may apply. 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.

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