Galway Poor Law Union, Board of Guardians Minutes, 1890-1891

Includes:-

-Pledge of support for Charles S Parnell and the Irish Parliamentary Party (p12).

-‘Oranmore Dispensary and residence still defective (p46b, see also p72, see also GPL6/91, p322b and p358).

-‘A female infant about 3 months old was found outside the Workhouse gate at 9.40 O’clock on last night.
Ordered to be baptised a Roman Catholic and named Mary Little’ (p61).

-‘Suitable clothing to be provided for the four children Mahony previous to their leaving the Workhouse and going to their grandfather in Tralee’ (p165).

-Tenders for supply of seed potatoes for distribution in the Union accepted (p166, see also pp193-194).

-‘The attention of the District Inspector of Police to be called to the case of Mary Corcoran, aged 17 years, who was admitted to the Workhouse on the 18^th ultimo a short time previously having giving birth to an illegitimate child and who died from exhaustion on the 21^st ultimo, as it has been alleged she met with harsh treatment outside before giving birth to the child’ (p217).

-Sarah Quinn inmate ‘declines to go as she states there is no provision made for her family outside’ (p269).

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‘Delia Ashe and child John Ashe, numbers 1270 and 1271, admitted on the 25^th ultimo and registered as Protestants now wish to be registered as Roman Catholics’ (p347).

-‘…remains of an old woman named Mary Francis were brough from Menlo to the Galway Cemetery on the 6^th inst.  That when the funeral reached the Cemetery at about 5.30 pm the Superintendent was not in attendance and a woman in charge of the Cemetery at the time, would not allow the interment to take place in the absence of the Superintendent…’(p594, see also p620).