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Gníomhartha	Loughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1903-104 Remove from selection Add to selection TeidealLoughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1903-104 StórGalway County Council Archives Services TagairtG01/08/4 Dáta13 June 1903 to 1 October 1904 Dáta táirgthe 1903-06-13 - 1904-10-01 Scóp agus Inneachar Examples of minutes include: -‘Read letter from Dr Quinlan, Medical Officer of Health of the Athenry District, reporting the occurrence of four cases of Scarlet Fever of a mild type in one family in Dunsandle, and stating that he has isolated the cases and does not apprehend the spread of the disease. He further, recommended the distribution of a small quantity of lime amongst the poor people in Athenry for the purpose of lime washing their houses’ (p91). -‘That whereas the Government have remitted the charges for the extra police force in this county as in other counties in Ireland, we the Loughrea Rural District Council call upon the Galway County Council to make a refund to each and every ratepayer in the Rural District of Loughrea upon whom the said tax for extra police has been levied and paid, and further that the proposal of the Galway County Council to place to the credit of the entire county the money which has been paid by the ratepayers of this District Council is one which does not meet with our approval and that we consider that those who paid this tax are the persons entitled to the benefits derived from the Government Grant to the County Council’ (p243). -Rural District Council protest ‘against the hardship inflicted on the tenants of Ireland by the landlords bringing them into the High Courts in Dublin if they are not able to pay their rents immediately they become due instead of the County Courts where justice can be done between landlord and tenants at half the expense and considering the total inability of the tenants this disastrous year owing to the almost total failure of their crops they are not able to meet their engagements with either landlords or shopkeepers, and in view of the efforts of the Rt. Hon. The Chief Secretary to settle the tenants on the land we call on him to take some steps to prevent a hardship of a very grievous nature being inflicted on the tenants of Ireland by landlords who are unwilling to sell to their tenants by heaping up costs of the superior Courts for the purpose of coercing them into paying rents they are totally unable to pay’ (p244). -‘Read Report from Dr Ryan, Loughrea drawing attention to the choked condition of the eye of Mountpleasant bridge which causes the houses further down to be flooded in wet weather’ (p331). -‘That we regard with regret and alarm the instructions recently issued to their Inspectors by the Secretaries of the Board of Irish National Education re Irish as an “extra subject” in the schools, and that we appeal to managers, teachers and to every other Irishman interested in the national language to protest before the world against the monstrous outrage of attempting to proscribe our native language in our own schools, which though with grim mockery are still called “National”’(p342). -‘Resolution from the Oughterard Rural District Council objecting to the action of the County Council in levying off the County at large certain sums for the improvement of Kinvarra Pier and the equipment of a Technical School at Gort’ (p361). - ‘Resolved- That we abandon that portion of the Improvement Scheme made by us under the Labourers acts which propose to purchase plots for 4 cottages in the townland of Caherroyn, as the amount of compensation fixed by the Arbitrator is in our opinion excessive. That the Clerk be directed to publish the necessary notices in regard to this abandonment and that steps be taken to purchase the other plots set out in the scheme without further delay’ (p374, see also p381, p413). -‘Read circular letter from the Local Government Board No. 67 dated 2^nd May 1904 setting out the manner in which accounts under the Public Libraries (Ireland) Acts should be kept’ (p412). -‘Resolved: That considering the central position of Athenry and the fact of 2,000 acres being recently purchased by the Congested Districts Board in the vicinity of the town and the great Railway accommodation we consider that it would be a proper place for an Agricultural college as no more suitable position could be found in the County of Galway for an agricultural college’ (p542). -‘Read letter from Dr Quinlan, Medical Officer of Health, Athenry stating that the graveyard at the Abbey, Athenry, is at present in a terribly congested condition there being no rooms for any new graves to be opened and he suggested that the present graveyard be enlarged by the purchase of two small pieces of land on the south and west sides’ (p557). Fairsinge560pp TeangaEnglish Eochairfhocail an duineRural District Council NótaíAvailable 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. No material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Coinníollacha a rialaíonn atáirgeadhNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Leibhéalfile G01/08 Loughrea Rural District Council, 1901-1925 1901 - 1925fonds 17 G01/08/4 Loughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1903-104 13 June 1903 to 1 October 1904file

TeidealLoughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1903-104

StórGalway County Council Archives Services

TagairtG01/08/4

Dáta13 June 1903 to 1 October 1904

Dáta táirgthe 1903-06-13 - 1904-10-01

Scóp agus Inneachar

Examples of minutes include:

-‘Read letter from Dr Quinlan, Medical Officer of Health of the Athenry District, reporting the occurrence of four cases of Scarlet Fever of a mild type in one family in Dunsandle, and stating that he has isolated the cases and does not apprehend the spread of the disease. He further, recommended the distribution of a small quantity of lime amongst the poor people in Athenry for the purpose of lime washing their houses’ (p91).

-‘That whereas the Government have remitted the charges for the extra police force in this county as in other counties in Ireland, we the Loughrea Rural District Council call upon the Galway County Council to make a refund to each and every ratepayer in the Rural District of Loughrea upon whom the said tax for extra police has been levied and paid, and further that the proposal of the Galway County Council to place to the credit of the entire county the money which has been paid by the ratepayers of this District Council is one which does not meet with our approval and that we consider that those who paid this tax are the persons entitled to the benefits derived from the Government Grant to the County Council’ (p243).

-Rural District Council protest ‘against the hardship inflicted on the tenants of Ireland by the landlords bringing them into the High Courts in Dublin if they are not able to pay their rents immediately they become due instead of the County Courts where justice can be done between landlord and tenants at half the expense and considering the total inability of the tenants this disastrous year owing to the almost total failure of their crops they are not able to meet their engagements with either landlords or shopkeepers, and in view of the efforts of the Rt. Hon. The Chief Secretary to settle the tenants on the land we call on him to take some steps to prevent a hardship of a very grievous nature being inflicted on the tenants of Ireland by landlords who are unwilling to sell to their tenants by heaping up costs of the superior Courts for the purpose of coercing them into paying rents they are totally unable to pay’ (p244).

-‘Read Report from Dr Ryan, Loughrea drawing attention to the choked condition of the eye of Mountpleasant bridge which causes the houses further down to be flooded in wet weather’ (p331).

-‘That we regard with regret and alarm the instructions recently issued to their Inspectors by the Secretaries of the Board of Irish National Education re Irish as an “extra subject” in the schools, and that we appeal to managers, teachers and to every other Irishman interested in the national language to protest before the world against the monstrous outrage of attempting to proscribe our native language in our own schools, which though with grim mockery are still called “National”’(p342).

-‘Resolution from the Oughterard Rural District Council objecting to the action of the County Council in levying off the County at large certain sums for the improvement of Kinvarra Pier and the equipment of a Technical School at Gort’ (p361).

- ‘Resolved- That we abandon that portion of the Improvement Scheme made by us under the Labourers acts which propose to purchase plots for 4 cottages in the townland of Caherroyn, as the amount of compensation fixed by the Arbitrator is in our opinion excessive. That the Clerk be directed to publish the necessary notices in regard to this abandonment and that steps be taken to purchase the other plots set out in the scheme without further delay’ (p374, see also p381, p413).

-‘Read circular letter from the Local Government Board No. 67 dated 2^nd May 1904 setting out the manner in which accounts under the Public Libraries (Ireland) Acts should be kept’ (p412).

-‘Resolved: That considering the central position of Athenry and the fact of 2,000 acres being recently purchased by the Congested Districts Board in the vicinity of the town and the great Railway accommodation we consider that it would be a proper place for an Agricultural college as no more suitable position could be found in the County of Galway for an agricultural college’ (p542).

-‘Read letter from Dr Quinlan, Medical Officer of Health, Athenry stating that the graveyard at the Abbey, Athenry, is at present in a terribly congested condition there being no rooms for any new graves to be opened and he suggested that the present graveyard be enlarged by the purchase of two small pieces of land on the south and west sides’ (p557).

Fairsinge560pp

TeangaEnglish

Eochairfhocail an duineRural District Council

NótaíAvailable 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. No 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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