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Gníomhartha	Loughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1921-1922 Remove from selection Add to selection TeidealLoughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1921-1922 StórGalway County Council Archives Services TagairtG01/08/13 Dáta13 January 1921 to 4 December 1922 Dáta táirgthe 1921-01-13 - 1922-12-04 Scóp agus Inneachar Volume of minutes of proceedings of Loughrea Rural District Council meetings. The minutes record attendance at the meetings (generally held twice monthly), together with proceedings of Council business conducted under various legalisation relating to the administration of the district under various headings such as general, financial, sanitary and labourers’ cottages. The proceedings of the Council acting as the ‘Sanitary Authority’ relate to health and sanitary conditions, such as the prevention of disease and the care and management of burial grounds, sewerage systems, and water supply. The proceedings under the ‘Labourers Acts’ relate to the provision and maintenance of labourers’ cottages. The minutes record resolutions proposed and resolved or rejected by the Council. They also include details of correspondence received, generally from the Local Government Board and actions required thereafter. Minutes are generally signed by the Chairman and witnessed by the Clerk. Includes - ‘The Clerk report that the (Remington) machine was seized by the Police on the 14th April last and delivered to the Military at Renmore Barracks, Galway, by them on that date, and that it was returned to him on the 22nd July. He states that the machine was in perfect order when seized but was broken when returned and that there was evidence that t had been extensively used while in possession of the Military…’(p201). - ‘That we call on the Ministry of Dail Eireann to cease all further negotiations with the British Government until all prisoners are released. We demand this as an Act of justice not mercy’ (p256). - ‘That we, the Loughrea Rural District Council request, the County Council to notify their Surveyors (County and Assistant) not to appoint in future Road Gangers other than labourers solely depending on their labour as presently there are employed on the roads farmers and their sons with holdings of 30 acres and upwards and we hereby apply to have such men removed immediately…’ (p340) - ‘Home Assistants Officers Flannery, Cahill and Fahy submitted their reports for the month of May on the children boarded-out in their respective districts.’ (p441). - ‘The Council had before them consideration of the Medical Officer’s report regarding the necessity of a supply of pure drinking water at Cahernagaarry and also the report of Dr. Walsh, Bacteriologist, that the present water in Cahernagaarry well is impure, but stating also that if the well were properly built with concrete wall all around and cemented on the inside from the bottom up the water would probably be very good’ (p451) - ‘Order, That Rural District Council again desire to point out that they are not the successor of the Loughrea Board of Guardians and do not accept any of their liabilities, neither have they received the unused funds of the Guardians as those were transferred to the County Council …..’(p461). - ‘The Clerk reported to the Council that he had applied to the several District Councils in the County for payments due to this Council for maintenance on, 1921, after which date the charge became a Co-at-Large one, and he had received replies from some of them stating that they have not funds to meet this charge as the County Council had retained the funds due to the Unions and that they considered that it is the County Council that should pay these amounts….’(p489, see also p 565). - ‘That the sympathy of this Council be tendered to the Irish Government and to the relatives of the late President Griffith and General Collins upon their deaths …’(p509) Fairsinge582pp TeangaEnglish Eochairfhocail an duine Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith 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. 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 G01/08/13 Loughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1921-1922 13 January 1921 to 4 December 1922file

TeidealLoughrea Rural District Council: Minute Book, 1921-1922

StórGalway County Council Archives Services

TagairtG01/08/13

Dáta13 January 1921 to 4 December 1922

Dáta táirgthe 1921-01-13 - 1922-12-04

Scóp agus Inneachar

Volume of minutes of proceedings of Loughrea Rural District Council meetings. The minutes record attendance at the meetings (generally held twice monthly), together with proceedings of Council business conducted under various legalisation relating to the administration of the district under various headings such as general, financial, sanitary and labourers’ cottages. The proceedings of the Council acting as the ‘Sanitary Authority’ relate to health and sanitary conditions, such as the prevention of disease and the care and management of burial grounds, sewerage systems, and water supply. The proceedings under the ‘Labourers Acts’ relate to the provision and maintenance of labourers’ cottages. The minutes record resolutions proposed and resolved or rejected by the Council. They also include details of correspondence received, generally from the Local Government Board and actions required thereafter.

Minutes are generally signed by the Chairman and witnessed by the Clerk.

Includes

- ‘The Clerk report that the (Remington) machine was seized by the Police on the 14th April last and delivered to the Military at Renmore Barracks, Galway, by them on that date, and that it was returned to him on the 22nd July. He states that the machine was in perfect order when seized but was broken when returned and that there was evidence that t had been extensively used while in possession of the Military…’(p201).

- ‘That we call on the Ministry of Dail Eireann to cease all further negotiations with the British Government until all prisoners are released. We demand this as an Act of justice not mercy’ (p256).

- ‘That we, the Loughrea Rural District Council request, the County Council to notify their Surveyors (County and Assistant) not to appoint in future Road Gangers other than labourers solely depending on their labour as presently there are employed on the roads farmers and their sons with holdings of 30 acres and upwards and we hereby apply to have such men removed immediately…’ (p340)

- ‘Home Assistants Officers Flannery, Cahill and Fahy submitted their reports for the month of May on the children boarded-out in their respective districts.’ (p441).

- ‘The Council had before them consideration of the Medical Officer’s report regarding the necessity of a supply of pure drinking water at Cahernagaarry and also the report of Dr. Walsh, Bacteriologist, that the present water in Cahernagaarry well is impure, but stating also that if the well were properly built with concrete wall all around and cemented on the inside from the bottom up the water would probably be very good’ (p451)

- ‘Order, That Rural District Council again desire to point out that they are not the successor of the Loughrea Board of Guardians and do not accept any of their liabilities, neither have they received the unused funds of the Guardians as those were transferred to the County Council …..’(p461).

- ‘The Clerk reported to the Council that he had applied to the several District Councils in the County for payments due to this Council for maintenance on, 1921, after which date the charge became a Co-at-Large one, and he had received replies from some of them stating that they have not funds to meet this charge as the County Council had retained the funds due to the Unions and that they considered that it is the County Council that should pay these amounts….’(p489, see also p 565).

- ‘That the sympathy of this Council be tendered to the Irish Government and to the relatives of the late President Griffith and General Collins upon their deaths …’(p509)

Fairsinge582pp

TeangaEnglish

Eochairfhocail an duine Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith

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.

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.

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