County Secretary's Office / Piers & Harbours /Inishmaam Slip (Inis Meain, middle Aran Island), 1899-1906
Includes
-Correspondence, generally, between the County Surveyor (James Perry), County Secretary (W. G. Seymour), the Congested Districts Board (CDB) and OPW regarding the proposed repair and improvement to the slip following storm damage in 1899.
-Estimate cost of the works was £60 (1900-09-03), with Galway County Council to contribute half and the Congested Districts Board the other half.
-Costs to carry out works in addition to the repair work, such as extending the width of the slip were estimated at £200 (1900-12-07).
-Report from County Surveyor to Galway County Council outlying history of the slip from the time it was proposed in 1894, its subsequent design and construction at a cost of £400; detailing materials used, extent of damage in 1899, and examinations since then and proposal to repair and widen, and need to replace iron girder with consequence that £200 would not be enough to carry out necessary repairs, and advising that a revised plan to repair would cost at least £500 (1902-01-29).
-Letter from Fr Farragher, Parish priest Aran Island, to Council advising what he considers ‘the unfair and negligent manner in which the Aran Islands are dealt with in their financial relations with the County’ (1902-02-17).
-CDB agree to contribute £250 and outline terms (1903-02-20).
-Notice to Contractors inviting tenders for construction of boat-slip at Gora Point, Inishmaam Aran (1903-06-23).
-OPW increase offer of financial support, if required, to ‘have the work satisfactorily carried out’ (1903-08-17).
-Galway County Council agree to ‘take over the slip on completion’ (1903-08-25), and
-CDB advise that the slip is finished and ‘request that the County Council will be good enough to take over the work for future maintenance as promised’ (1905-10-11).