County Secretary's Office / Piers & Harbours / Kinvara Pier, 1899-1915
Kinvara Pier: Includes
-Letter from the Dept of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland to GCC advised that the ‘owners of the Pier at Kinvara County Galway, have consented to vest their rights in the County Council, provided £3,300 be expended on the improvement and enlargement of the quays, which is the amount estimated to be necessary by the County Surveyor’ (1902-10-11).
-Letter from CDB to GCC advising ‘an intimation has been received that the Trustees of the Sharpe Estate have consented to hand over the Kinvarra Pier and Harbour to the Congested Districts Board upon certain conditions, including a promise that the pier and harbour are kept in a proper state of repair’ and inquiring if GCC is prepared to take over the Pier and Harbour. (1903-10-24).
-Correspondence, generally handwritten letters, between Captain Shaw Taylor (Castle-Taylor), Murray Horinbrook, Chief Secretary and Lord Lieutenant’s office, Thomas Corless (Galway County Councillor, Kinvara) and W Gordon Seymour, GCC regarding funding required for a pier in Kinvara, in particular a possible contribution of £1,100 from GCC ‘provided the Department of Agriculture and the Irish Government under the provisions of the Marine Works Act gave a like sum making £3,300 in all the amount of Mr Perry’s (Surveyor) estimate’ (1903-12-02).
-GCC agree to the harbour improvement scheme as outlined in a letter from Dublin Castle, requiring £800 to be expended on the inner harbour and the remaining £200 to be expended in connection with the grant from the Dept of Agriculture (1904-11-22).
-CDB agree to take over temporarily from the owners Kinvarra Pier and Harbour (1904-12-23).
-Typed letter from Dublin Castle to GCC advising that the works of restoration sanctioned at an estimated cost of £1,900 have been undertaken and will be carried out by the Board of Works ‘But as to the further works of extension and improvement desired by the County Council, the Board of Works is not concerned and has no locus standi with regard to them’(1905-09-25).
-Detailed schedule of rates payable on goods, such as imports of bran, cider, coffee, earthenware, flour, hoops, Indian corn, lead and leadshot, slate, pater, turf, timber, tin, and wine, and exports such as calico, Irish moss or corrigeen, oats, timer, wheat, wool and potatoes (1905)