Fairs & Marts / Portumna

Includes

1948-10-01 - 1985-03-08

• Correspondence between Solicitors & Portumna & District Development Co. Ltd ( D H Kearns), GCC and others relating to purchase of tolls from Estate of Earl Harewood.  Includes handwritten letter from the Bishop of Clonfert Rev. Dr Dignan to Co. Manager (C I Flynn) regarding the possibility of siting a new church on the Fairgreen site, if an alternative site for fairs can be acquired (19 Oct 1948).
• Notice of particulars of Tolls at Fairs (30 Oct 1948).
• Correspondence regarding derelict site (1949).
• Letter from Solicitors to GCC advising that Mr S ‘holds under a verbal agreement at a rent of £10, and this rent entitled him to hold a market on Saturdays and to use of the weighbridge on that day…’ (17 Aug 1949), with GCC responding that it ‘must get clear possession of the property…’ (23 Aug 1949).
• MO No. 14822, approving GCC’s purchase from the Harewood Estate the Fairgreen, Weigh bridge, right to collect tolls & customs and derelict site in the townland of Portumna Demesne containing 10 areas, 2 roods & 34 perches for £800. (12 Nov 1949).
• Sale closed (24 Aug 1950).  
• Correspondence regarding the use of Fairgreen for events, such as circus (John Duffy & Sons, the People’s Circus), as a car park, and right of way access during the building of a hotel (Westpark Hotel) (see for instance 6 Nov 1974)
• Correspondence relating to trespassers (3 Mar 1975)
• Letter from Fr P Egan, parish priest to GCC indicating that ‘since the erection of a mar in the town’ the Fairgreen has fallen into disuse, and points out that the site would be ideally placed for a new national school (29 Mar 1975)
• 1976 - request for use of Fairgreen as site for new National school

(See also Portumna & District Development Co. Ltd Minutes books held by GCC Archives)