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Galway's native flannel and dye manufacture
Galway · city · Galway · 1847
Galway is noted for fine flannels rivalling the Welsh, as well as brilliant dyes. The author sees great opportunity for enterprise and capital investment in the manufacture of flannel, and suggests the native woollen manufactures of Connaught present an advantageous opening for temporary employment through loans.
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The native manufactures of Connaught are both linen and woollen, principally the latter, for home use. Galway is noted for its fine flannels, rivalling the Welsh, as well as for its brilliant dyes, and in the opinion of parties practically acquainted with the trade, there appears a great opening for enterprise and the employment of capital in the manufacture of flannel. The native woollen manufactures of Connaught appear also to present the most advantageous opening for temporary employment by means of loans. The articles
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As the companion tells it
As you pass through Galway, this is a place once noted for fine flannels that rivalled the Welsh, and for brilliant dyes. In 1847, a visitor wrote that the native woollen manufactures of Connaught were principally for home use, and that parties acquainted with the trade saw a great opening for enterprise and capital in the manufacture of flannel. The woollen manufactures appeared to present the most advantageous opening for temporary employment by means of loans.
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Agricultural improvements on a Connemara estate
near Connemara · locality · Galway
An estate in Connemara, recently purchased by a landlord offering long leases and moderate rents, has attracted wealthy farmers from outside the area. These settlers are actively transforming a dreary wilderness into fruitful agricultural fields.
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way, I was cheered by noticing considerable agricultural operations in progress : in Connemara, upon an extensile estate recently purchased, the owner by giving long leases, and offering his land at moderate rents, has induced several wealthy farmers from Scotland, England, and other parts of Ireland to settle upon it, and they are rapidly converting a dreary wilderness into fruitful fields. A large portion of this estate is what is termed bog land, easily drained and imi proved, and producing large crops of com, turnips, wurzel,
/ . or parsnips. I never remember to have seen more abundant
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As the companion tells it
As you travel through Connemara, there is an estate here that has changed hands recently. The new owner has been giving long leases and moderate rents, which has drawn in wealthy farmers from Scotland, England, and other parts of Ireland to settle on the land. They are turning what was a dreary wilderness into fruitful fields. Much of the estate is bog land, easily drained and improved, and it is producing large crops of corn, turnips, wurzel, and parsnips.
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Erris coarse woollen cloth manufacture
Erris · barony · Mayo · 1847
Throughout Erris there exists a native manufacture of coarse woollen cloth. The author argues that stimulating this manufacture would provide great benefit and supply warm material to any Clothing Association directing attention to that district.
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usually manufactured are strong and wanUi and peculiarly adapted to the wants of the people ; and it has often appeared to me very desirable that the funds of the various Ladies^ Clothing Associations should be expended upon these homespun articles, rather than in the purchase of ready made clothing, which is often quite unsuited to the purpose ; and although these home-spun articles may be a little dearer per yard, they will ultimately prove much more economical. A very large amount of real good has been effected by the various Ladies^ Clothing Associations, perhaps not least, by the encouragement of industrial employment; but I think in this respect they would have done still more had they directed their attention mainly to the manufacture of articles which they themselves could have purchased for the clothing of the naked. I believe they would have thus obtained the most suitable articles for their purpose, and have obviated the great difficulty which has existed in finding a market for the goods manufactured through their instrumentality. Throughout Erris there exists a native manufacture of coarse woollen cloth : a stimulus to its manufacture would prove of the highest benefit, and give a supply of warm material to any Clothing Association who might turn their s^ttentioif to that district. And here I would observe that the want of clothing is only equalled by the want of food ; this struck me most forcibly in portions of Sligo and Mayo, in some parts of which I saw several full-grown children entirely naked, and many poor women and girls whose clothing consisted of a single thin garment, and great boys, partially covered by a long-tailed coat. The poor generally may be said to be without bed-clothes.
Such, then, appear to me to be tlie means at our command for the relief of the inhabitants of Connaught during the coming winter ; but it is of the highest importance that immediate steps should be taken to make that great storehouse of wealth — the soil — available for the feeding of the starving multitudes. It is most distressing to think what sufferings have been endured by the past generations of the Irish people — as well as by the present — what numbers of lives have been sacrificed or shortened by the unwillingness or inability of the owners of property to discharge the commonest duties belonging to their position.
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Fish swarming off Erris shores amid famine
Erris · barony · Mayo · 1847
The shores of Erris were likewise swarming with fish, underscoring the irony of abundant marine food available to a destitute coastal population lacking boats and tackle.
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The shores of Erris were likewise swarming with fish. I
* Boats made of talrpaaling or oiled canvass, stretched over a light wooden frame — sometimes made of wicker work, similar to those described as in use by the ancient Britons.
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Sligo and Boyle union-houses noted as well-managed exceptions
Sligo · town · Sligo · 1847
Unlike many other workhouses in Connaught, the union-houses of Sligo and Boyle were in beautiful order, representing the better-managed institutions in the province. A large number of the union-houses were reported as well managed and in improved condition compared with the previous year.
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I will here refer, although somewhat out of place, to the condition of the union-houses of Connaught. I have already stated that 0¥ring to the want of funds, great difficulty exists in many of the Unions in providing for the inmates, but 1 am happy in being able to state that a large number are well managed, and are in an improved condition, as compared with last year. The Union-houses of Sligo and Boyle are in beautiful order. The worst which I visited was that of Carrickupon-Shannon : it was in a miserable state, and the doors were closed against further admissions ; and although built for seven hundred, had but two hundred and eighty inmates ; the gates were besieged by seventy or eighty wretched beings who in vain implored for admission. Numbers of them were in various stages of fever, which was terribly prevalent in the neighbourhood, and the fever sheds over-crowded. Two months before my visit, the doors of the poor-house were opened and the inmates expelled, entailing upon them most dire misery. Stem necessity has, in a considerable degree, overcome the strong prejudices of the poor people to enter these houses, and they are now generally full.* ^
Nearly two-thirds of the inmates of the Union-houses of Connaught are, as may be expected, children, many of them orphans. The neglected condition of the children in the Union-houses is a subject which often struck me as deserving serious attention. In many Unions, owing to their bankrupt state, there are no books, and no means whatever for providing the necessary books and school requisites ; and thus we may see hundreds of children wholly idle and unemployed, where a few pounds expense would enable them to be taught.
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As the companion tells it
Coming up on Sligo now. In the autumn of 1847, when a visitor toured the union workhouses of Connaught, many were struggling for want of funds, but he reported that a large number were well managed and improved over the previous year. The union-houses of Sligo and Boyle stood out. He called them in beautiful order, the best he saw in the province. By contrast, the workhouse at Carrick-upon-Shannon was the worst he visited, its doors closed against further admissions, built for 700 but holding only 280 inmates, with 70 or 80 wretched people outside begging in vain to get in. Many of them were in various stages of fever. Two months before his visit the doors had been opened and the inmates expelled. He noted that stern necessity had overcome the strong prejudices of the poor against entering these houses, and they were now generally full. Nearly two-thirds of the inmates across Connaught's workhouses were children, many of them orphans, and he remarked on their neglected condition. In many unions there were no books and no means to provide them, leaving hundreds of children wholly idle where a few pounds would have enabled them to be taught.
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Ballina Union board replaced by paid guardians
Ballina · townland · Mayo · 1847
The local Board of Guardians of Ballina Union in Mayo requested to be freed from the onerous duties devolving upon it, and a board of paid guardians was appointed in its place. This left Swineford as the only Mayo union remaining under local guardians.
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* Since the first edition was published the local Board of Guardians of one of the two remaining Unions (Ballina) has requested to be freed from the very onerous duties which devolved upon it, and a board of paid guardians has been appointed in its place. The Swineford Union is therefore the only oDe in Mayo remaining in the hands of local guardians.
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Close to Ballina, in 1847, the local Board of Guardians asked to be freed from the duties falling on them. A board of paid guardians was appointed in their place, leaving Swineford the only union in Mayo still in the hands of local guardians.
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Piscatorial school established at the Claddagh
Claddagh · electoral division · Galway · 1847–1848
A piscatorial school was established at the Claddagh under the care of the monks of the Claddagh convent, promising to be of service to the fishing community.
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* A piscatorial school has just been established at the Claddagh, under the care of the monks of the Claddagh convent, which promises to be of jservice.
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As the companion tells it
As you pass through Claddagh in Galway, a piscatorial school was established here in 1847, under the care of the monks of the Claddagh convent. It promised to be of service to the fishing community.
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Relief committee employment rules posted at Ballina
Ballina · townland · Mayo · 1848
The Local Committee Rooms at Ballina issued regulations in February 1848 for famine relief employment, including prohibitions on whiskey and illicit distillation, rules on wage payment, and penalties for theft or fraud on worksites.
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" Local Committee Rooms, Ballina, " 22nd February, 1848."
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As the companion tells it
Somewhere around here, the Local Committee Rooms at Ballina posted regulations on the 22nd of February 1848 for famine relief employment. They set rules on wage payment and penalties for theft or fraud on worksites, and prohibited whiskey and illicit distillation.
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Claddagh fishermen of Galway a distinct class
Claddagh · electoral division · Galway
In a footnote the author distinguishes the Claddagh fishermen of Galway from ordinary poor cottier-fishermen, noting they are quite a distinct class and will be discussed later.
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* In these remarks J do not, of course, include the Claddagh tishermen of Galway ; they are quite a distinct class, and will be afterwards noticed.
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As the companion tells it
Coming up near Claddagh, in Galway. The author notes that the Claddagh fishermen here are
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