Minutes of Queenstown Town Commissioners Road Committee
TitleMinutes of Queenstown Town Commissioners Road Committee
ReferenceTC/CQ/RO/1
Date
9 Feb 1877 - 18 Nov 1893
CreatorCobh Town Council
Production date 1877 - 1893
Scope and ContentIncludes (for example):
- Weekly Meeting. 5 Oct 1877. Records repair of roads weekly cost of £5.3d.ds and sewer works of £52.2d.6s. A report from Mr O'Keeffe, Public Analyst, is noted regarding tests undertaken on petroleum held on store property of Messrs. Young, Terry, & Co. The temperature of four samples is given as 82oF , 95oF, 109 oF, and 119oF, and deemed dangerous. Committee order town clerk to contact magistrates for seizure of the dangerous petroleum.
- Weekly Meeting. 28 Oct 1881. Committee is warned by Head Constable that if Land League meetings are held in the town hall they will be held criminally responsible. Complaint recorded regarding state of cleanliness of market area. Notice of motion concerning re-location of town Post Office. Resolution for new Custom House at Queenstown.
- Weekly Meeting. 5 Jan 1883. Permission given to a Mrs Penrose to erect a Coffee Stall on the quays.
- Weekly Meeting. 29 Jan. 1886. Harbour Commissioners grant land at Ballast Quay for public convenience. Weighmaster reports that stallholders at the market had refused to pay rent for their stalls. The stallholders had stated this was due to vendors selling outside the market area not paying rent. Committee agrees to have vendors of salt and vegetables move into the marketplace and remove any vendors selling outside it.
- Weekly Meeting. 21 Jun 1889. Contains strongly worded denouncement of Arthur Smith-Barry, for his role in evicting tenants on the Charles Ponsonby estate, Youghal. The meeting records that Canon [Daniel] Keller was 'grossly insulted' in his 'own church grounds' and that the 'tender ones of his flock' were also insulted. The resolution of the Town Commissioners states: 'We denounce in the strongest terms available to us the foul Conspiracy of which Mr Smith Barry is the head- a Conspiracy against the peace and order of the entire Community - a Conspiracy against the lives and liberty, against the prosperity and character of industrious defenceless people and we pledge ourselves to aid in any way we can to defeat this Conspiracy'.
- Weekly Meeting. 28 Jun 1889. Contains secretary's copy of letter received from Daniel Keller, P.P, St Mary's, Youghal, regarding the resolution passed condemning Arthur Smith-Barry and the Ponsonby tenant evictions. Commissioners pass resolution for board to attend demonstration in Cork to protest the Ponsonby tenant evictions.
- Weekly Meeting. 5 Oct 1877. Records repair of roads weekly cost of £5.3d.ds and sewer works of £52.2d.6s. A report from Mr O'Keeffe, Public Analyst, is noted regarding tests undertaken on petroleum held on store property of Messrs. Young, Terry, & Co. The temperature of four samples is given as 82oF , 95oF, 109 oF, and 119oF, and deemed dangerous. Committee order town clerk to contact magistrates for seizure of the dangerous petroleum.
- Weekly Meeting. 28 Oct 1881. Committee is warned by Head Constable that if Land League meetings are held in the town hall they will be held criminally responsible. Complaint recorded regarding state of cleanliness of market area. Notice of motion concerning re-location of town Post Office. Resolution for new Custom House at Queenstown.
- Weekly Meeting. 5 Jan 1883. Permission given to a Mrs Penrose to erect a Coffee Stall on the quays.
- Weekly Meeting. 29 Jan. 1886. Harbour Commissioners grant land at Ballast Quay for public convenience. Weighmaster reports that stallholders at the market had refused to pay rent for their stalls. The stallholders had stated this was due to vendors selling outside the market area not paying rent. Committee agrees to have vendors of salt and vegetables move into the marketplace and remove any vendors selling outside it.
- Weekly Meeting. 21 Jun 1889. Contains strongly worded denouncement of Arthur Smith-Barry, for his role in evicting tenants on the Charles Ponsonby estate, Youghal. The meeting records that Canon [Daniel] Keller was 'grossly insulted' in his 'own church grounds' and that the 'tender ones of his flock' were also insulted. The resolution of the Town Commissioners states: 'We denounce in the strongest terms available to us the foul Conspiracy of which Mr Smith Barry is the head- a Conspiracy against the peace and order of the entire Community - a Conspiracy against the lives and liberty, against the prosperity and character of industrious defenceless people and we pledge ourselves to aid in any way we can to defeat this Conspiracy'.
- Weekly Meeting. 28 Jun 1889. Contains secretary's copy of letter received from Daniel Keller, P.P, St Mary's, Youghal, regarding the resolution passed condemning Arthur Smith-Barry and the Ponsonby tenant evictions. Commissioners pass resolution for board to attend demonstration in Cork to protest the Ponsonby tenant evictions.
Extent1 vol (c.650 pp)
SubjectLand War, 1880s, Town Planning
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