CORK CITY 1847

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(CE 27/1/1847) THREATENED RIOTS - NOT a day now passes, since the closing of the Workhouse, without great fears of violence or riot being excited in the breasts of our citizens, by assemblages of gaunt, ragged, and miserable looking men, seemingly from the rural districts, carrying shovels, spades, or other industrial implements, who crowd into the city at an early hour each morning; and, by a most natural attraction, surround the different bakeries and food shops, their eyes, and alas! only their eyes, devouring the nutriment denied them. Some of these poor fellows, who ere long, it is feared, will add to the already awful list of the victims of famine, now and then threaten violence, if they are longer denied either food or employment; but they are easily appeased, and separate without doing any injury to life or property, and without the intervention of the police, who have of late, on more than one occaision, thought it judicious to display their force. As yet nothing serious has occurred, but such assemblages are calculated to give alarm, and call for the intervention of the humane and charitable.

(CE 20/1/1847) POLICE OFFICE MONDAY - MORTALITY CASE - Counsellor Scannell appeared on behalf of Mr. Wm. French, a Journeyman Printer, and stated that he been a member of the ‘Cork Co-operative Benefit Society’ for nearly four years, and had paid up his dues during that period, but some time ago had been taken ill and looked for the usual relief from the Society as allowed by their rules. After some time and, as he believed, by its being referred to Arbitration, a couple of pounds had been paid him – but latterly he had again been unable, from another and severe attack, to attend to his trade, and sought the customary assistance – on the present occasion he was refused the usual benefit accorded to him on the face of the regulations; why he could not say, but it was a great hardship after paying into the Exchequer for several years that he should now be debarred those benefits for which he and others like him were in the habit of joining these Societies, and paying their money to save a little hoard for the time of sickness and distress. His client’s claim was a strong and a just one – and he should leave it in the hands of the Court, satisfied that they would afford him that redress to which he had so good a title. - Wm. French, sworn – Had joined the society nearly four years ago; had paid up his dues, except 2s., to the time he had taken ill; there was another 1s. 4d. immediately after it became due which he sent in; it was refused; it was alleged he was not in benefit, although every one was allowed by the rules to be 2s. in debt and no more; the monthly night was that for payment and that had not come at the time, so that he could not have paid up; he claimed 10s. per week for 13 weeks, and 7s. 6d. per week for 11 subsequent weeks, which they still refused to pay him; they said he was not in benefit at the time he was taken ill, whereas he considered he was perfectly so under the sanction of the rules, had they taken his 1s. 4d. when it was sent. - Counsellor Walsh, on the part of the president and officers of the society, had to say, that the society had a very arduous task to perform in of their own defence – to see that the rules were strictly complied with, and that no irregular precedent would be established whereby improper claims would be rendered easy and detrimental to its interests. The fact was, they saw that Mr. French had really deceived himself – they believed him to be a respectable man, but he had deluded himself in conceiving that he had ever been a proper person as to his state of health to have joined the society; and it was therefore decidedly necessary to see he faithfully complied with the rules prescribed for its members. He had not done so, and they considered him as not in benefit at the time of his illness, and therefore not entitled to such assistance as by the rules should be otherwise afforded him. - After considerable argument on the rules in question, and the law as bearing upon them, the Bench requested that the book of rules should be left with them until the morning, when they should deliver their judgement on the case.

(CE 5/2/1847) - MORE DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN CORK - SERGEANT GEALE, appeared before the bench this morning, and related a very distressing case of destitution. On last evening, a poor man was passing down Clarence Street with two children on his back; and from their colour and appearance it seemed that they wre in a dying condition. Sergeant Geale was apprised of the circumstance, and found the children in a house in the neighbourhood, lying on a heap of shavings. One of them a little girl of three years old, appeared to be just dead, and, according to the Constable's evidence, has since died; and the other a boy of six years old, was conveyed to the infirmary, where Dr. Rountree said it was almost useless to receive him, as he was also reduced to the last extremity. - The medical gentleman who had visited them gave it as his unqualified opinion that the younger child's death had resulted from starvation, and the other would in all probability die from the same cause. Their bodies presented a most emaciated appearance, being, according to the Constable's statement, nothing but skin and bone. The father stated he was from the neighbourhood of Bandon, where he had been unable to procure any employment, either from the farmers of the district or on the public works in the neighbourhood. - Mr. J. J. O'Brien observed that there were hundreds of similar cases of which the police had no information.

(CE 8/2/1847) - FOOD RIOTS IN THE CITY - On Saturday a deputation, consisting of the principal Master Bakers in the city, waited on the Magistrates at the Police-office, and stated that in consequence of the present alarming height to which the disturbances in the city have risen, they should be compelled to close their shops and sell no more bread unless the court would ensure to them the protection of the military and police force. The court requested the deputation to attend at the office at 3 o'clock, at which time they would be able to enter into such arrangements as to secure to their body the required protection. - At the hour appointed, the Mayor, Mr. Fagan, and Mr. Lyons, together with Col. Beresford and Captain Price, County Inspector, were in attendance, and it was then agreed on that a party of the military should assemble at Tuckey-street guard-house every morning, at 11 o'clock, and then in company with a body of the police force, to patrol through the city until night, the shops of the bakers not to be opened until after the hour first mentioned. The deputation then withdrew, declaring themselves satisfied with this arrangement, which was carried into effect for the first time this morning.

(CE 3/3/1847) - EMPLOYEES OF LECKY & BEALE - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER – SIR, - We, the Workmen, Joiners, Carpenters and other Trades employed by Messrs. LECKY and BEALE, of Patrick’s Quay, avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity, after the successful Launch from their yard on Monday last of the beautiful Barque ‘Calypso’, 450 Tons measurement, the third Iron Ship built in the City of Cork, to offer in this public manners to that respectable and enterprising Firm, our warmest thanks for the employment afforded us during a season of unexampled distress. In spite of the difficulties which too often impede the progress of a new undertaking, it is gratifying to us to have to state that by the energy, knowledge and perseverance of our Employers, Messrs. LECKY and BEALE, as well as by the native talent and mechanical skill developed among ourselves in the contraction of those Iron Ships, a business hitherto unknown in the South of Ireland, has been thus successfully commenced – can now stand rivalry with any part of the United Kingdom – will in all likelihood be greatly increased, and thereby give employment to a large number of the Labouring Classes. Cork, March 3, 1847

(CE 8/3/1847) – TO BE SOLD – The Interest in that part of the Lands of COOLOWNE, at present held by MR. JOSEPH CREEDON, containing about Eighty Acres, for a Term of Three Lives, at a rent of £27.13s per annum. This Farm is situated in the North Liberties of the City of Cork, and from judicious outlay made upon it by its present Proprietor for years, it will be found, on examination, by the purchaser to be a most desirable investment. March 1^st, 1847

(CE 15/3/1847) - CORK UNION FEVER - THE FEVER which afflicts the lower classes is beginning to reach the upper, as we have long warned the public. We regret to hear that Mr. LAWRENCE is at present ill with fever; and that Mr. BURKE, the Commissioner, is also afflicted with the same disease. The necessary contact with the unfortunate people that crowd the gates of the Workhouse has been the undoubted cause; and in all probability will be the cause of greater danger to the guardians, if something be not done to prevent it. - It has been suggested that Mr. MORGAN's house at Buckingham Place be still retained, and that the business of the Guardians be transacted here. This house had been taken for the Police of the Depot in Barrack Street, when the latter place was contemplated as a ward of the Workhouse. We think the above suggestion worth the consideration of the Guardians.

HOLY TRINITY - ‘Rev. Williamson presiding. - The Chairman said that the out-going wardens accounts would not be ready for twenty-eight days; their first business then would be to elect wardens for the present year. He did not think the re-appointment of the two out-going wardens would be a safe experiment, however desirable it might be; and Mr. Dixon, one of the gentlemen, had told him that unless he (the Rev. Mr. Williamson) had made it a special request, he could not, consistent with his private interests, serve a second year. He thought it right to state that during his ministry he never met with one who had taken more interest in the affiars of the parish than Mr. Dixon had (hear, hear). That (Christ Church) was now really, the only fitting place for the worship of God in the City of Cork, and that was owing to Mr. Dixon’s exertions. - Mr. F. Lloyd suggested a special vote of thanks to Mr. Dixon. - Mr. Lanphier – (one of the out-going wardens) – Do you mean to throw a slur on his brother warden? - Mr. Lloyd – By no means, indeed. - Mr. Lanphier – But this talk was so pointed. - Mr. John Hodder proposed, and Mr. Lloyd seconded, a special vote of thanks to Messrs. Dixon and Lanphier, the outgoing wardens, which was unanimously agreed to. - Mr. Lloyd asked Mr. Dixon if he would retain the office of warden for the present year? - Mr. Dixon could not consistently with his private interests. - Mr. Lloyd – Who were the sidesmen for the past year? - Chairman – Messrs. Savage and Belcher. - Mr. Purcell – Mr. Savage is not now a member of this parish though. - Chairman – Who has taken Mr. Savage’s house? - Mr. Lloyd – Mr. Bradford. He would suggest that Messrs Bradford and Belcher be appointed wardens for the present year. - Chairman – (in an undertone) – Oh, Mr. Bradford is not a member of the church at all. - Mr. Lloyd – Mr. Haines at the end of George’s street would be a very good man. - Chairman – I do not see him attending to his church. He goes more to Methodist Chapels than to any other place of worship. - Mr. Dixon suggested Mr. John Atkin, Morrison’s Quay. - Mr. Hodder – How do you know that the house is his own? It may be his mothers. - Mr. Purcell – Mr. Haynes is certainly a very good man. - Chairman – He goes to a different church though. He has taken a seat, I believe, in Wesly Chapel. - Mr. Hosford what objection can that be? - Chairman – Make haste, gentlemen, we have only ten minutes left previous to the commencement of the second vestry. - Alderman Roche here entered. - Chairman – Mr. Roche has entered a little too soon; however, he may remain. If Mr. Dixon would retain the office for the present year he would confer a favour on me (hear, hear). - Mr. Dixon consented. - Mr. Larrymore proposed Mr. Dixon and Mr. Belcher as wardens (hear, hear). - Chairman – Make haste gentlemen, we have but seven minutes. Mr. Hosford has kindly consented to act with Mr. Dixon. - Messrs. Hosford and Dixon were then appointed wardens, there being no dissentients. - Mr. Hosford – Well, for the last 56 years I have been filching off this office (laughter). - Messrs Anthony Perrier and John Cotter Atkin were nominated sidesmen. - The first vestry was then adjourned, and the second commenced.’ - ‘William Daunt, Thomas Lyons, JP, John Hodder, F. Lloyd and Andrew F. Roche, Esqrs., were appointed officers of health for the present year.’

ST. PETER’S - ‘At the second Vestry, Mr. James Swiney and Mr. Charles Agar were appointed to the office of Churchwardens for the current year. The second Vestry was held at 12 o clock, at which hour there were but a half dozen rate payers present.’ - ‘The Chairman [the Archdeacon], after expressing a hope that they might soon see a fire brigade formed in Cork, for the better protection of the lives and property of the Citizens, and which should be supported by a general rate, said it would be necessary for them to appoint local Officers of Health, to act in conjunction with those under the new act; they could not have more than five, and not less than two, so that in addition to the Church Wardens, they should appoint three additional gentlemen to that office. - The following gentlemen were unanimously appointed; Michael Murphy, Esq., Alderman Corbett, and Mr. Oakshott, Apothecary. - A Rate payer complained of the disgraceful and disgusting state in which the Lanes, and even the Streets, were suffered to be by the Wide Street Commissioners. - The Rev. Mr. Marmion remarked that it would be idle to attempt to check fever so long as the lanes were allowed to be the depositories of all kinds of filth (hear, hear). - The Chairman suggested that a deputation should wait on the Board on the matter. - On the motion of Mr. Bass, the Archdeacon was moved from and Mr. Marmion to the chair, when an unanimous vote of thanks was passed to the former Chairman and the vestry seperated.’

ST. PAUL’S - Rev. Mr. St. George presiding. - It was unanimously resolved that there should be not assessment on the Parish in the current year for support of foundlings, salary for vestry clerk, repairs of engine, cholera rate, parish coffins, &c. - Messrs. Joshua Hayes and Robert Mayne were elected to the Office of Churchwardens for the present year. - Messrs. Ballard, Edden and Guy, with the Churchwardens were elected a Foundling Committee, and Messrs F. Jennings, C. Forbes, J. Lloyd and I.S. Varian were elected parochial officers of health; after which the vestry was adjourned.

ST. MARY SHANDON - Doctor Neligan in the chair. - ‘Capt. Pratt. and Mr. Humphrey Bolster were appointed Church Wardens.’ - ‘A nominal sum of 5s. was alloted for the Parish Engine, which is usually kept in the Messrs. Wyse’s Distillery, and always in effective repair.’ - Present:- Mr. O Flyn, Mr. Spearing, Mr. Long, Mr. Gillman, Mr. Morrogh, Mr. Williams and Mr. Dorman.

ST. ANN SHANDON - The Rev. Mr. Chinnery in the Chair. - At Twelve o clock the second Vestry was opened, there being about 20 rate payers present. - Ald. Harley, having read the act appointing Officers of Health, proposed the following gentlemen to act in that capacity:- Mr. T. Mahony, Mr. J. Simms, Mr. Denis Hickie, Mr. E. Brady and Mr. T. Flynn. - The nomination having been seconded by Mr. J. Burke, was carried unanimously. - Mr. James Daly next proposed that a sum of £150 be raised, and placed in the hands of the gentlemen appointed to act a s officers of health. - Mr. J. Burke had great pleasure in seconding Mr. Daly’s proposition. - Mr. Delay would propose as an amendment, that no amount be raised until the new law came into operation. - The amendment, on a division, was carried by a majority of one. - Messrs. William Brown and Richard Levers were appointed Church Wardens for the present year. - There were no sums assessed at this vestry either, which soon after adjourned.

ST. FINN BARR’S - The Dean in the Chair. - William Beamish, Esq., and Richard B. Tooker, Esq., were appointed Church Wardens for the ensuing year, to whom was handed over a balance of £23.6s from the outgoing officers. - The following gentlemen were appointed Officers of Health: - William Mannix, John M’Namara, Thomas Hare and John Woods, Esqrs. The Vestry then adjourned.

ST. NICHOLAS’S - Rev. J. N. Woodroffe, presiding. - In order to carry out as speedily as possible the erection of the new church about to be built in this parish, it was deemed most advisable to appoint Wm. L. Perrier, and John Ballard, Esqrs., the Treasurer and Secretary to the building fund – Church Wardens for the present year. - Sums were pro forma, asked for the support of foundlings, for the parish egnine, for parish coffins, &c., and negatived. - The Rector, the Churchwardens, R. Gould, A. Newman, James C. Cogan, F. Jones and John Shea, Esqrs., were nominated officers of health. The vestry then adjourned.

(CE 22/3/1847) FEVER IN THE CITY - WE regret to say that fever is increasing rapidly, and becoming each day more malignant in its character, and more fatal in its consequences. Since our last, we have heard of many cases among the wealthier classes of our fellow-citizens, who have been suddenly stricken down, and whose disease has assumed the most malignant character. Among those that we heard of, are Mr. BEAMISH, of Beaumont; Mr. LAURANCE - whose disease terminated fatally; Mr. ELLIS of Prince's-street; Mr. THOMAS JENNINGS; Mr. MARK O'SHAUGHNESSY, &c. - Then the Work-house has its patients - so has the Fever-hospital - so the North Infirmary - so has every lane in the city of Cork. Is it not time for the citizens to look to the matter, ere it becomes still more dangerous? It is not the tenth, nor the twentieth time that we have lifted our warning voice.

(CE 9/4/1947) – FEVER AND MORTALITY - The fever and infection against which we have been warning our fellow citizens are making rapid progress through the lanes and alleys of this city. A gentleman informs us that the quarter, lying between Bandon Road and Friars Walk, is full of sickness and mortality. Three children of MORTY KELLEHER, of Farrissy's Lane, off Bandon Road, lay dead of fever on the 7th inst., and the mother lay sick of the same disease. The house was extremely dangerous from dirt and contagion. And such is the condition of thousands of tenements and their tentants, in the city - nurseries of disease begotten of poverty, and impurity. - Again, and again we tell the healthier and more opulent portion of our fellow citizens, that the pestilence of the blind alleys may flow out into the open streets. Day by day our worst forebodings are proved true, and more deplorable results may be looked forward to, during the warm weather of the coming summer.

(CE 12/4/1847) – STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE - Total admitted during the week ending Saturday, the 10th instant, 21. Births, 1. Number at the end of last week, 4,803 - 4,825. Discharged, 201. Died, 128. Remained out on Pass, 7. Deserted, 2. In Hospital, 511. Extern Patients, 1,344 - 1,855. Total Remaining, 4,487. The deaths for last week in the house are 31 less than the previous week and 47 less than the week before.

(CE 16/4/1847) – DEATHS IN THE STREETS - On last evening, about five o'clock, Constable Cudmore found a poor man stretched dead in a field at the rere of the gas house. The deceased was suspected to be from the neighbourhood of Mallow; and had been begging in Cork for a considerable time. - A child expired in the arms of its mother in the North Main Street about ten o'clock this morning. - A poor man died in Abbey-street at an early hour last evening, apparently after enduring hunger and other privations for a long time. A subscription was raised amongst the charitable persons of the neighbourhood to obtain a coffin for the deceased. - In all such cases the coroner has refused to hold any inquest, as their frequency at present would entail an immense expense on the citizens.

(CE 21/4/1847) – A MONSTER GRAVE - SOME idea of the dreadful mortality mow prevalent throughout our city, may be formed from the fact that on yesterday, there were no fewer than thirty-six bodies interred in one grave, or pit, in the pauper department of the cemetery of the Very Rev. Mr. Mathew. These deaths are entirely independent of the numbers occurring in the Workhouse. It has been ascertained that in the last fortnight there were disposed of no less than 300 coffins in the Barrack-street, the greater number of which were required for the parish of St. Nicholas.

(CE 28/4/1847) – DREADFUL MORTALITY - OUR readers may remember that, in our paper of Wednesday last, we gave a brief description of a miserable house in Peacock Lane, in which two children lay dead on the same straw, while the mother was dying in another corner of the same room. The house was occupied by three families from the country - all related to each other; and consisting of - REGAN, his wife, and four children - MURPHY, his wife and four children - MINAHAN, his wife and two children. - On Wednesday last, there were five dead bodies lying on the floor of one room; and, since then, two more have died. So that now the families stand thus - of the O'REGAN'S, five are dead - of the MURPHYS, two are dead - and all those living at present, with the exception of DENIS REGAN, are lying down in the sickness. - Dead - seven; sick - six; in health, but one!

(CE 30/4/1847) – WORKHOUSE MORTALITY - IT appears that from the 27th of December 1846, to the end of the last week, a period of less than four months, 2,130 human creatures have perished in the Workhouse of this union. Had the workhouse, instead of being an asylum for distress, been a machine for depopulationg the country, it scarcely could have answered its object with more terrible effect. So great a waste of life in this single establishment, may give some idea of the multitudes whom death is cutting off in detail all over the country.

(CE 5/5/1847) – CLEARING THE STREETS - THE unfortunate creatures, who were lately stated to have been found huddled under the old guard house in Shandon Street, and to have been subsequently removed to the Workhouse, it appears were from the rural parish of Donoughmore. The men were employed upon the public works, but not receiving their pay regularly, their families were maintained by the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Lane, the parish priest, who, in compassion for their distress, lent them small sums for the purpose. - After the last reduction of the labourers, when they were paid up and dismissed, having no other resource, and also to avoid the shame of not paying their debts, they left the place, and came into the city. The poor of the district are now deprived of an active friend in the same clergyman, who lies in fever caught in the discharge of this clerical duties.

(CE 14/5/1847) - CITY OPPOSITION TO OUT-DOOR RELIEF - WE perceive, by the report of the meeting of the Local Board of Health held yesterday, that the MAYOR expressed his intention of calling a Public Meeting, in compliance with a requisition signed by some of the citizens, to petition against Out-door Relief. We know not the names attached to the requisition, nor any more of the matter than what we have seen in the report alluded to; but we have no hesitation in adopting the emphatic denunciation of Dr. LYONS against an intended opposition so inhuman and so cruel. - The Workhouse is filled beyond what prudence would suggest as safe to the health of the inmate, or that of the city. At most, it can shelter but a few hundreds more - while every lane in the city has its hundreds of starving poor - while every parish in the city swarms with THOUSANDS of destitute men, women, and children. - What, then, is to be done? Are the citizens of Cork, who can appear at a public meeting, to protest against giving relief to their fellow-citizens, because they are poor - because they are wasting away - because they are helpless, and at the mercy of the rich? Can it be possible that any man will publicly come forward, and oppose the only species of relief that can save thousands from death by starvation? Or; if they oppose Out-door Relief, what relief are they to substitute for it? - What is their plan? - who is to put it forth? - We write in haste; and shall, in the absence of fuller information as to the intended opposition, refer the reader to the emphatic observations of Dr. LYONS at yesterday's meeting of the Health Committee.

(CE 26/5/1847) – CORK SICK POOR SOCIETY 1847 - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER – SIR, as you are always the acknowledged advocate of the poor and suffering, I lay before you the number of fever cases I have visited on this day, 23d of May, in my walk, hoping you will give it insertion in your next publication; distributing to their wants, according to the state of our funds; the most of them having ticket of admission into the hospital. They are as follow:-

Foster’s lane in a frightful state with fever. My brother members would shock your feelings if they were to tell their tale of woe in their respective walks, - I am, Sir, yours truly, &c. TIMOTHY O CONNELL, Blacking Manufacturer, No. 10 Coal Quay, - Member of the Sick Poor Society of the North Parish.

(CE 28/5/1847) – STATE OF FEVER IN THE CITY - NUMBER IN HOSPITAL THIS MORNING

Number of Patients admitted on Books of Cork Dispensary, 200; of which number there were recommended to Fever Hospital, 79. - The additional Fever Sheds, now being erected in the Barrack Street and Cork Fever hospitals, will be completed this day or to-morrow, by which further accomodation will be given to nearly 150 patients.

(CE 21/6/1847) - FATHER MATHEW AND THE POOR OF CORK - IT is now some four weeks since the Cork District Relief Committee suspended it operations. The food depots of the city were supported by, and were under the entire management of this body, and should, as a matter of course, be closed when its functions terminated. Father Mathew, seeing the amount of destitution relieved by those establishments, and the vast misery that would ensue should they be closed at such a season, took on himself the entire responsibility of the southern depot, which, since that time, he has kept open at his own private cost, aided by the casual charities sent him by the benevolent. - A reporter from this establishment visited the depot on Saturday last, when there were between FIVE and SIX THOUSAND individuals, of both sexes, old and young, congregated in the large yard attached thereto, all eating with an avidity seldom surpassed, the wholesome and substantial food which had just been dispensed to them. Father Mathew has had erected THREE new boilers, in addition to the two already erected by the committee, in consequence of the vastly increased number of poor relieved. - The gates are kept open every day till one o'clock, when all who seek relief are indiscriminately admitted. The food distributed is composed of the best Indian meal made into 'stirabout, ' and constitutes a wholesome and nutritious article of dietary. The expense entailed by this establishment is enormous, the consumption of Indian meal amounting daily to near ONE TON-AND-A QUARTER which, with the staff required for the making and proper distribution of the food, costs over £130 per week. - We trust that Father Mathew will be liberally aided by the benevolent in this truly charitable undertaking, and that they will not allow his private resources to suffer therefrom.

(CE 12/7/1847) – THE WORKHOUSE CEMETERY - AN investigation was held on Saturday, according to adjournment, before the magistrates at Douglas Petty Sessions and an Assessor, upon information presented against Mr. George Carr, for having buried several thousand bodies at Monees, under such circumstances as to create a nuisance. A great deal of evidence was given as to the offensive and dangerous effluvia proceeding from the burial ground, which caused the road passing near to be deserted. After a consultation the Bench decided to receive informations in the case. Pressure of space excludes the report this day.

(CE 19/7/1847) – THE Operative Coopers of the City of Cork return their most sincere and grateful thanks to ALEX. M’CARTHY, Esq., MP, for the munificent sum of £50, which was chiefly the means of enabling 34 of their Body to emigrate from pauperism in Cork, to the free States of America, and which will be ever remembered, not by words, but in the hearts of a grateful class of Mechanics. They also beg to return thanks to their worthy Mayor, A. F. ROCHE, Esq., who never relaxed his charitable exertions in their behalf until he accomplished the freedom of that number of their body; - to WM. FAGAN, Esq., for whom they cannot find words to express their gratitude. In him they recognise the tried friend of the poor and destitute, not looking for the praise which this world can give, but the hope that his earthly toils may be crowned with eternal reward – which is the prayer of the Operative Coopers. To JOHN GOULD, Esq., and Brothers to whom they are under multiplied obligations not on this occasion alone, but for a number of years in this City; they have been chiefly instrumental in giving employment to the majority of the Operative Coopers and hundreds of other classes, and have liberally come forward on this occasion. To the Town Council, who have collectively subscribed the sum of £50. To the Committee of Merchants who have given the sum of £25. To the Society of Friends, who have charitably given the value of £27 of Bread Stuff. Not the Operatives alone are indebted to this Charitable Society, but the whole Irish Nation, and it will ever be remembered that in the year of the most awful calamity of pestilence and famine, they have been instrumental in saving the lives of thousands, not looking to Class or creed. They also return their sincere and best thanks for the following sums:-

(CE 18/8/1847) – TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - SIR – Permit me through the columns of your truly patriotic and independent journal, to remove an impression that is gone abroad amongst great numbers of our fellow-citizens, respecting the late struggle for nationality. We fearlessly assert, that, our whole energy (as a body) was directed for the return of two honest, independent, straight-forward Repealers, to represent us in the Imperial Parliament –men who were pledged to do all in their power to serve the commercial interests of this city, and to struggle with all their might for the independence of their country. The selection of our choice was with the majority of our fellow-citizens, who by public demonstration, set forth Mr. Fagan, and Mr. M’Carthy to fight the battle of Repeal against Whig or Tory; those were the men that we stood by – which will be seen by the number of freemen and householders who voted; and we deny having any connection whatsover with that body of poor mercenary wretches, who were banded together, waiting the moment that their votes would be wanted to make a traffic of their country, and risk their immortal souls, by taking a bribe. To be sure, they were reckless of the consequence, the bribery oath. What cared they about it? What cared they about perjury, a crime most awful in the sight of God and man? Those are the men who call themselves freemen; better for them and the community at large, that such miserable beings were never free. Out of that party, consisting of about eighty in number, about half a dozen coopers joined in that detestable knot, mean selfish fellows, that are degraded by the whole body. Those freemen would have voted for the peoples’ candidates for a choice, of the money, or a promise of the money, would be given; and be it ever to the honour of Mr. Fagan and Mr. M’Carthy, they would risk the whole contest sooner than be accessory to have one man perjure himself. They cared not for the money, but the crime they abhorred. Hoping that Mr. M’Carthy will be returned for some other part of Ireland, or if not, that he will one day represent the city of Cork, - We remain, Mr. Editor, your obliged servants, - THE COOPERS OF CORK

(CE 20/8/1847) - STATE OF FEVER IN THE CITY - NUMBER IN HOSPITAL THIS MORNING

Though we can announce but a trifling diminution in the number of Fever patients since our last report, yet we are happy in stating that the disease is of the mildest type. - Dysentery, of rather a serious character, prevails to a large extent at present in the city. - The weather continues to be exceedingly hot.

(CE 25/8/1847) – PUBLIC WATCHMEN – The complaint of a correspondent in this day’s papers against the conduct of the night watchmen, it would appear, is not confined in its justice to one locality. The general observation is, that from long enjoyed impunity these men have reached an intolerable height of boldness. The force from its abuses is become a notorious public evil, and scarcely a less terror to the peaceably disposed than the mischiefs they are employed to repress. This evil is greatly aggravated by the fact, if it be true that the corps is, maintained in pay mainly by the dread of them, if they should be disbanded. The only reason assigned for hearing with them is the danger that dismissal would only convert an unfaithful preserver of the peace into a violent disturber of it. The severest censure lies against their conduct towards destitute females, with whom they are usually either in confederation or at war. Accordingly, sometimes they refuse to prevent them from creating disturbances; and at others, their treatment of those unfortunate women is the extremity of brutal outrage. In justice it should be stated that some of the men are of excellent character, and faithfully perform their duty. But, with respect to others, it appears strange that the authorities should leave the community at the mercy of servants, whom they are obliged to regard with a feeling of fear, and are afraid to remove. From this consideration alone, the public security imperatively demands that the present system should be put down, and the establishment placed under efficient and responsible regulation. Such a change is one of the most important in the list of necessary local reforms.

(CE 27/8/1847) – TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - SIR, - Reading an article on the Examiner of Wednesday, the 18^th, signed ‘The Coopers of Cork,’ I beg leave, through your respectable journal to contradict it, and place it before the public as it ought to be. In the first place it bears the face of almost notorious FALSEHOOD. Said article never came from the Coopers of Cork, but has been got up by a party in the Trade, that calls itself Dock OFFICERS – about six or eight in number. The Coopers of Cork in general never heard of such an article, until it appeared on the public press. This wonderful production says that EIGHTY freemen banded themselves together. Now I distinctly state that up to a Hundred and Twenty Freemen and Householders met, for the purpose of selecting a Candidate of their choice, out of which number there were close to FORTY of them Coopers, not such characters as these from whom the article on the Examiner emanated. They were FREEMEN, and not BONDSMEN, men unpledged, and that would not allow themselves to be dragged as a tail to any MAN, or made tools by any party. I am also able to state without fear of contradiction that some of the same persons who call us mean, selfish fellows, desired in case we voted for Mr. Fagan and M’Carthy to put their names on our list. But, Mr. Editor, as the old saying goes, those that wear Glass Jackets ought not to be the first to throw stones. Place-hunting was the sole object of some of them – Those very men that call themselves Freemen, dare not, at the risk of their employment, vote any other way but as they have done. Now in the case of the Bribery oath, he who takes it in order to retain his employment commits, I contend, nothing short of Perjury. But one or two cases will, we think satisfy the public what description of persons the same party are, that have attempted to cast an odium on a large portion of the Electors, …. same low mercenary wretches have taken the bribery oath on different occasions, and I am able to state on whose account and by whom given. These are the description of characters I have to deal with in this reply –men whose Votes every day in the year are pinned to their Employer’s sleeve. Those are the men who call themselves Freemen. If this case be called freedom of Election, I contend that it would be better for the community at large that such freedom never existed. It is a well known fact that our votes were wanted, and had not Mr. Fagan resigned every man of one hundred and twenty of us would have registered our votes for our well known, tried respectable and commercial candidate, Mr. D. Callaghan. -Mr.Editor, your kind servants, - (Signed on behalf of the Freemen who met), - JOHN GILTINAN, Cooper - MICHAEL SCANNEL, Smith

(CE 1/9/1847) 67^TH REGIMENT - Nearly a hundred men of this Regiment, now in Cork garrison, and under orders for Gibraltar, are at present suffering from opthalmia.

(CE 6/9/1847) – NUISANCE AT LADY’S WELL FOUNTAIN – THE POLICE - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - SIR – I beg leave through the medium of your impartial journal, always the uncompromising easer of all public abuses, to call the attention of the authorities to the disgraceful scenes daily, hourly, and to a very late period of the night, enacted by the drawers of water from the Lady’s Well. As a resident in that locality, I, in common with the other respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood are daily horrified by the scenes of blasphemy and outrage perpetrated by bad women and others, from the worst purlieus of the city, and other dens of wickedness. These viragos are in the constant habit of attacking each other in the most furious manner, tearing each-others’ hair out by handfuls, and shocking all respectable females with their obscene and lewd expressions, as they fight and wrangle to obtain water. The Sabbath day is profaned in a greater degree than on a week day for on that day hundreds congregate and completely block up the road-way with their numbers, and there continue even up to the midnight hour, outraging all public decorum. Surely, Mr. Editor, such a state of things should not be allowed to exist in a land calling itself civilised. The police authorities should be active to prevent such scenes. A policeman should have his beat in that direction, where one is seldom, or never seen, and stringent measures should be adopted to do away with such outrageous conduct among those who draw water from the well. Were a policeman stationed there to preserve order, it would be a check upon vice, and is most urgently called for, for the sake of morality – I am confident those well-meant remarks will meet with attention from those in power, and the neighbourhood be shortly restored to its original quietness. - I am, Sir, your Obedient Servant, - AN INHABITANT OF THE LOCALITY - Leitrim-St., Aug. 29,1847

(CE 6/9/1847) – A Case for Sympathy – By the total destruction by fire of the house in King Street, as mentioned in our last, a respectable but now destitute tradesman, MATTHEW MURPHY has lost all he possessed in the world. MR. MURPHY was for many years employed as foreman in the tailoring establishment of the late MR. O GRADY, in Patrick-street; and for some time, he has been doing jobs on his own account, by which he was enabled to earn a decent independence, and surround himself and his family with moderate comforts. But the fruit of his industry and his careful savings have all been swept away in one day; and he and his family are now totally destitute, without clothes, and without the means of procuring them. We would direct attention to this melancholy case, as one worthy of Christian sympathy.

(CE 8/9/1847) ATTEMPT TO MURDER - About noon on Monday an alarm was created at the barracks, by the discovery of a deliberate attempt upon the part of one of the soldiers of the 67^th, to shoot a commanding officer of his regiment. It appears that as Adjutant Graham was walking across the square, and not far from the range of buildings on one side of it, a private was seen to present his musket from one of the windows where his quarters were, at the opposite side, and immediately after fired. The bullets rooted the surface of the ground, near where the Adjutant was then glancing off, entered an officer’s apartment and buried itself in the wall. The military who were present in the barracks at the time were thrown into a state of confusion and excitement by the occurrence, and the persons who had witnessed the circumstances rushed to the quarter whence the shot proceeded, where they apprehended a man upon suspicion. It is stated the examination of the different cartouche boxes left no doubt as to the person who fired. The culprit was immediately confined, to await the trail of a Court Martial. The reason which prompted him to the commission of the crime is not explained.

(CE 8/9/1847) GARRISON BALL AND SUPPER - Last night the gallant officers of the 67^th Regiment, stationed in our Garrison, entertained at a ball and supper, over three hundred of the elite of the city and county, including their brother officers stationed in the neighbouring garrisons. The rooms, which were most chastely decorated, were very brilliantly lighted with numerous wax lights and beautiful chandeliers. No expense was spared in catering for the supper table, which presented every delicacy of the season, both home and foreign. The wines, which were of the rarest and choicest qualities, consisting of Champagne, sparkling Burgundy, Claret, Madeira, Port and Sherry, were supplied, we understand, exclusively from C. Welstead’s establishment, South Mall. It is almost needless to say that nothing could exceed the courtesy and attention of the brave and gallant gentlemen to their guests. – The excellent band of the regiment, with the brass band of the 1^st Royals, was in attendance, and the dancing, which was kept up with unabated spirit during the night, did not terminate until five o clock this morning, at which time the brilliant company separated.

(CE 17/9/1847) – COMBINATION OF RAILWAY LABOURERS - A Ganger on the Great Southern and Western Railway, at the tunnel near this city, named Owen M’Carthy, was prosecuted on Monday, at the Police Court, under the Railway Act, for interfering to obstruct the progress of the works, by inciting the labourers to combination. A strike occurred upon Thursday week and was followed the next day by disturbance of the men who continued at work, caused by those who had left their employment assembling riotously and throwing stones at them. M’Carthy, who it appeared, advised the men to this conduct on the ground that their wages were too low, was sentenced to pay a fine of £5 or be imprisoned for one month. The punishment, however, was suspended, in consequence of a character he received from Head Constable Condon, who stated he had given the police force most useful assistance on former occasions in suppressing disturbances, a service which he appeared well fitted to render from the possession of a Herculean frame. Since the affair for which he was prosecuted, the works have been conducted without interruption, but it is found necessary that a police force should frequently visit the ground.

(CE 29/9/1847) – TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - SIR - Permit me to ask, through your valuable paper, the gentry and merchants of Cork, if they would aid, and help to establish, in the harbour of Cork, something like Captain Thomas and Major Beamish have done for Cosheen - viz, by advancing money to purchase the necessary gear, and getting boats sufficiently large to permit the fishermen to venture with safety further off the coast than they are accustomed at present to do. I would particularly call the attention of the Society of Friends - who last winter proved to the poor of this city that they were to them friends indeed. If some good member of their Society would undertake this, he would be doing a great good. - This winter the poor will be very badly off and any way we increase the food of the people we confer public good. Will you, Sir, publish this note, and, please God, some good man will do something to establish this valuable undertaking - let us not be waiting for Government to assist us - 'Aid yourselves and Heaven will aid you, ' - Your obedient servant, - RED HERRING

(CE 1/10/1847) – INROAD OF PAUPERS - ALREADY many of the outlets of the city begin to be thronged with groups of poor people from different parts of the country, who come in here as a sort of harbour of refuge. Their arrival must be consequent on the stoppage of harvest labour, for there is no other work for them just now. When the numbers begin so early to accumulate amongst us, a month or two will have augmented them to a serious degree; we will then have to be going over our resources, as to how we shall either feed or get rid of them. Would it not be well to take time by the forelock - venienti occurrite morbo - and see how we are to deal with the influx of paupers that now threaten from the country districts? 300 country paupers arrived the week before last to the Lee Ward, and 399 for the past week. In St. Patrick's Ward, the arrivals for the past week were 314.

(CE 22/10/1847) - STREET BEGGARS - BULL-HEADED LEGISLATION - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - SIR - I was greatly surprised to find that the commitals to our city prisons were so numerous, and that the crimes attributed to the parties were, for street begging. - We are bound by the present law to give out-door relief when the workhouse is full - not before - but surely it ought to be taken into consideration the difference in charge between the gaol and the workhouse. All persons commited for street begging to gaol, must be fed on gaol allowance - at the exclusive charge of the over-taxed citizens of Cork, while those sent to the workhouse would have the cost charged half to the landlord and half to the ratepayer; and again, the cost per head, would be much less in the workhouse to what is paid for gaol allowance. - If beggars are to be imprisoned let them be sent to the workhouse, not sent to gaol, where the allowance given acts as a premium rather than a punishment. Our Magistrates should look to this, and not add to our present taxation, which many will shortly be unable to pay. - Your obedient servant, - A SHOPKEEPER.

(CE 24/11/1847) – THE HOUSE CARPENTERS OF CORK - The whole of this body, numbering over 105, proceeded at an early hour this morning to the Barracks, where Mr. Butler, the Government Contractor, is now erecting the Military Prison. A report having been circulated, to the effect that Mr. Butler, who also had the contract for the erection of the Colleges, and the New Church of St. Nicholas, intended getting the greater portion of his carpenter’s work done in Dublin, the Carpenters waited on him to ascertain from himself if the rumour were correct. Mr. Butler most kindly received the body, and assured them that if he were certain of making 50 per cent, by sending the work out of Cork, and thus injuring the local artisans, he would not do so. He accounted for the delay in employing carpenters, by the fact of the non-arrival, for the last six months, of any sufficient quantity of Baltic timber, which was the description he required for his contracts. He stated that he had got 200 tons of it, and that as soon as it was cut up, the carpenters would be employed. The body then retired, satisfied and cheered by the promise of employment, which is sadly required by many of its members.

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(CE 5/1/1848) - MERCHANT SEAMEN’S' RELIEF SOCIETY - The annual meeting of Shipowners, Shipmasters, and Commanders of the Port of Cork was held on Monday last, at their offices, Warren's Place, for the election of Fifteen Trustees to the fund for the ensuing year. The attendance was very thin. JOSEPH M'MULLEN Esq., in the Chair - The Secretary read the following details of relief administered by the Society in the past year: -- The permanent pensioners amounted to 171, amongst whom there were 28 worn out and decrepit seamen, getting £108; two masters, £16; twelve masters' widows £48; thirty-four masters' orphans, £55; thirty-five seamen’s' widows, £70; and 60 seamen’s' orphans, £44 5s., making the annual pensions of 1847, £341 5s. - The following gentlemen were then appointed Trustees; JOHN REED, JOHN HARLEY, JOHN DAWSON, EBENEZER PIKE, HUGH POLLOCK, JAMES WRIGHT, MAURICE DALY, JOSEPH M'MULLEN, JOSHUA HARGRAVE, JOHN CARROLL, GEORGE SCOTT, ARTHUR ATTRIDGE, SEWARD LARGE, RICHARD CARR, JOSEPH WHEELER. The meeting then separated.

(CE 19/1/1848) - POLICE OFFICE-YESTERDAY - (The magistrates presiding were WILLIAM FAGAN, Esq., M.P. and THOMAS LYONS, Esq.) - MORE GLASS BREAKING - A paragraph appeared in the last Examiner which mentioned that a pane of glass had been broken the previous day in the establishment of Mr. DANIEL CROWLEY, Patrick Street. The prisoner was conveyed to the Police-office; but, on Mr. CROWLEY's refusal to prosecute, the fellow was discharged. Immediately on being released from custody, he coolly walked across the street, and broke another pane in the shop of Mr. JAMES MURPHY, nearly opposite the Police-office, from which he drew out a cloth cap that was exposed for sale. The magistrate's directed that informations should be made out for the larceny, which were accordingly furnished. - RICHARD COURTENAY, a deformed person, of the most destitute appearance, was brought up at the Police-office, charged with begging. The magistrate's sentenced the prisoner to a fortnight's imprisonment. On being questioned by the bench as to what locality he belonged, the prisoner replied that he was a native of Bandon, and that he had been apprehended in that town for begging and transmitted to the county jail. At the expiration of the term he was discharged, and, of course, his only resource was to renew, in this city, the course for which he had been convicted in Bandon. The result is that he is sent to the city jail, where he is maintained at an expense considerably greater than that of the workhouse, and the entire expense of his support falls exclusively on the city. - Another case of precisely similar character was the next brought under the consideration of the bench. A young woman, named CATHERINE BUTLER, was brought up by one of the Constables attached to Shandon Station, charged with having sought relief at the station. The prisoner stated she had been sent to the county jail, from the parish of Donoghmore, for stealing a few Carrots, and that she had been discharged from custody on the day before. As in the former case, the prisoner had no other means of subsistence than what she succeeded in obtaining from the charitable. The Bench enquired if she were discharged, would she leave this city and return home; but the prisoner replied that she had no means of reaching home, or nothing to subsist upon after arriving there. She was sentenced to a week's imprisonment, with hard labour. These are only two instances, selected from cases of hourly occurrence, in which the grievances inflicted on particular localities by the present poor law and vagrancy acts are perceptible. - By the old poor law, it was provided that in any case destitution was the test of admission; but by the law which has been lately introduced, the guardians are prohibited from affording relief to any but the natives of the union, or those whose length of location entitles them to be considered admissible. - Mr. FAGAN, M.P., has written to Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE on the subject, and forcibly detailed the grievances which accrue from the present system, and the great necessity that exists for providing some immediate and effective remedy.

(CE 31/1/1848) IRISH MANUFACTUREENCOURAGED - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - Mr. Editor--We have read with feelings of pleasure and delight on your widely circulating Journal of the 28^th Inst., not only the rapid strides Irish Manufacture is now making, but also, the very strenuous support it has met with through your exertions and ably conducted Journal; and if all Irishmen would now unite, at the eleventh hour, and use action in place of words, we would soon see the day when the Artizans and Labourers of our country would be busily employed and well able to support themselves and their families, instead of being idle, as they are at present, and starving through the land, or else driven to the Poor-house as their last and only resource; and we the undersigned are happy to say that we have witnessed the greatest anxiety and exertions of Messrs. William Treacy & Co., of Great George's Street, Cork, to promote Irish Manufacture, as we are all at present employed by him at his Factory on Lavitt's Quay, at the following Trades, viz.--Beaver and Silk Hats, Clogs and Springs, and Corker's Paste Liquid Japan and Indian Rubber Blacking, Clothing Manufactured in all its branches. We trust he will employ a great many more hands when he has more Looms fitted up, which are now in course of erection.

(CC 29/2/1848) – IRISH MANUFACTURE – We received yesterday from Mr. ARNOTT a very tasteful specimen of what may be done by the fingers of our female population. It is a purse of green silk, with representations, in gilt beads, of the Irish harp and wolfdog. The execution, though not equal in accuracy or finish, to that of the fair fingers which we have seen employed in the ornamental occupations that form the amusement of such multitudes in a different order of society, is really astonishing for the persons who were engaged on it, and who are indebted for the proficiency they possess to the instructions of a benevolent lady. We are happy to hear that in a little time, when they will have acquired more expertness, they are likely to be able to earn a comfortable livelihood, and thus to assist their families and to maintain themselves. This is one of the advantages of encouraging Irish manufacture.

(CE 15/5/1848) - GENERAL UNDERTAKING AND POSTING ESTABLISHMENT, NILE STREET, [Cork] - Mrs. MARY DRISCOLL, Widow and Representative of the Late HUGH DRISCOLL, of this city, Cabinet Manufacturer--and in returning her sincere thanks to her numerous Friends, the Nobility, Gentry and Public in general, for that kind and liberal support which they have for so many years past experienced, begs to say that it is Her intention to continue the above Branch, to which every care and attention shall be paid by those Parties employed and experienced in business during a lengthened period of years--the Drivers, &c., being men of sober and steady character. She trusts by hers and their exertions, to merit a continuance of that liberal support which for 40 years past this Establishment has merited above all others in this City, for Punctuality, Care and Despatch.- FUNERALS supplied as usual, with the same respectability and attention, at No. 10 Broad Lane. A Large Heap of Stable Manure for Sale. Mrs. D. begs to say, that She will feel much obliged by an early settlement of all Accounts due to the above Establishment.

(CE 22/5/1848) – FIRE - On Friday night a fire occurred in the spirit store of Mr. DWYER, Shandon-street, owing, as it was ascertained, to the negligence of a servant, in placing a light near the curtains of a bed, when retiring to sleep. The engine of the Atlas company arrived shortly after the alarm was given, and with the copious supply of water furnished by the fountain near, was worked so effectually, that the flames were prevented from spreading beyond the uppermost story. A servant and child who happened to be in that part of the house, and were too alarmed or unable to descend, made their escape out upon the adjoining roof, whence they were rescued by the intrepidity of Constable PORTER.

(CE 22/5/1848) - ACCIDENT ON THE CORK, BLACKROCK AND PASSAGE RAILWAY--TWO MEN KILLED - An accident, accompanied with loss of life, occurred on Saturday last at 12 o'clock, on the above line. At the hour mentioned several men were engaged in excavating on Mr. SPENCER's ground, Blackrock, adjacent to the Church; and, having undermined a bank earth too much, it fell, burying three of them. Assistance was immediately procured, and in a short time the three men were extricated, but not unfortunately before one, DANIEL MAHONY, was killed. The other two, THOMAS CONNELL and JOHN REILY, were conveyed to the South Infirmary, where Drs. HOBART, TANNER and MEREDITH, house surgeon, were in immediate attendance; but CONNELL, who had a compound fracture of the leg, and who also received severe internal injuries, expired in a short time subsequently. REILY, who is a very young man, had a leg and arm broken, but is coming on very favourably. - MARTIN MAHONY, a miner, who whilst engaged at blasting at the Tunnell, of the Great Southern and Western Railway, on Wednesday last, received a compound fracture of the leg, also lies in the same Institution, and is progressing favourably. Indeed, all that skill, attention, cleanliness and thorough ventilation can do towards the recovery of patients is done in this Institution.

(CC 23/5/1848) INQUESTS – ALARMING ACCIDENT – An inquest was held yesterday at the Police Barracks, Blackrock, on the body of Daniel Mahony, who was killed on Saturday by the falling of an embankment on the Cork and Passage Railway. - A man of the name of Michael Garvan was taken into custody on the day of the accident, charged with having precipitated the falling of the bank by striking it on the top with a crow-bar. - Wm. Murphy, on being sworn, deposed to the fact of having seen the deceased at work under the bank, and of having at the same time seen Michael Garvan ‘sledging’ a crow-bar into the top of it. The bank fell shortly after, and crushed the deceased with some others beneath it. - Jeremiah Linehan deposed that he had been working under the bank with the deceased, and that in his opinion the bank could not have fallen had it not been struck by Garvan. He knew that Garvan was at work on the top of the bank, and suspected danger, but did not mention his suspicions to anyone. - Garvan – Did you hear me cry out ‘war-out’? (an expression of warning when danger is apprehended). I did not, - To the Coroner – Never had any difference with Garvan, nor do I know of his family having spite to anyone. - A few other witnesses were also examined, and one of them stated that he had heard the cry of ‘war-out,’ but could not say if it was the prisoner who made use of the expression. - The jury found a verdict of accidental death, and the prisoner was accordingly discharged. - In addition to the deceased Mahony, on whom the inquest was held, two other poor men, named Connell and Reily, were also sufferers. These men were immediately removed to the South Infirmary, where every surgical aid was afforded. Connell expired subsequently, but Reily, who had an arm and a leg broken, is progressing favourably.

(CC 6/6/1848) ARMY REPORT - (Excerpt) - Lieut. Col. Chesney, R.A., Ballincollig, has terminated his tour of inspection of the Forts in this harbour and Kinsale. The company of Royal Artillery doing duty in Spike, Camden, Haulbowline, and Rocky Island, are under the command of Capt. Turner, son of Major-General Turner, commanding this district. - A strong draft of the 72^nd (Duke of Albany’s own Highlanders) arrived in town, on Friday, to join the Regiment in the West Indies. - Of the troops composing this garrison, consisting of the 8^th Hussars, 26^th Cameronians, 44^th, and 70^th Regiment, there are only two officers connected with them who were present at the battle of Waterloo – Colonel Lord John Seaton, G.C.B., G.C.M.G, and G.C.H., of the Cameronians, and Captain George Frederick Paschal appointed to the 70^th, March 1826. Of these distinguished regiments the only one at Waterloo was the 44^th. This regiment also served creditably in Egypt, Badajos, Salamanca, Bladensburg, and Ava. The 44^th, it may be remembered, was the corps that received such a fearful cutting up in Afghanistan. This regiment has two battalions – the first is stationed at Malta, and the second is under orders for the same place. The 8^th Hussars had some severe and victorious fighting at the campaigns of Leswarres and Hindostan, where they gallantly assisted in securing peace and extending British power in the East. The 26^th were also in Egypt, served at the battle of Corunna, and latterly in China, where their services tended towards the triumphant success of British valour.

(CC 18/7/1848) –THE ARMY - The Head quarters of the 8^th Royal Irish Hussars, under command of Lieut. Col. Shewell, left Ballincollig this morning, and will arrive here about half past nine o clock for Watergrasshill, en route for Newbridge. Capt. Thompson’s troop stationed in Ballincollig, will leave tomorrow, and Capt. Longmore’s troop in Cork Barracks will move on Saturday; both troops for the above destination. - The Head quarters of the 12^th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’ own) are expected this day, and will take up their quarters in Cork garrison. The Riding Master (Cornet Williams), late of the 10^th Hussars, and the young horses and recruits will be transferred from Cork Barracks to Ballincollig. For the information of the Cork musical public it may be well to state, that the band of the Lancers perform on the ‘reed’ in addition to their brass instruments. The master, an English man, is reported to be one of the finest cornopean players of the day.

(CE 20/9/1848) - RAILWAY ACCIDENT - A labourer named TIMOTHY MURPHY died on Sunday at the North Infirmary, in consequence of injuries received from an explosion on the Great Southern and Western Railway, at Blarney.

(CE 5/6/1848) - RESCUE FROM DROWNING - An accident occurred on Friday evening last which, were it not for timely aid, would certainly have been attended with loss of life. Two young lads about seven o'clock were rowing in a small punt, the tide being then nearly full, when, owing to some mismanagement, it upset, throwing both boys into the water, one of whom swam ashore; but the other being unable to swim, sank twice before he grasped the boat, which was turned bottom upwards; however, even this went down under his weight, and he would assuredly have perished, were it not for the presence of mind of Mr. T. LYNCH, a Printer connected with this Office, who on hearing the alarm, rowed to the spot in his boat, and succeeded in rescuing the unfortunate boy, from what a minute before seemed inevitable death.

(CE 5/6/1848) - SUDDEN DEATH - A Tailor named LYNCH, who had lately rendered himself rather prominent in representing the grievances of the body with which he was connected, on some occasions that he conceived their rights were interfered with, died suddenly on yesterday. The unfortunate man had been drinking for several weeks back, and, it was supposed that death resulted from the continuous gratification of this propensity.

(CC 4/7/1848) – LAUNCH OF A STEAMER – LOCAL MANUFACTURE – Saturday evening witnessed the launch, at Hargrave’s Quay, Brickfields, of an iron screw-propelled vessel, the Gannet, an auxiliary steam-ship for the Cork Steam Company, She is built entirely of iron, and is of 460 tons burthen, with engines on the direct action principle, of 80 horse power. She is on the keel 160 feet in length, and over all 176 feet; depth of hold 25 feet, 6 inches; breath of beam, 15 feet. She has a splendid cabin, handsomely fitted up in the Elizabethan style, capable of accommodating 36 passengers. She was designed by MR. JAMES CASSIDY, and, as a specimen of local manufacture, is as creditable a piece of workmanship as any port in England could boast of. To MR. PIKE, the enterprising manager of the Cork Steam Company, is due the credit of shewing to the country the capabilities of native art and talent. Every part of the Gannet, even to the manufacture of her engines, is the work of the men employed by that gentleman. The rich and elaborate carvings, and the beautiful figure head, have been put out of hands in his iron building yard. She is the first steam propelled vessel completed in this port, and the second built in the same yard – the first being the Blarney, launched about two years ago, and since trading successfully between this port, Liverpool and Harve. CAPTAIN D. SULLIVAN, who so skilfully commanded the Blarney, is appointed Captain of the Gannet. By a curious coincidence, CAPTAIN SULLIVAN, who is nephew to the late CAPTAIN O BRIEN, both natives of this city, commands the first steamer built in Cork, while the latter gentleman was the first to introduce, more than 30 years since, a steam boat on the Cork river – the City of Cork. At quarter past five o clock every thing was in readiness for the launch. The vessel was tastefully decorated with many coloured flags and streamers, and she moved off the ways amidst the shouts of the spectators, firing of cannon, &c., and in two or three minutes was safely hauled into dock to the evident satisfaction of the crowds that had assembled. - The concerns of MR. PIKE are the most extensive in Cork, and occupy several acres. Commodious workshops are built in all directions, and one of cut stone is in course of erection. Hundreds of mechanics and boys are busily employed in ship building. The weekly wages paid by MR. PIKE amount to £200! In one of the smithies are a number of fires for forging iron, the blowers being worked by a steam engine. In the same building are a ponderous shears and punch, which cut iron half an inch thick, into every shape, with as much ease as scissors cut paper. It also punches inch iron with the greatest rapidity and correctness. Another department was confined to the making of steam engines, and those for the Gannet were nearly completed. An upper loft is devoted to designs and models. In a third building a body of workmen were busily engaged in the manufacture of boilers. The expertness displayed by these men in riveting the iron plates together, the expedition with which it is done, and the neatness of the burr of the rivet when completed, are remarkable. In this building are new and capacious boilers, just finished, and intended for the Ocean steamer. Such are a few of the works now in progress in these extensive concerns. MR. PIKE, is affording such general employment, and introducing such an important trade in this city, deserves to be ranked as one of our best public benefactors. It is stated to be his intention, as soon as he can complete the necessary preparations, to build a paddle steamer for the English trade. Formerly, to effect the most trifling repairs in a steamer it was necessary to send her to England or Scotland; not only can such repairs be done in Cork, but the steamers of any burthen can be built in this city, which equals those made in any other port.

(CE 23/8/1848) - FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE - About the hour of half-past twelve on Monday night, a man named GARRETT BARRY, a publican, occupying a house in Clarence Street was engaged in conveying whiskey from a cask into smaller vessels, when a cat, which belonged to the house, ran across the place where he was engaged, and knocked a candle into the whiskey, the flames from which speedily communicated themselves to the furniture of the apartment. The fire raged with considerable fury for some time, and as there was a cooperage immediately attached to the rere of the house, it was apprehended that the fire migh[t] proceed beyond the house where it originated. Shortly after the accident was made known, a person named SHORT, a shoemaker, and a man named BUCKLEY came to the assistance of BARRY, and entered the house for the purpose of assisting in the removal of the furniture. After remaining inside for a short time, SHORT and BUCKLEY found the heat of the burning building so oppressive that they considered it necessary to effect an immediate retreat. BUCKLEY escaped from the house with his legs burned severely but his companion was not so fortunate. He ran to a window at the rere of the premises, and endeavoured to get through it, but the smoke and heat compelled him to relinquish the attempt. Constables PORTER, GEALE and GRAHAM were shortly after in attendance and their exertions were immediately directed to the rescue of the unfortunate man, who had so generously risked, and ultimately sacrificed, his life. Through the activity and perseverance of the Police, the man was enabled to escape from his awful position; and arrangements were instantly made for his removal to the North Infirmary, where he expired at four o'clock next morning. An inquest was held on yesterday, at which it appeared that the deceased had left a wife and six children and a verdict was returned according to the circumstances. - The Atlas engine was in attendance, and mainly contributed to the preservation of the adjoining premises.

(CE 13/9/1848) - Mr. WILLIAM RIORDAN, Mallow-Lane, appeared at the Police Office on Monday, for the purpose of requiring informations against a Mr. MURPHY, who resides in Great George's Street, for obstructing some men whom he had employed to repair his house. Mr. RIORDAN stated that, on Saturday week, a quantity of lead, for the second time, was stolen off his premises; the thieves were captured and convicted. The wall which was injured on the occasion was a party wall, and all he required of Mr. MURPHY was that he should pay its share of the expenses, and admit the persons employed to repair it in the same manner as the thieves had contrived to obtain admission. He (Mr. RIORDAN) was quite ready to discharge his share of the responsibility, though it was through Mr. MURPHY's premises the robbery had been perpetrated. Mr. MURPHY consented to agree to the terms suggested by Mr. RIORDAN, and the parties retired.

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(CE 12/1/1849) ALLEGED COMBINATION AND CONSEQUENT OUTRAGES - On Tuesday night the house of some of the Boot and Shoemakers of this City were attacked, and several panes of glass demolished; and a few nights before, some of the journeymen who had rendered themselves obnoxious to the general body, by compliance with the terms offered by the employers, were assaulted, and … stated in one instance severely beaten. For some time back considerable dissatisfaction and distrust have existed between the employers and operatives of this trade – the former allowing that the workmen are demanding wages which they could not afford to pay; and the other asserting that the employers are endeavouring to reduce a rate of wages, which, at present, only enables them to sustain existence. A man named Magrath was arrested by the watchman of George’s-street, after the attack on the house in that street, and identified as one of the party who had committed the outrage. The prisoner was brought before Mr. Spearing on Wednesday, but he considered the case of sufficient importance, to require the presence of a second magistrate. The prisoner was brought before the bench yesterday, when His Worship, Andrew Spearing and Henry Morrogh, Esqrs. Were present. The police office was crowded by the tradesmen interested in the proceeding; and Mr. Blake, George’s-street; Mr. Reardon, Winthrop-street; and Mr. Lanphier, George’s-street, employers in this trade, were in attendance. Mr. Scannell appeared as Counsel for the employers and Mr. Pierce Fitzgerald attended for the prisoner. After a lengthened discussion it was suggested by Mr. Scannell, that the difference existing between the employers and tradesmen should be left to the arbitration of the Mayor, with which arrangement all parties appeared satisfied. It was arranged, in the event of non-agreement in the terms of the arbitrator, that the prisoner should be called up, and the case as it first appeared, proceeded with.

(CE 9/7/1849) PROTECTION TO FEMALES - TO MAJOR GENERAL TURNER - SIR – I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject, which, addressed to a Christian soldier placed in authority requires no apology from me.

Amongst the many societies established for the amelioration of the condition of our fellow creatures, one has lately been formed in London, called the protection of women society which aims chiefly at the prevention of seduction of young women, and we learn that through the instrumentality of that society onwards of three hundred brothels and reception houses have been abated and closed up. You are also well aware that some of the members connected with that society have, in both houses of parliament, introduced a bill to afford further facilities for the very praiseworthy object, not however without opposition, not to the principal of the bill, but because it is thought that the laws as they exist are fully sufficient, if enforced, to protect from all the wiles and arts generally employed to bring to fruit young and inexperienced females.

Our own city is, I am grieved to say, sadly in want of some such society; for there are few cities of the size where more young females have been brought to ruin, than Cork; a great proportion of whom have been first led from the paths of virtue by being entrapped into the Cork Barracks.

It is not my intention to open afresh the wounds of many a widowed mother, bereaved of a daughter, probably lost to her forever, and sunk in the paths of infamy and vice, by alluding to what has heretofore occurred; but I appeal to you, who no doubt have the power, to abate the nuisance as it at present exists.

I am convinced the non-commissioned officers and privates are in a great measure free from those vices which so pre-eminently distinguish their superiors; and I believe every regulation is enforced to make them so; and it only requires that the same rule should be applied to all, to the apartments of officers equally as privates to prevent the nightly scenes of immorality which occur in quarters provided at public expense.

Besides the number of Ladies who reside at present in barracks (some of whom have been brought from the lowest brothels in Cork) and have free ingress and egress at the gates, there are nightly three or four cars full admitted, amongst which there may be often some, who for the first time are enticed to their ruin – This is a sad state of things amongst a class of men who are the normal protectors of the public. The privacy with which a young girl may be got in, and kept in barrack quarters, is a great evil, and undoubtedly a very great inducement to err.

I call on you, then, as a man who must hereafter give an account of his stewardship, to forbid all such females entering barrack-quarters, or even going within the gates; and if those gentlemen must indulge their vicious propensities oblige them to do so at their own expense and you will have done much in furtherance of the objects of the society to which I have alluded, and have restored your barracks departments to the purposes for which they were intended, and also enable the wives of officers, who are now in most instances obliged to lodge elsewhere, to return to their husband’s quarters without the fear of having their delicacy offended by being within the same walls with those unfortunate women.

I have addressed you thus publicly, through the press, because this is a subject in which the public are deeply concerned, and I have, for the present, studiously avoided alluding to any particular or violent case, trusting that enough has been said to put a stop to this crying evil.

When we see the exertions making in other places for the protection of female virtue, it is high time that we should commence at home. You have the power to do much good in this good work, and a little enquiry will satisfy you that I have in no wise given you an exaggerated statement, and though I have only spoken of the Cork barracks because of it being head-quarters, I believe every barracks in your district requires a thorough reformation in this respect. – I have the honour to be your very obedient servant, - PROTECTOR - Cork, 3^rd July, 1849

(CE 15/8/1849) - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER – SIR – I was somewhat surprised to find, in the Examiner of the 10^th inst., an extract without comment from the Freeman’s Journal, condemnatory of the appointment of the Rev. W. Hincks, to the chair of Natural History, in the Queen’s College, Cork. The writer seems to claim as a discovery, that Mr. Hincks is a Unitarian Minister (I presume he means, in common with many others, who are ignorant of the history of his religious opinions, when he calls him a Socinian,) and that he was the Editor of the Inquirer newspaper. That he was not so styled in the list of professors, I presume, was because his peculiar religious opinions were not a ground for his election to the Professorship. Those qualifications which did not imply his fitness for the office were given, viz., his former position of Professor in the Manchester College, York – his authorship of original papers on Botanical Science, and his membership of the Linnaean Society; for the ‘LLD,’ was simply a misprint for ‘FLS.’ - If the religious opinions were not a ground of qualification, neither were they, very wisely and justly, deemed a disqualification. Had the Chair in question been that of moral philosophy or even history, I should not have been much surprised at the religious objections – for it would be difficult for a Unitarian lecturer on these subjects to avoid being biased in his teachings by those principals of free inquiry and disregard of outward infallibilities which have always characterised ‘a sect everywhere spoken against.’ But I was not prepared to understand how the teaching of Natural History – sciences depending upon the observation of phenomena perceptible by the five senses and upon the application thereto of the well-known and universally acknowledged laws if inductive reasoning, - could be affected by the religious opinions of the teacher. I never heard of Unitarian Botany or Trinitarian Zoology; though I have heard of eminent Unitarian botanists and zoologists, such as Sir J. E. Smith, Drs. Drummond, Allman, Carpenter &c., whose high attainments in those respective branches of natural history will be admitted by the most orthodox of their scientific brethren. - If the writer pursues his principle to its legitimate consequences, we shall next hear of him anathematising Newton’s theory of the universe, or Locke’s mental philosophy, or Milton’s paradise lost – on the ground that those immortal men, being Unitarians, could not be ‘safe guides to Catholic youth.’ He would soon swell his ‘Index Expurgatories’ to a bulk which would be felt alike inconvenient, distasteful, and dangerous, by the wise and more truly Catholic members of his Church – who would be induced to put a ‘Caput Mortuum’ upon his vagaries, and ‘render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.’ – I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. WHITELEGGE

(CE 15/8/1849) TOWN COUNCIL (Excerpt) -….called the attention of the Mayor to the prevalence of cholera in the Cork Garrison, and concluded with a request that the vegetable market at present held in front of the Barrack-gate would be immediately removed. The matter was referred to the market committee, who were also instructed to look out for a proper site to which to remove the vegetable market.’

(CE 20/8/1849) – DEATH OF MR. JOHN MAGUIRE – Mr. John Maguire (father of the Proprietor of this Journal) died, at his house, Summer Hill, at 4 o clock on Friday morning. He fell a victim to the mysterious epidemic which so mercilessly rages. His illness was scarcely of twenty hours’ duration; but he was ready for the solemn change from life to death. He could not be taken unawares; for his long life was but a preparation for meeting ‘his Father and his God.’ The practice of the Christian religion was the great business of his existence; and when his hour came, he could truly exclaim ‘ You see with what heroism a Christian can die.’ For fifty years he was known in this city, and during that period, industry and honesty were his honourable characteristics. His moral and mercantile character was without blemish. Wherever the example ofpiety could lead, he was there – wherever charity was to be practised, he was not found wanting. He was rewarded by respect and confidence outside doors, and love at home. In his habits, he was unobtrusive and simple. His chiefest virtue was good practical common sense. His judgement was sound. He measured everything by the standard of reason and justice, not allowing his mind to be swayed by prejudice. As in his domestic relations he was amiable, so in his love for his country he was sincere as he was zealous. The afflictions of the people saddened his spirit, and their terrible scourgings, by famine, fever, or misrule, used to make his heart sick. In all the relations of life he was estimable. Living, he was loved as an honest man; in his grave, his memory is cherished as that of a good Christian. - As a particular mark of respect to the memory of the deceased gentleman, the Cork Packet Company’s vessels, as well as several others in the river, had their flags half-mast high. - *** This obituary was purposely left out of Friday’s impression on account of the illness of Mr. John Francis Maguire, who had been labouring under an attack of the same disease, and who had been seized on the same night and hour with his father. The shock would have been more than he could bear, under the circumstances. We are now happy to state that he has quite recovered, and is able to resume his duties. Mr. John Francis Maguire was attended by Dr. Curtin, and treated under the peculiar system of that gentleman.

(CE 3/10/1849) – THE ARMY – Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeny, KCB, and GCH Commander of the Forces in Ireland, is making a tour or inspection of the Troops in the South of Ireland. He arrived in this garrison on Saturday last from Limerick, where he inspected the troops there stationed. He inspected the corps in this garrison on Monday, in the Camp-field, consisting of the 12^th Royal Regiment of Lancers, 26^th (Cameronians) Regt. of foot, and the 41^st (Welsh) Regt. of foot. Those fine corps having assembled on the ground, were put through a variety of evolutions in quick and slow time, much to their own credit and that of their officers, and the greater satisfaction of the gallant general, who passed a high eulogium on their steadiness, discipline and solider-like appearance. - The gallant general proceeded from here to Spike Island to inspect the buildings, works, &c. of that station; he will proceed from there to Clonmel…..…The Queen, freight ship, with Captain Brook’s and Cox’s companies of the 75^th regiment, which sailed from the Cove of Cork on the 28^th April (being the first division that embarked) arrived at Calcutta on the 4^th August last, after a delightful passage, not a single accident having occurred to mar their tranquil flight across the ocean depths…

(CE 3/10/1849) – O CONNELL MONUMENT – TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER – DEAR SIR – Permit me, through the medium of your useful journal, to enquire of the Treasurer of the O Connell Monument Fund what has been done with that portion of it collected in Cork? Or how is it to be disposed of, if not yet appropriated? Rumours concerning it, of various kinds, are afloat amongst us. Some say it is to go in forwarding the decoration of Father Mathew’s New Church in some monumental shape – others, that the Town Hall, if ever built, is to be graced by a statue of the Liberator; while others again fix its future erection on the pedestal now so clumsily occupied by old George II, when his crutch term of tottering existence expires. - As for my part, now that a beautiful spire is about to be erected in our Cathedral, it is my opinion, as well as the opinion of all the collectors and subscribers I spoke to, that such would be the fittest place for a monument to O Connell. - At all events, the collectors and contributors ought to be consulted. From the Lee Ward, as treasurer, I gave a check for about £40 of £50 in the summer of ’47, and my fellow-labourers are as anxious (indeed it is now high time) to get some final and positive information on the subject. – Yours very truly, BERNARD SHEEHAN, Lee Ward, Sept., 30, 1849

(CE 15/10/1849) THE BLACKPOOL OPERATIVE WEAVERS - WE, the OPERATIVE COTTON WEAVERS at a Meeting held in Blackpool, on THURSDAY, October 11^th, for the purpose of returning Thanks to all our Friends, for their united support in behalf of ourselves and families, and in a Special manner, gratefully to acknowledge the sympathy and kindness of the Rev. WILLIAM O SULLIVAN, and the Ladies’ Clothing Society, in Patronising and Advocating the Cause of Native Manufacture, trampling over the gaieties and emotions which this World is subject to, and thus establishing the foundation of everlasting felicity which good works are ever entitled to. The Guardians of the Cork Union are also entitled to our best thanks for their preference of Cork Goods to any other, thereby giving a large amount of employment to the poor Citizens, and saving taxation, which should otherwise follow a state of idleness. There is also the respectable Firm of Messrs. LYONS & CO., to whom we cannot sufficiently express our feelings of gratitude, for they came like the Angel of Mercy, to rescue us from becoming inmates of the Union House. Our Trade would have become extinct some years ago, only that they kindly consented to bring over Cotton, and sold it at Tenpence per Ib less than it was selling for at that time, which enabled us to compete with the foreigner. From that time until the Famine set in, we ran out of our little stock, and were about to give up the ghost, when we found a friend in the same Respectable Firm, by getting superior utensils for us, and becoming Manufactures, giving us more earning that we had these last 20 years, and by their weaving they are giving bread to over 100 persons. We hope and trust their Fellow Citizens will thank them and that others will follow their generous example, and thus save the City from heavy taxation and ruin. We further assert with truth, that we could never proceed only for MR. MARTIN HAYES, who refused no pains, and spared no labour to complete the entire work, by bringing patterns and Cotton to match them together with the tackling. Our sincere prayers shall be offered for all such, and for the Conversion of others to the Cause of Home Manufacture, so as to make Ireland the Land of Trade and Labour, and not a Land of Union Workhouses.

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Fever Hospital	208	Vacancies	37
North Infirmary	120	Do.	0
Cat's Fort	111	Do.	3
Total in Hospital	568	Total Vacancies	44

Name	Amount	Name	Amount	Name	Amount
Beamish & Crawford	3.0.0	Fitzgerald, G.	0.2.6	Murphy, Pat.	0.5.0
Buckley, Wm.	0.2.6	Hewitt, Henry, Esq.	2.0.0	Myles, David	0.5.0
Carroll, J. & B.	1.0.0	Hickey, Denis	0.5.0	Noonan, Daniel	0.5.0
Cashin, ___	0.5.0	Hurley, James	0.5.0	Noonan, W.	0.5.0
Cavanagh, T.	0.5.0	Lane, D., & Co.	3.0.0	Russell, James	1.0.0
Cottrell, Charles	1.0.0	Lane, Denny, Esq.	1.0.0	Scanlon, L.	0.5.0
Deaves Brothers	3.0.0	Lyons, Thos., & Co.	3.0.0	Shea, John	0.5.0
Deyos, Joseph	0.5.0	Mason, George	1.0.0	Sheehan, Bernard	0.5.0
Dunbar, Josh.	1.0.0	Mathew, T., Very Rev.	2.0.0	Wise, Thos. & J.	2.0.0
Fagan, William	3.0.0	Maultby, H.	0.10.0	Wright & Morgan	1.0.0

Cork Fever Hospital	179	Vacancies	22
North Infirmary	163	- - -	15
Barrack Street	235	- - -	10
Catsfort	113	- - -	22
North Fever Sheds	96	- - -	18

Total in Hospital	786	Vacancies	69

Bland, Daniel	Connor, Joseph	Donoghue, Patrick	Kelly, Michael	Manly, Ellen	O Brien, Michael jun.
Bland, George	Creedon, Denis	Donoghue, Thomas	Kelly, Pat	McCoy, Kate	Punch, Thomas
Callaghan, Daniel	Creedon, Margaret	Donoghue, Thomas	Kelly, Patrick	Murphy, Mary	Sullivan, Catherine
Callaghan, Daniel	Creedon, Patrick	Flynn, Jerry	Leary, John	O Brien, Bridget	Sullivan, Daniel
Callaghan, Daniel	Creedon, W.	Flynn, Pat	Leonard, Denis	O Brien, Cornelius	Sullivan, Daniel
Connell, Ellen	Crowley, John	Gleeson, Adam	Lynch, Denis	O Brien, Johanna	Sullivan, Eugene
Connell, James	Donoghue, Edward	John Crean, John	Lynch, Eugene	O Brien, John	Supple, John
Connell, John	Donoghue, John	John Cronin, John	Lynch, Honora	O Brien, Mary	Therry, John
Connell, Michael	Donoghue, Michael	Kelleher, John	Mahony, John	O Brien, Michael	Walsh, Mary

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