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Date(s)
- 3 June 1884 - 21 January 1952 (Creation)
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1 Box (5 Files, 5 Items)
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Scope and content
Creator: Rosminian Order, St. Joseph's, Ferryhouse
This sub-fond is divided into five files and five items. It contains the house diaries from 1884 to 1948, the rules and regulations for industrial schools in the Irish Free State, the particulars of new boys and admissions and discharges. The file also contains a memorial or agreement from the Chief Secretary of Ireland at the time Gerald Balfour allowing the Order at Ferryhouse to increase the accommodation from one hundred and fifty to two hundred. The first file contains correspondence and an agreement regarding the trusteeship of a fund to cloth, feed and educate two boys in the institution. The second file contains receipts for grave plots in the cemetery in Clonmel. The third file contains documents from Musgraves regarding that company supplying Ferryhouse with the means to heat water. The fourth file contains documentation relating to the death of Father Thomas Buckley. The fifth file contains correspondence from Henry Shannon. The sixth file contains correspondence from the Department of Lands regarding an ornamental grove at Ferryhouse. The seventh and final file contains miscellaneous material.