1881
Henry Leech. 21 years. Charge Attendant and Bandsman. Appointed 3.6.1881. Resigned 8.4.85. Henry married Lizzie Gaynor – also on the staff – on 22 October 1884. His father was Henry who was a cook. Her father was Patrick who was a tram conductor.
David Hennessy 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed 5.9.1881. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.12.93. Pension 11.97. David married Kate McAulliffe of 24 College Road on 10th Oct 1894 at St Finbarr’s West Church in Cork No 7 District. His father, David, was a farmer.
William B McNamara Appointed 6.5.81. 20 years old. Clerk. Died 4.10.1912. Granted a pay rise in July 1897 of £15 bring him to the top of the pay-scale of £260. He lived in the Mile House – which was on the grounds.
Kate McNamara. Appointed 2.9.1881. 28 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Hall Maid . Promoted Head attendant.
Mary Lynch. Appointed 1.7.1881. 22 years. 1st Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 12. 1890. Pensioned 10.12.1901.
1882
Henry Kelly Hall Porter – Appointed 16.4.1882
Alfred Jarvis Appointed 25.11.1882
John Twait. Appointed 13.12.1882
Dr. John A Mitchell. Appointed 1.5.82. 1st Assistant to the RMS. Resigned 11.2.98 to fill RMS position at Waterford Asylum
Osmund Dunn appointed bandmaster – he left in 1899.
1883
British Medical Journal. March 3 1883
Cork District Lunatic Asylum
…. besides ordinary amusements, the opera Patience was performed by the Cork Amateur Dramatic Society and afforded the greatest enjoyment to five hundred patients. Dr Eames, in his report, states that he hopes the governors of the asylum may approve of and encourage similar entertainments in the future as he considers nothing is more calculated to restore the condition of those suffering from such a distressing malady as insanity….
Martin Foley. Appointed 5.3.1883
John Pendrose. Appointed 14.3.1883
Thomas Wilson. Appointed 2.5.1883
Hugh Barrett. Appointed 5.5.1883 (resigned, went to London)
William Smith. Appointed 9.5.1883
Hanora Walsh Cook. Appointed 15.4.1883
William O’Shea 26 years Tailor. Appointed 15.10. 83. Pension 18.8.1913
Bridget Geraghty. Appointed 2.10. 1883. 17 years. Promoted Charge Attendant 8.1890. Pensioned 14.5.1902.
1884
Bernard Carroll. 42 years. Appointed 20.1.1884. Promoted Charge Attendant 15.7.91. Pension July 96
John Baldwin. 26 years Painter. Appointed 3.11.1884. Pension 20.2 1922
Ann Murphy. Appointed 21.8.1884. 22 years. Promoted Charge Attendant November 1897. Resigned 13.3.1902.
Julia O’Brien. Appointed 4.3.1884. 19 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Head Attendant £.1895. Left 2.3.1897
1885
Henry Dwyer. 22 years Plumber. Appointed 2.3.1885. Management Committee recommended “…. that Plumber Dwyer’s pay be increased to the maximum of present scale to £60, an increase of £6. Taking the responsibilities connected with his post into account, this man cannot be granted the same amount of leave as the other tradesmen…” (28.9.1899). Resigned 18.2.08. Died 25.5.15.
Henry married Mary Healy – also on the staff – on 11 February 1890. He describes himself as a Fitter. He lists his address as the Eglinton Asylum. His father, Myles is a shoemaker. Mary’s father is a farmer. He lived in Strawberry Hill.. In 1914 he got a stroke and was admitted to the Hospital where he died.
Patrick J Roche; Appointed 5.4.85. 32 years old. Assistant Clerk. Died 8.5.1897
Ellen Murphy. Appointed 2.3.1885. 24 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st class Attendant July 1890. Promoted Charge attendant May 1895.
Ann Hogan. Appointed October 1885. 23 years. Hall Maid. Died 7.8.1899
1886
The British Medical Journal. September 18 1886
Cork District Lunatic Asylum
Between the death of Dr Eames and the appointment of his successor, Dr Dwyer, an interval of two months occurred; and during this period, the duties of RMS of this asylum were performed by Dr Oakshott, Assistant Physician. The Governors at a recent meeting passed a resolution testifying their entire satisfaction with the zeal and attention with which Dr Oakshott attended to the duties of RMS, and it is expected that a sum of £25 will be presented to him in recognition of his services.
Denis Cahill was appointed as Land Steward in August 1886. He remained in the job until his death in 1906.
1887
John Barry. Appointed 4.10.1887
James Wall. Appointed 6.10.1887
Edward Haughton. Appointed 6.10.1887
John Shea. Appointed 19.9.1887
Ger McCarthy. Appointed 21.10.1887
Charles Burns. Appointed 1.12.1887
William Henry Garess. Appointed 29.1.1887
George Michell. Appointed 18.2.1887
Owen Victory 32 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Appointed 10.7.1887. Died 14.2.97. In March 1897 the Board proposed that Owen’s widow be left in charge of the back lodge of the hospital and granted rations for fuel, light and washing.
Michael Casey; 36 years. 1st Class Attendant. Appointed 4.4.1887. Retired 22.2.97
1888
Rev M Kerr; Presbyterian Chaplain. 9.2.88. Died 6.2.1900
1889
Edward Sheridan. Appointed 3.9.89. 34 years Blacksmith. Promoted 1st Class Attendant April 97. Pension 4.5.07
1890
“…the staff compliment of that year [1890] was 13 officers, 54 male Attendants and 42 females. ….. this, the Inspectors considered to be inadequate as there was now over 1000 patients in the Asylum….”
Hanora Henry; Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital, Cork. Page 175
In relation to the male staff of the hospital, the Inspector of Lunatics said…
“….Amongst the Attendants we saw several whose physical size did not appear to us to render them equal to due performance of their duties in taking charge of the insane… when we questioned this we were informed that they were bandsmen….”
John Greig. Appointed 16.6.1890. 35 years Clerk of Works. Resigned October 1908. Died March 1928
Ellen Murphy. Appointed 7.1890. 36 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Pensioned 9.7.1901
Mary Sheppard. Appointed 2.1890. 19 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Hall Maid October 1891. Left to get married 2.4.1901.
Mary Kinnefick. Appointed 7.1890. 20 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant September 1893. Left to be married 20.11.1906. Mary married Francis Matthew Hunter – also on staff – on 24 Jan 1907. His father, Matthew – deceased – was a policeman. Mary lived at 4 Lee Road. Her father, William- deceased – was a builder. The wedding was witnessed by Cornelius Hayes and Julian Hayes.
Ann McCarthy. Appointed June 1890. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 8.1893. Promoted Charge Attendant 10. 1894. Resigned 13.8.1896.
1891
John Lane. 30 years. Shoemaker. Appointed 1.3.1891. Resigned May 1926
Michael Gee. 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Appointed 5.1.1891. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.93. Promoted 1st Class Attendant August 97. Pension 18.5.14. Michael, describes himself as a carpenter on his wedding certificate. He married Hannah Calnan of Lee Road Cottage, Wellington Bridge on 1 September 1900. Her father, Denis- deceased – was a carpenter. Michael’s father, Thomas, deceased, was a labourer. The wedding was witnessed by Simon Murphy of 3.1 Blarney Street and Julian Dempsey. Michael retired on a pension of £65 per annum in 1914 and went to live on his farm in Carrigtwohill.
Michael Galvin. 21 years. Appointed 5.5.1891. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 6.5.93.
Daniel Keohane. 22 years. Appointed 23.3.1891. 2nd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.12.93. Died 17.6.19
John Desmond. 35 years. Appointed 6.8.1891. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 13.6.92. Passed Nursing Certificate Exam in 1897 and granted £2 pay increase.mPension 17.7.1922
Michael Rogers. 21 years. Appointed 24.9.1891. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.4.96. Pension 13.2.1928
Michael Rogers started working as a 3rd Class Attendant in the Cork District Lunatic Asylum on 24.9.1891. He was 21 years old. He was promoted to Charge Attendant on 1.4.1896. He continued working in the hospital until he was pensioned on 13.2.1928. By 1922 he had passed the exams of the Medico- Psychological Association. He was an ambitious chap and obviously dedicated to the job because the exams were not, at that time compulsory and while it would help to have them, he was already a charge attendant, so was not taking the exams with a view to being promoted. He is listed again in the Census of 1901 which shows him living in the Asylum (all unmarried attendants were required to do so) or perhaps he was on night duty – one way or the other, he was present in the Asylum on the night of 31st March 1901. The Asylum had hired a clerk to fill out the Census returns but alas he was not too diligent as all he recorded was the name and approximate area from which the respondent was from. We can see that Michael is listed as being from “the City”. In 1910 he was Secretary of the Trade Union in the Asylum.
By 1911, Michael, now 40 years old, had married 36 year old Ellen Twomey from Banteer. They married in Cathedral Cork 26th October 1902. Michael’s address was Eglinton Asylum. His father was John Rogers. Ellen’s father is recorded as Matthew Twomey farmer.
She was an attendant in the asylum starting in 1901. At that time, though, female staff were required to give up work when they got married.
They are listed as having three children – John, 7 years old and Mary Ellen and Michael Joseph who appear to be infant twins. You suggested that they had a son who worked in the Asylum and indeed we find John being appointed to the staff on 1.8.1923. He is 20 years old. We are told that he passed the Nursing Council of Ireland Certificate but we are not told when. We also know that he was promoted to 2nd Class Attendant on 14.11.1938. Although we are not told, it is possible that he was still working there up to the early 1960s.
Hannah Curtin. Appointed 4.8.1891. 19 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant April 19. 1895. Resigned 16.12.1897.
Mary McCarthy. Appointed 4.8.1891. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant April 1893. Resigned 13.2.1895.
Ellen Nulty. Appointed 2.1891. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 6.1892. Promoted Charge Attendant 5.1896. Resigned 12.1896.
1892
Report of Inspector of Lunatics 1892
On 21st, 22nd and 23rd and part of the 24th September we were engaged in inspecting the asylum. During our visit we had the pleasure of meeting some of the governors and of conferring with them on the proposed plans for the alteration of the laundry. We must in the first instance state that we found all parts of the institution cleaner and tidier than on our last visit. We also have to record our sense of the evident desire of the governors to improve the sanitary conditions of the asylum and to carry out any such alterations as they consider necessary for the better working of the various departments
We found on the books 1057 patients – 534 men and 523 women – showing an increase of 51 since our last visit. 100 deaths were recorded. Thoracic 62; Cerebral 12; Scrofula 2; Senile decay 10; other diseases 13; strangulation 1.
The average age of men was 45.3 and women 41.9.
Into the causes of 2 deaths only did the coroner consider it necessary to hold an inquest. In one case death was the result of suicide. The patient having hanged herself from the window sash in her room. In the other case the fatal result followed an operation most skilfully performed to remove a stone which had become impacted in the oesophagus. In 20 cases post mortem examinations were performed – this shows most satisfactory progress on the part of the medical staff and is evidence of the interest which they take in their work and their determination to keep pace with other similar institutions in scientific research. The governors propose to erect a new mortuary and when this is finished and a suitable place provided it is hoped that these investigations will increase.
The following table shows the number of cases of zymotic disease
Male Female Total
Typhoid fever 2 4 6
Typhus 7 5 10
Fibricula 2 2 4
Dysentery 3 1 4
Erysipelas 2 1 3
This table speaks for itself and must in the present day be considered to show a regrettable record of preventable disease. If we further add that that there has been since 1883 no less than 5 outbreaks of Typhus Fever alone in the asylum, the necessity of providing a separate building for the treatment of infectious diseases will be at once apparent, as well as improving the water supply and the general sanitary conditions of the asylum.
The number of entries in the register of restraint and seclusion since 20th April 1890 amount to 360 but of these 140 refer to the occasions when four patients had to be restrained for surgical reasons to prevent the removal of splints and dressings. The records of seclusion show that 24 persons were secluded and that on 29 occasions the time did not exceed 2 hours.
We saw all the patients first at dinner and afterwards in their wards. We are able to give a most satisfactory report as to the improvement that has taken place in their condition both as regards neatness and cleanliness. The men, on whose appearance we were obliged to report unfavourably, are now neatly and respectably dressed and considering the very inadequate laundry arrangements must more attention needs to be paid to the linen. The dress of the women is also much improved by the introduction of a few bright coloured cottons and by the substitution of flannel for linsey petticoats in winter. Much more attention appears to be paid to the hair of both males and females which is now clean and neat.
The condition of the bedding has also improved. Of course, we have already said it is impossible to have perfect cleanliness with the present most defective means of washing but though perhaps the sheets and pillows might be cleaner, we found no vermin except fleas in any of the beds.
A number of wire woven mattresses have been introduced, the straw ticks and old antiquated bedsteads are by degrees being diminished, the rope fastenings referred to in our last report have been abolished and suitable canvas bottoms in their stead. Some additional furniture, hand made rugs and prints have been put in the day rooms and corridors. We trust however, that further attempts will be made to brighten the divisions occupied by the more troublesome patients.
The lavatories and water closets still remain in their unsatisfactory condition but plans for new sanitary annexes have now been perfected and have been forwarded for the approval of the board of control. Provision has also been made for proper baths, supplied with hot and cold water.
Throughout the institution new grates are by degrees taking the place of the old obsolete for of fireplaces. It is hoped that these will in some degree improve the temperature of the wards during the winter months as during the past years the records show that the thermometer has at times fallen very low while a large proportion of deaths resulted from consumption and diseases of eh respiratory organs.
We suggest that the governors should in the first instance consider the advisability of heating the hospital with hot water. They will see the importance of being able to provide an equable temperature in the building set apart for the treatment of disease which can best be obtained by a system of heating by hot water pipes. This hospital affords admirable treatment for the sick but is unfortunately very small. A well constructed building however exists to the rear of the building and connected with it by a passage. The building was evidently originally build as a ward for infectious cases but is now almost disused occupied only by night attendants. A waste of valuable space thus occurs as the night attendants could be accommodated equally well elsewhere and the building could at a small cost be rendered capable of isolation in the event of an outbreak of an epidemic. At ordinary times this house would provide most excellent accommodation for a few inform patients who require care and supervision of the hospital staff. The whole infirmary would require some additional furniture and comforts as to render it more suitable for the treatment of the sick.
We would beg to call to the attention of the hospital governors to the old hospital building now occupied by patients employed on the farm as the whole fabric is in a very dilapidated condition and would appear to urgently require some repairs in order to save it from ruin. The floors everywhere stand in need of repair, new gates are required and fires should be kept burning as long as possible to keep out the damp; the water closets also which have fallen into disrepair should be removed and some new sanitary appliances erected in their stead.
The dormitories have been much improved as regards neatness and order, the objectionable boxes containing the patients clothes have been removed. But we must again call attention to the want in so large an institution of a dormitory set apart for the strict supervision of the suicidal and epileptic, such a dormitory would be a safeguard to all connected with its management, satisfying them that every precaution had been taken to guard against accident.
Since our last visit an additional night nurse have been appointed with the results that the habits of the patients have been much improved. A trained nurse will for the future take charge of the hospital which will tend to improve the care and treatment of the sick.
The duties of the various officials are now so arranged that a responsible officer is at all times on the wards.
The staff on the male side consists of 42 male attendants, 12 tradesmen and 3 night attendants. This excluding artisans gives a ratio of 1 attendant to 12.7 patients. On the female side there are 34 day nurses, 4 laundresses, 3 night attendants, 2 housemaids, 1 cook. This excluding laundresses and night attendants is a proportion of 1 attendant to 15 patients, not by any means too strong a staff but at present the accommodation is so inadequate that room cannot be found for a greater number. The board of governors ought therefore consider how they can provide accommodation for both their male and female staff.
In order to retain respectable men in their service the governors are aware that it is important to provide them with comfortable quarters; we would therefore suggest the advisability of erecting a number of cottages on the farm for the use of male attendants.
On the female side very fair accommodation could be provided for the staff by erecting an additional storey in the old recreation hall. This might be divided into bedrooms with a sitting room where the nurses could spent their evenings and if necessary space might be found there for a workroom.
With regard to the dietary scale, a regular authorised scale has now been sanctioned – a copy of which is appended to the annual report of the RMS. We think the governors should be congratulated on the scale of food which is allowed to the insane inmates. It is liberal and at the same time suitable to the habits of the people and framed with due regard to economy. There is still much room for improvement in the service of the meals. It is proposed to furnish the dining room with a lift for the conveyance of food from the kitchen. This would appear to be much needed ass the passage at present is so steep as to be a source of positive danger. Much more expedition could be used in serving the food – at present it must be cold before the patients get it. To obviate this a carving table should be provided with a hot plate. Above all it is important that the attendants should be carefully trained in their duties so that d=service of meals should be carried out with strictest regard to regularity and order.
The laundry may be looked on as one of the most pressing requirements at present. The board of governors are well aware what an absolute necessity it is that the department should be equal to meet the requirements of such an institution where so many human beings requiring above all things absolute cleanliness are dependent on its working from day to day and they appear anxious to provide all that is required. No difficulty should exist in ascertaining what is required. When the present additions are furnished it will be necessary to provide for the washing of 1400 persons and to make room for the employment of 100 women. It is then only necessary to estimate the number of articles to be washed every week and every day. An opinion can then be obtained from a specialist on laundry fittings on the amount of machinery needed to carry out the work within the required time.
The chaplains book shows that on Sunday 20th September 244 men and 201 201 women attended the catholic service; 16 men and 20 women went to the protestant service, while 1 man and 3 women attended the ministrations of the Presbyterian clergymen.
The number of patients employed show that much greater energy is displayed on the part of the staff to encourage the patients to work. 146 men are employed every day on the farm – an increase of more than 100. No employment can be more useful than field labour as the majority of the patients are agricultural labourers, or likely to prove more lucrative to the institution. the example of Mullingar asylum shows how far employment of this nature can be carried as during the last Summer out of 350 patients, 150 were employed in the garden or farm, while large bodies of patients assisted the farmers of the surrounding district in haymaking and saving. A fair proportion of female are also usefully employed in the laundry or at needle work. It is hoped that when the enlargement of the laundry is carried out the number of women engaged will be largely increased.
Both make and female patients not=w take daily walks in the grounds, a capital road having been completed around the farm.
Only about 20 patients are confined to the airing courts. The dances are still regularly carried out three evenings a week, a magic lantern has been provided in the recreation room which is a constant source of interest. We would suggest that a second hand piano should be obtained for the female wards as a means of recreation and amusement during the winter evenings.
The books prescribed by law were duly submitted to us and appeared to be carefully kept. The case books were also posted up to date by the Medical officers.
We must congratulate the board of governors and Dr Oscar Woods, on the marked improvement in the condition of the insane in the asylum and trust that no further delays might occur in carrying our=t the various alterations and improvements required in the asylum and which has been agreed on by the governors to completion.
1st October 1891
John Foley 30 years. Appointed 3.2.1892. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 22.3.92. Reduced 2nd Class Attendant 2.22.95. He lived at 124 Horgan’s Buildings. He was attended at his death by Hanora Foley. Cause of death was TB. Died May 98
Joseph Gould. 32 years. Fireman. Appointed 13.6.1892. Pension 19.3.1923. Joseph married Julian O’Connor on 25 July 1885 at the North cathedral. She was from the Lee Road. Her father was a Gardener. His father was a labourer
John Conroy. 25 years. Appointed 3.8.1892. 3rd Class Attendant. Retired 28.1.97
Francis J Strange. 24 years. Appointed 24.3.1892. 2nd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Promoted Night Attendant 1.12.92. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.10.95. Frances married Kate O’Sullivan – also on the staff – on November 10 1899. His father – John Strange – was a porter. Her father was a labourer. The marriage was witnessed by John O’Sullivan and Ellie O’Keilty. He resigned 11.6.98
James Waldren. 34 years. Cook. Died North Infirmary while undergoing an operation 26.6.1914.
James Walker. Cook. he died in 1914 while undergoing an operation in the North Infirmary
Margaret Lynch. Appointed 5.1892. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.4.1895. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.2.1897. Resigned 5.2.1898
Ellen Murphy. Appointed 2.2.1892. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.8.1895. Resigned 27.4.1898.
1893
British Medical Journal. February 25 1893.
Cork District Lunatic Asylum
Dr Woods, RMS of the Cork District Lunatic Asylum, in his report for the past year to the governors, alluded, among other matters, to the steady increase of lunatics admitted to the asylum……. in 1867 there was one lunatic to every 600 of the population; in 1892 one to every 273, the numbers being more than doubled in a quarter of a century. He is of the opinion that the increase in lunacy will continue until some restriction is put by the Legislature on injudicious marriages. Some day, he thought, it would be found necessary to interfere with the so-called rights of the intemperate and weak-minded members of the population.
Robert Jackson. Appointed 2.4.1893. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Promoted Charge 1.12.93. pension 21.5.23
Cornelius Murray. Appointed 6.4.1893. 27 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 10.1.95, Charge Attendant 8.1.96. He married Julia Daly from Clarke’s Bridge in 1895. His father Denis was a shopkeeper. Her father was a farmer. The marriage was witnessed by Patrick Burke and Kattie Ryan. Pension May 1907
Peter Keane. 19 years. Appointed 4.7.1893. Resigned 9.7.97
Andrew Sullivan. 25 years. Appointed 9.6.1893. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 8.7.96
John Murphy. 30 years. Appointed 15.10.1893. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Promoted Charge 1.8.95. promoted Head Night May 02, Resigned 19.7.26
John Sullivan. 31 years. Appointed 5.11.1893. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge 95, Left 4.4.98
Patrick O’Sullivan 29 years. Appointed 5.12.1893. 3rd Class Attendant. Promotes 2nd Class 4.96. Head Night Attendant 4.4.98. Head Day Attendant Nov 02, Promoted to Lay Officer 1920. Resigned 10.1.32.Medio- Psychological Exam Nov 93.
Joseph Simpson. 28 years. Appointed 5.12.1893. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge 6.5.96. Died 8.5.98
Patrick Browne. 22 years. Appointed 5.12.1893. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 97. Pensioned 21.10.1918
Thomas Reilly. 21 years. Appointed 23.10.1893. 3rd Class Attendant. 1st Class Attendant August 97. Left on Superannuation 1948.
Ellen Sullivan. Appointed 6.3.1893. 19 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.8.1895. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.3.1898. Resigned to be married August 1901.
Bridget Ryan. Appointed 4.12.1893. 28 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 19.10.1895. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.3.1897. Pensioned 16.2.1914
Mary Hanlon. Appointed 4.2.1893. 27 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 28.8.1895. Promoted Charge Attendant 5.1896. Left 2.4.1898
Kate Lehane. Appointed 4.12.1893. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 19.10.1895. Promoted Charge Attendant1.3.1897. Resigned 1.2.1898.
Emma Barry. Appointed 1.2.1893. 20 years. 2nd Class attendant. Resigned 3.1898. ill-health
Ann Montgomery. Appointed 3.8.1893. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 8.1985. Resigned 9.2.1897.
Kate Walsh. Appointed 4.2.1893. 19 years. 2nd Class attendant. Left 18.5.1895.
Katherine Casey. Appointed 4.9.1893. 24 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 12.10.1895. Promoted Charge Attendant July 1905. Pension 16.6.1924.
Elizabeth Tolerton. Appointed 21.11.1893. 34 years. Trained Nurse. Matron 1.2.1897. Pension 15.12.1919
1894
British Medical Journal. March 3 1894; India and the colonies
Cork District Lunatic Asylum
In June last, a tender was accepted for building six annexes, considerably enlarging the laundry, erecting a passage of communication between the new (St Kevin’s) and the old buildings (Grey Building), constructing a main sewer in the front grounds, building a lodge at the eastern entrance (back gate) and a mortuary.
Alfred Smith 26; Appointed 12.3.1894. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Appointed Hall Porter. Resigned 8.9.96
Thomas Hayes. Appointed 3.4.1894. 3rd Class Attendant. Passed Medico- Psychological Exam in 1898. Promoted charge Attendant 1.5.98. Acting Head Night Attendant – Head Night attendant 24.8.96. pension 19.12.1933. By 1916 he was second most senior man in the hospital – Deputy Head Day Nurse.
Hugh Buzza(?) 25. Appointed 13.5.1894. 2nd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Resigned 2.3.97
Michael Bracken. 48 years. Appointed 21.5.1894. Gate Porter. Died 16.3.1913
Fredrick Caulfield. 29 years. Appointed 5.5.1894. 2nd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Resigned to fill appointment in English Asylum. 20.2.97
Rev Dr O’Mahony Appointed 2.4.94. RC Chaplain
Kate Sullivan. Appointed 2.8.1894. 24 years. 2nd Class attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.8.1896. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.1897. Left to get married 11.6.1904
Ima (?) Murphy. Appointed 3.10.1894. 24 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 8.1.1896. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.7.1897. Promoted Head Night Attendant 1.1904. Promoted Head Day Attendant 3.1910. Resigned 12.8.1915.
Maggie Murphy. Appointed 3.9.1894. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.9.1896. Promoted Charge attendant 5.3.1897. Resigned 1900.
Ellen Higgins. Appointed 2.7.1894. 23 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Laundress May 1896. Resigned 5.2.1898
Georgina Sheppard. Appointed 2.7.1894. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. 2nd in Charge 5.1898 [difficult to know what this means – we see her listed in the Census of 1901 as a 2nd Class Attendant -at the Asylum]. Resigned 3.10.1901.
1895
William Dilworth. Appointed 4.2.1895. 35 years. Appointed 4.2.1985. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 15.5.1900
Michael Lynch. Appointed 4.2.1895. 21 years. Appointed 4.2.1895. 3rd Class Attendant. Passed Nursing Certificate in 1897 and granted £2 pay increase. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.1.98. Resigned 31.7.98 to go to America
Daniel Hegarty. Appointed 25.2.1895. 35 years. Appointed 25.2.1895. Gardiner. Committee recommend that his pay be increased to top of the scale £40. (28.9.1899). Died 13 July 1923
Daniel Coveney 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Assistant in kitchen. Promoted Night Attendant 1.12.97.
Patrick Murphy. Appointed 1.4.95. 21 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 1898. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1900. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1902.
Denis Coffey. Appointed 6.5.95. 24 years. Assistant Tailor. Resigned 30.6.98
Hugh Ryan. Appointed 6.5.95. 24 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 12.96. Passed Nursing Certificate in 1897 and granted £2 pay rise. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 11.97. Promoted Charge Attendant 11.97. His daughter Margaret Ryan started in the asylum in 1920 – she married Attendant Robert O’Brien (started 1915)and left in 1922.
William Dooley. Appointed 15.5.95. 35 years old. 2nd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Resigned 30.11.96
John Burns. Appointed 7.6.95. 24 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant Dec 95. Promoted Night Attendant May 96. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 11.99. Resigned to go private nursing in England 26.12.1901
William Murphy. Appointed 1.7.95. 20 years old. School master. Head Attendant 1.2.97. Assistant Storekeeper 8.4.02. Medico-Psychological Exam 8.4.02. Store keeper 17.8.1915. Died 28.6.1938
Thomas Sexton. Appointed 1.7.1895. 21 years. Promoted Night Duty 1.8.1895.Passed Nursing Certificate in 1897 and granted £2 pay increase.
John O’Callaghan Appointed 22.10.95 33 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 1.5.99 – health reasons
Charles Foster Appointed 22.10.95. 26 years old 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2 Class Attendant 1.5.96. Resigned 22.1.1900 – called up to the Army Reserve.
Maurice Quinlan 22.10. 95 22 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant March 96. 2nd Class Attendant 1.5.98. 1st Class Attendant 1.5.98. Resigned 2.11.1901 to go private nursing in England
Thomas Reynolds Appointed 1.7.95 35 years old. House Stewart. Died 2.4.1920. [The post of House Stewart was seen as critical for the efficient running of any Asylum. Many authorities thought that this post should be given to a Head Attendant or someone with experience of management of an Asylum]. When Reynolds was appointed it caused some controversy. Dr Courtney writes;
..” I regret to feel it my duty to express the opinion that the Governors, in electing to this important post a person without previous Asylum or hospital training, have assumed a grave responsibility, and have in my opinion taken a step which must heavily handicap the RMS in the successful working of the institution….”
Hanora Henry states “… [Thomas Reynolds] record was five years as a clerk with the Clyde Steam Pack Company, while for three years immediately preceding his appointment, he was employed as a commercial traveler..”
Despite Dr Courtney’s concerns, Mrs Henry tells us that “Mr Reynolds exercised his duties with diligence, courtesy and kindness”.
David Reynolds (on horseback) son of Thomas. Taken in grounds of Asylum c.1904
Here’s an interesting story about David Reynolds that rugby fans will like;
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Dr William Scanlon. Appointed 1.7.95. 2nd Assistant to RMS. Died 26.5.1901
Dr JP Cashman Appointed 1.7.95. 3rd Assistant to RMS. Promoted to 1st Assistant to RMS 11.6.01. Died 29.9.1937
Ellen Twomey. Appointed 1.4.1895. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.5.1898. Left to get married 16.10.1902
Esther (?) Murphy. Appointed 1.7.1995. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.5.1898. Promoted Night Duty 21.2.1899. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 3.9.1900. Pensioned 20.1.1913
Ellen Casey. Appointed 4.2.1895. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.2.1897. Promoted Charge attendant 11.11.1897. Left to get married 14.2.1903
Lizzie Barry. Appointed 1.7.1895. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Satisfactory. Resigned 31.12.1898.
Sara Austin. Appointed 21.9.1895. 22 years. 2nd Class attendant. Left 18.3.1897
Mary Donovan. 22 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 1.1899. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant October 1899. Promoted Charge Attendant 9.7.1903. Pension 21.10.1913.
Julia O’Brien. Appointed 21.10.1895. 23 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 21.9.1899. Promoted Head Night Attendant March 1910. Promoted Head Day Attendant 18.10.1915. Pensioned 18.4.1930
Ellen Bryan. Appointed 1.4.1895. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.5.1898. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.5.1898. Pensioned 16.4.1923.
M Twomey. Appointed 3.3.1895. 22 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Duty 10.8.1899. Left to get married 13.3.1906.
Kate Twomey. Appointed 1.3.1895. 22 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Appointed Laundry Assistant April 1898. Died March 1899.
1896
British Medical Journal November 8 1952
Dr John Joseph Fitzgerald, a psychiatrist who had outlived almost all his contemporaries, died at Shenley, Hertfordshire on October 15th in his 84th year. he qualified LRCP, LRCSEd. in 1894 and obtained an MD (Brussels) in 1898, thereafter taking the LRCPI in 1903 and the MD (Durham) in 1911. He entered the Irish mental hospital service in 1896 and worked at the cork Mental Hospital for over 40 years. Dr Fitzgerald long proceeded most of his Irish colleagues in realizing the value of psychotherapy. in the early 1920s he conducted in his home at Cork what is believed to have been the first psychiatric out-patient clinic in Ireland. his wife, Dr Lucia Fitzgerald joined him in that enterprise and in 1926 they published in the Journal of Mental Science a record of psychiatric treatment of out-patients. he was well known at one time to the students of UCC as a lecturer in mental diseases but the best tribute to his teaching ability lies in the fact that his son and his two daughters and their husbands have all followed him in specializing in psychiatry, so that he enjoyed the probably unique position of having an all-psychiatrist family. Dr Fitzgerald had also earned a reputation as an antiquarian and genealogist and up to the time of his death he was a member of the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland. he was a former president of the Munster Branch of the British Medical Association of which he had been a member for many years.
Thomas Daly 21.1.96 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned Oct 96. Fairly active and willing. Good as an outdoor man.
Daniel Kelleher 2.6.96. 30 years old. Night Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.97. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.2.99. Pension 19.2.1923
Christopher M Leavy 24.6,96. 26 years old. 2nd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.5.02. Left to join the Army 14.1.1915. Returned 24.2.1919. Left 4.7.1927
Thomas O’Keeffe 21.5.96. 23 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. 2.6.96 – Appointment not confirmed by Board
Martin Tobin 21.5.96 23 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.97. Left 1.6.98
Arthur Attridge 4.5.96 33 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.97. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 11.1.99. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.10.99. Died 20.11.1909
Denis Lenihan 4.5.96 31 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 8.7.96
John Ryan. Appointed 4.5.96 22 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 12.96
John Daly. Appointed 4.5.96 24 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 30.12.96
John J O’Callaghan. Appointed 4.5,96 28 years. 3rd Class attendant. Promoted Night Attendant April 97. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant April 98. Resigned to go to England 1.5.1902
Thomas Murphy. Appointed 4.5.96 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.3.98. Promoted 1st Class attendant 1.6.1902. Pension 15.5.1917 – Character very good.
Robert Forrest. Appointed 4.5.96 27 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 4.6.96
Jerh Murphy. Appointed 6.5.96 33 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.96. Died July 26 1912
Richard Barrett. Appointed 1.6.96 26 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.9.99. Taken off night duty 1.11.98 – not agreeing with his health. Died 10.11.1900
Robert Coleman. Appointed 1.6.96 27 years – Plasterer. Resigned 30.1.99
John Lehane. Appointed 1.6.96 23 years old 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night attendant 1.4.97. Resigned due to ill health 29.8.99
Denis Murphy. Appointed 1.6.96 20 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 8.7.96
Frances Hunter. Appointed 1.6.96 3rd Class Attendant. Hall Porter 5.9.96. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.98. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.2.99. Pensioned under Accident Clause of the Asylum Officers Act. The committee unanimously decided that all unfavourable records made against Charge Attendant Hunter be erased in recognition of his meritorious conduct in the incident of (named patient) making a determined attempt on his life by strangulation. (signed by Dr James Cashman 23.8.15)
Michael O’Connell. Appointed 1.6.96. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 3.2.99
John Leech. Appointed 24.6.96 2nd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Resigned 19.9.9
Jerh O’Driscoll. Appointed 4.8.96. 28 years old. 3rd Class Attendant.
William McNamara. Appointed 4.8.96. 3rd Class attendant. Resigned 5.9.96.
Jerh Lehane. Appointed 4.8.96. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 15.6.06. Resigned 22.10.07
James O’Connell. Appointed 4.8.96 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.97. Died September 1903 – fever.
Jerh Murphy. Appointed 6.10.96 24 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Hall Porter 1.1.98. 1st Class Attendant 1.4.07. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.98. Resigned 15.7.1930
James Farquhar. Appointed 30.10.96 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Left July 1897
Bartholomew O’Shea. Appointed 10.96 27 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.97. Promoted Charge attendant 1.10.97.
George Shine. Appointed 10.96. 23 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Night Attendant 1.3.97. Died in the Fever Hospital 3.11.97
John Lynch Jnr. Appointed 10.96 25 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Left without giving notice Aug
Thomas Linton. Appointed 7.7.96 20 years old. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Promoted 1st Class Attendant. Church of Ireland – played the harmonium at Service each Sunday.
Dr Lucia Strangman Clinical Assistant. 1872 – 1958. From Waterford. Graduated RCSI 1891/92. Married Dr Fitzgerald of this Asylum. Appointed 2.11.96. 4th Assistant to RMS 1896. 3rd Assistant 1898. 2nd Assistant 1901. Worked as MO in charge of the Female side until being superannuated on 15.4.1934. During the First World War she took leave from the Asylum and worked at the military barracks in Fermoy.
Her sister Dr Mary Somerville Parker Strangman was a famous suffragette https://digitalheritagecollections.rcsi.ie/rcsiwomen/mary-strangman/
Her three brothers were also doctors. The Board of Management of the asylum passed a vote of sympathy with Dr Strangman on the death of her brother; Colonel Cecil Strangman. In what seems to me to be a remarkable fete of carelessness, they sympathised with the wrong man. The Colonel lived to a ripe old age in Australia dying in 1942. However, the death is recorded of 2nd Lieutenant WH Strangman Royal Field Artillery in Flanders during the Battle of Paschendale 1917 – this seems to be the man whose sympathy the board were aiming at.
British Medical Journal January 25 1958.
Lucia FS Strangman Fitzgerald LRCP & SI
Dr Lucia FS Strangman Fitzgerald, formerly assistant physician to the Cork Mental Hospital, died at a nursing home at St Albans, Hertfordshire, on January 7th at the age of 87. Lucia Frances Sarah Strangman Fitzgerald was born in 1870 at Waterford where her family had been living for several generations. Her sister, the late Dr Mary Strangman and she were fellow students at the Meath Hospital in Dublin and qualified together in 1896. Lucia, in the same year, became assistant physician to the Cork Mental Hospital, thereby becoming the first woman doctor to enter the asylum service in Ireland. during the First World War she was seconded to work as a civilian medical officer, at first to the Fermoy Military Hospital and later to the Cork Military Hospital. She then returned to her mental hospital post and completed 35 years service before her retirement from medical practice. her husband, the late John Joseph Fitzgerald, who died in 1952, also worked as an assistant physician in the same hospital. they conducted what was probably the first out-patient clinic in Ireland and described that experience in a joint article published in the Journal of Mental Science in 1926. She was one of the earliest to hold the Certificate in Psychological Medicine of the Royal Medico- Psychological Association which she obtained in 1897. However, despite her enterprise in the field of psychiatry, Dr Lucia Fitzgerald’s medical interest were by no means confined to her speciality. she proved herself to be an able surgeon and carried out many major operations in the days when mental hospital doctor might regard such work as part of their daily routine. ever busy, generous to a fault, always ready to help anyone in trouble, skilled in many arts – from that of hospital to the finer points of carpentry, gardening and raising livestock – she ws a devoted mother to her three children, who have followed her example in specialising in psychiatry.
Late Medical Superintendant Shenley Hospital, Hertfordshire. Born in Cork Districh Lunatic Asylum where his parents were medical officers. He was secretary of the International Conference on Psychotherapy in 1948 and was on the commission of enquiryt on Mental Illness which reported to the Irish Government in 1966. He died 17th July 2000.
Maggie Gorman. Appointed 25.3.1896. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd in Charge June 1898. Resigned 11.3.1904
Ellen Driscoll. Appointed 1.6.1896. 25 years. 2nd Class attendant. Promoted 2ndd in Charge June 1898. Promoted Charge 1.3.1900. Left to get married December 1904.
Bridget Maycroft. Appointed 1.6.1896. 26 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Resigned 11.5.1899
Nora Hartnett. Appointed 1.6.1896. 20 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge attendant December 1901. Left to get married July 1903.
—- Hunter. Appointed 1.6.1896. 2nd Class Attendant. Absented herself 12.6.1896.
Kate Walsh. Appointed 5.10.1896. 25 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.2.1899. Pension 16.8.1920
Julia Connor. Appointed 5.10.1896. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Satisfactory. Resigned 2.3.1898.
Kate Coughlan. Appointed 21.6.1896. 24 years. Promoted 2nd in Charge 1893. Promoted Charge Attendant February 1903. Pension 15.7.1912.
Mary Kelly. Appointed 24.7.1896. 21 years. Left 7.10.1897
Mary (Theresa) O’Sullivan. Appointed July 1896. Left 21.4.1898
Mary Cogan. Appointed 20.8.1896. 23 years. Promoted Night Duty 6.1899. Promoted Charge Attendant 10.8.1896. Resigned 13.3.1900
Kate Neil. Appointed 19.11.1896. 28 years. Promoted 2nd in Charge 16.3.1897. Promoted Charge Attendant May 1904. Pension 15.10.1907.
Margaret Fitzgerald. Appointed 4.5.1896. 21 years. 2nd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.1899. Pensioned 22.5.1918
Margaret Curtin. Appointed 25.2.1896. 27 years. Promoted Laundry Assistant 13.10.1900. Resigned 1.7.1931
1897
In January 1897, a series of correspondence occurred between the Board of Management of the Cork District Lunatic Asylum and the Inspector of Lunatics about a proposed pay increase for staff. The Inspector was very much against the idea;
“…. in answer to the governors’ recommendation that gratuities be given to the staff of especially good conduct and service, the government consider this proposal open to grave objection…”
The Board were not to be silenced though
“…it is a very high degree expedient that the stimulus to good service should receive the sanction of Government and the governors in making this recommendation do not do so as a mere question of salary but with the object of rewarding, at a very small cost, exceptionally good Attendants, who at present are on the same level of pay to simply good and indifferent Attendants…”
January 1897
Denis Spriggs. Appointed 1.2.97. 31 years old. Plasterer. Resigned 10.1.98
John Cronin. Appointed 1.3.97 27 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Left 1.5.97
Michael O’Sullivan. Appointed 1.3.97 24 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 15.6.91. Resigned 20.8.1902 to go private nursing in England.
John Crowley. Appointed 1.3.97. 28 years old 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 28.6.99
John Barry. Appointed 1.3.97. 35 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.3.97. Promoted Night Attendant 14.4.97. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 2.3.99. Store attendant 1900. Appointed Officer August 1915. Resigned June 1927.
Robert Clarke. Appointed 1.3.97. 25 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 11.6.97
Daniel O’Connell. Appointed 1.3.97 24 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 1.4.99. Resigned 28.12.1901
Alexander George. Appointed 1.3.97. 35 years Bandmaster. Resigned 4.10.98
George Smith. Appointed 1.4.97 26 years old. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Resigned 2.4.98
Thomas Murphy. Appointed 3.5.97. Assistant Clerk. Clerk 1912. Superannuated 7.2.1929
Peter Howes. Appointed 14.5.97 27 years 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Left- called up to the Army Reserve. Returned 2.1.01 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Resigned 14.2.1907
William Smith. Appointed 5.6.97 29 years old. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Resigned April 1898
Edward Cronin. Appointed 9.6.97 23 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Night Attendant. Resigned 31.2.99
Michael Murray. Appointed 9.6.97 24 hears old. 3rd Class Attendant. Called up to the Army Reserve 10.10.99
William Spillane. Appointed 9.6.97 22 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.99. Resigned 15.10.1901 to go private nursing in England
James Curry. Appointed 9.6.97 26 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 3.1.98
Jerh O’Shea. Appointed 9.6.97. 26 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.9.99. Promoted Night Attendant 1.12.97. Called up to the Army Reserve 14.11.99. Reappointed 3.11.1900 returned from South Africa (Boer War). Resigned 15.4.02
Daniel Hurley. Appointed 9.6.97. Mason. Left 15 May 1897
David Bradley. Appointed 14.6.97. Carpenter. Resigned 21.10. 1933
Alfred Smith. Appointed 8.8.97 25 years old 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Resigned Sept 97
George Watson. Appointed 31.8.97 29 years old. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Resigned 11.5.99
Phillip Wall. Appointed 22.9.97 26 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 21.12.97
Nathaniel Bryce. Appointed 2.12.97 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Left 28.12.98
Michael Purcell. Appointed 6.12.97 30 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Resigned 1.10.1900. Died 27.11. 1900. Michael was 39 years old when he died. Cause of death – TB. He was from 87 Friar Street. He was unmarried. He had a brother called Arthur.
——– Lenihan 6 Dec 97. 30 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 1.7.98
Cornelius Murphy 6.12.97 27 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 18.7.98 to go to America
Richard Owens 6.12.97 33 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 1.7.98. Died 27.11.1904 – North Fever Hospital – Typhoid fever.
Kate Garvin. Appointed 1.3.1897. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 21.1.1899. Promoted Charge Attendant 4.3.1901 to the Refractory Ward (disturbed ward). Hall maid 2.4.1901. Pension 20.1.1913.
Mary K O’Sullivan. Appointed 2.3.1897. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.1899. Nights 1900. Pension 18.4.1922
Mary Hourigan. Appointed 24.3.1897. 24 years. Left 12.11.1897.
Norah Cronin. Appointed 13.4.1897. 22 years. Left 2.12.1897.
Margaret Lehane. Appointed 20.4.1897. Left 4.5.1897.
Ellen Dineen. Appointed 21.4.1897. 23 years. Left December 1898 – Ill-health
Mary Shorten. Appointed 21.4.1897. Left 16.5.1898. Under height.
Margaret Foley. Appointed 27.6.1897. 24 years. 2nd in charge February 1899. Charge Attendant 3.1905. Pension 24.10.1911.
Bridget McIlvany. 23 years. Temporary Attendant. Left to get married 12.4.1902.
Kate Archdeacon. Appointed 28.8.1897. Left 2.11.1897. Under height
Ann Murphy. Appointed 4.10.1897. 22 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 11.10.1897.
Mary Ann O’Leary. Appointed 19.10.1897. 18 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 5.1.1898.
Mary McCarthy. Appointed 25.10.1897. 28 years. Temporary Attendant. Resigned 10.8.1899.
Kate McMahon. Appointed 2.11.1897. Temporary Attendant. Left 8.11.1897.
Helenah Shortin. Appointed 19.11.1897. 28 years. Temporary Attendant.
Kate Langan. Appointed 23.11.1897. 25 years. Night Attendant 8.10.1898. Charge Attendant 14.2.1903. Pension 5.9.1911. She had previously worked at the Richmond Asylum – Grangegorman. When she left Cork in 1911 she went to live in Pettiswood, Mullingar.
Bridget Higgins. Appointed 2.12.1897. Temporary Attendant. Left 29.1.1898.
Lizzie Lehane. Appointed 6.12.1897. Resigned 23.1.1901.
Mary Finnegan. Appointed 4.12.1897. Left 17.9.1898.
Nora Murphy. Appointed 23.12.1897. Resigned 1.12.1898.
The Board of Management granted £30 for an evening party for the Attendants at Christmas 1897
1898
JJ Fitzgerald 28.5.98. 4th Assistant Medical Officer. 1901 3rd Assistant MO. 1934 2nd Assistant MO. Superannuated 17.12.1934
James Maguire 4.4.98 21 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 2.7.04
James O’Farrell 4.4.98 27 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.1.1900. Resigned 9.11.01 to fill a better position in England (Private Nursing)
Cornelius Reardon 4.4.98 26 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 1.3.99. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.01. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 1.7.03. Resigned to go to America 1.6.07
John Leary 4.4.98 26 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 1.5.99
Thomas Peyton 4.4.98 21 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Thomas married Bridget McSwiney – also on the staff – on 13 October 1902. He was from Devonshire Street. His father – Francis – was a Clerk. Bridget’s father is a farmer.
Jerh Cronin 4.4.98 22 years old. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.01. Transferred to Youghal Asylum
Thomas Murphy 2.2.98. 21 years old. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Retired May 98
Thomas Sullivan 2.2.98 25 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.99. Promoted Charge attendant 1.5.06. Superannuated 13.2. 1928
Michael Corcoran 6.6.98 23 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 1.2.99
Denis Hayes 6.6.98 21 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 1.11.98. Resigned to go private nursing in England 23.11.01
John Lenihan 6.6.98 20 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.01. Resigned 6.1.03
Daniel Callaghan 6.6.98 28 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night attendant 1.11.98. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.5.01. resigned 9.11.01 to go private nursing in England.
Maurice Moynihan 6.6.98 25 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 1.4.01. Resigned 19.12.02
William Buttimer 6.6.98 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 17.9.00. Resigned 19.12.02
Jordan J Roche 6.6.98. 20 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Resigned 15.9.98
David Crowley 6.6.98. 22 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. promoted Night attendant 1.1.99. promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.01. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.5.07. Resigned 21.2.1931. Died 1949
Patrick Dwyer 4.7.98 21 years old. Assistant Tailor. Master Tailor 16.2.1914. Died 5.11.35
David Griffiths 15.7.98 30 years old. 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Resigned 22.7.98 to fill position in England
Maurice Bunyon 4.7.98 21 years old. Plasterer. Resigned 9.9.98
William Gillan 23.9.98 36 years old 2nd Class Attendant & Bandsman. Resigned Jan 1899
Richard Nagle 7.9.98. 21 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 5.7.99
Roberet Gardiner 9.11.98 25 years old 3rd Class attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 1.1.99. Resigned 11.3.04
Patrick Sheehy 7.11.98 21 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 1.7.99. Promoted 2nd Class attendant 1.11.01. Resigned 31.2.02 to take up a place in England.
Patrick Higgins.11.12.98 Plasterer. Died June 1 1921.
Patrick Crowley 14.9.98 21 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned to go into RIC 17.3.1898
Mary Gould. Appointed 18.1.1898. Temporary Attendant. Left 14.2.1898
Norah Walsh. Appointed 19.1.1898. 24 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 21.4.1898.
Minnie Cogan. Appointed 29.1.1898. 20 years. Left 6.4.1898. Not strong
Ellen O’Brien. Appointed 9.1.1898. Temporary Attendant. Left 2.8.1898
Mary Murphy. Appointed 11.2.1898. Temporary Attendant. Left 8.4.1898. Under height
Agnus Jeffers. Appointed 12.2.1898. 22 years. Temporary Attendant. Left May 1898. Under height
Mary Riordan. Appointed 23.2.1898. 21 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.1899. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 4.1907. Promoted Head Night Attendant 8.1915. Pension 19.5.1924.
Mary Sullivan. Appointed 26.3.1898. 23 years. Left 10.4.1898. Not strong enough
Julia Harriot. Appointed 4.4.1898. 22 years. Appointed Hospital Cook. 7.1899.
Kathleen Geraghty. Appointed 4.4.1898. 20 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.4.1899. Promoted Charge Attendant July 1903. Pension 16.12.1918.
Catherine Ryan. Appointed 4.4.1898. 20 years. Resigned to go home due to brother’s illness 3.4.1902.
Mary McNamara. Appointed 16.4.1898. 27 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 7.1900. Put in charge of Patients Dining Room 4.8.1911. Promoted Charge Attendant 15.3.1912. Pension 15.12.1919
Helenah Callaghan. Appointed 17.4.1898. 27 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 9.12.1898 not strong.
Nora Cogan. Appointed 21.4.1898. 30 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 2.6.1898.
Catherine Mary Reynolds. Appointed 5.5.1898. 24 years. Head Night Attendant female side. Trained Nurse to Male sideJan 1900. Left to get married 5.1.1910.
Julia Ryan. Appointed 21.6.1898. 19 years. Left 30.8.1898
Nora Drummy. Appointed 22.6.1898. 21 years. Left November 1898 after an illness
Mary Scanlon. Appointed 25.6.1898. 19 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant October 1906. Promoted Charge Attendant 4.1907. Pension 1.10.1924
Lizzie Donnelly. Appointed 11.7.1898. 19 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 30.7.1898.
Margaret Spillane. Appointed 1.8.1898. Temporary Attendant. Left 31.8.1898.
Annie Crowley. Appointed 2.8.1898. Temporary Attendant. Left 5.9.1898
Mary Foley. Appointed 10.8.1898. 24 years. Temporary Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant November 1901. Left to get married 10.1907
Nora Twomey. Appointed 31.8.1898. 21 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant November 1901. Left to get married 10.1907.
Helenah Bradley. Appointed 1.9.1898. 22 years. Appointed Hall maid 8.1901. Left to get married 27.8.1907. Very satisfactory
Lizzie Crowley. Appointed 28. 10.1898. 20 years.
Minnie Canty. Appointed 1.10.1898. Temporary Attendant. Left 28.10 1898.
Kate Regan. Appointed 10. 3.1898. Left 9.11.1898.
Annie Twomey. Appointed 28.10.1898. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 12.1901. Nights December 1901. Resigned 9.1905.
Alice Bailey. Appointed 1.11.1898. Left 8.11.1898
Margaret Hurley. Appointed 8.11.1898. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 4.1900. Promoted Charge Attendant 12.1901. Pension 19.2.1918
Hannah Sullivan. Appointed 9.12.1898. 24 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 10.1901. Promoted 1st Class Attendant 10.1907. Left to get married 24.3.1908.
Nora Lynch. Appointed 10.12.1898. 24 years. Left 16.11.1899.
Catherine Ryan
Julian Forest
Catherine Langan
Norah Murphy
Ellen Dinan
E Riordan
John Leahy
Boer War
From 1895, we can see some of our colleagues being called up to the Army Reserve to fight in the Boer War in South Africa. 26 year old Charles Foster was the first to be called up in 1895. He was followed by John O’Shea (25) in 1897 and by Jerh O’Connor (25) and Thomas Dalton (27) in 1899. Other Reservists who were called up included Michael Murray, Christopher Leavy, Peter Howes, Timothy Cotter and George Donnelan. This is an astonishing number of Staff when we consider that in 1900 there were just 100 attendants including female attendants.
An entry to the Committee of Management Minute Book for 4.10.1899
“….agreed that those Attendants who had been called out in the Army Reserve, should any of them be willing and able to resume duty, within a year and in good health, be allowed to do so without loss of seniority…”
1899
Extract from the minutes of Committee of Management 28.9.1899.
“….the committee recommends that £5 Lodging Money be granted to 15 married Attendants (that being the number at present on the staff) and that the number getting this grant be not exceeded and that any Attendant wishing to get married, the Committee of Management to consider his service and character in granting that allowance….. this should in no way be considered to entitle the married attendants to a greater number of nights absence from the Asylum than at present and that as a rule the grant should only to be to Charge Attendants and men of more than five years service….”
The list of staff who started work in the Asylum in 1899 gives us a good picture of the national situation in all its complexity. The asylum was a small place staff wise – in all 170 people worked and lived here. From the entries below we can see the great mix of beliefs and ambitions harboured by our colleagues . For some the future held out the promise of stability, a steady income and a fairly good job. 23 year old Michael McCarthy stayed here for 38 years, finishing his career as a charge attendant in 1937. 21 John Crowley and 29 year old Pat Flynn also enjoyed full careers in the Asylum. Kate Buckley became a charge attendant and left in 1927. Minnie Riordan stayed just 5 years before heading to England to pursue a career in nursing. We are not told why 21 year old John Lynch went off to California.
However, 27 year old Thomas Dalton and 25 year old Jer O’Connor found life at the asylum lacked the necessary excitement. They had joined to Army Reserve and now found themselves drafted to South Africa to fight in the Boer War.
Two men entered the Asylum within one month of each other in 1899. 34 year old Con Sheehan in September and 20 year old Tim Barry in October. There can be no doubt that they knew each other well – they worked together for 5 years. It would be interesting to think that both, sharing a starting date, would find a common bond among the staff of the Asylum. However, fate and politics would see that their lives would diverge and that the only common link between both would be their deaths – albeit on different sides of the political divide. Con by the IRA and Tim by the British.
There is no single narrative an accommodate to complexity of the stories of the lives of our colleagues and perhaps, it is not necessary to seek one. It is enough to say that all life was here. Colleagues then, as now, live their lives according to their own values and we should leave it at that.
Michael E Devlin 2.1 99 24 years old. Medico-Psychological Exam. Bandmaster. Approved Lay Officer April 1920 when the post of bandmaster was abolished. Services terminated 31 March 1947 under regulation concerning age limit which has been fixed at 65. (signed John Collins). Died 30.11.51
John Lynch 2.2.99 21 years old. Promoted Night Attendant 1.3.99. Resigned 26.1.07 to go to California
Robert Burke 2.1.99 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned Feb 1899
Cornelius Cotter 2.1.99. 28 years Resigned 20.3.99
Jerh O’Connor 2.1.99 25 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 10.10.99 – called up to the Army Reserve
Peter Horan 19.1.99 22 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 12.5.03
Hugh Barrett 19.2.99 22 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Left 14.9.99
John Crowley 3.3.99 aged 21 years. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.01. Superannuated 18.4.1933
Patrick Leary 4.3.99 21 years. Temporary 3rd Class attendant. Resigned 19.2.04
Cornelius Kelleher 11.3.99. 22 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant
John Kelly 24.3.99 25 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant
Michael Callaghan 25.3.99 Temporary 3rd Class Attendant. Left 15.4.99
Michael McCarthy 1.4.99 23 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Charge Attendant 8.4.15. Superannuated 16.5.1933
Daniel Cunningham 10.4.99 3rd Class Attendant.
Thomas Kinneallly 12.5.99 21 years Temporary 3rd Class attendant. Resigned 20.12.99
Patrick Flynn 19.5.99. 24 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant March 02. Promoted Charge Attendant 2.1.15. Superannuated 20.6.1933
Michael Lawton 23.5.99 22 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 14.5.02
Thomas John O’Sullivan 20.5.99 3rd Class Attendant. Left 13.6.99
Cornelius Foley 14.6.99 – 20 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 9.8.01. Resigned Dec 19. 02
Daniel McCarthy 20.6.99 21 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant.
William O’Connor 20.6.99 25 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant
Bartholomew Cronin 29.6.99 21 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 21.12.99
Michael Kelly 13.7.99 31 years old. 3rd Class Attendant and Bandsman. Resigned 12.12.99
John Casey 21.8.99. 27 years old. 3rd Class Attendant & Bandsman.
John Daly 12.9.99. 20 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 22.12.02
Cornelius Sheehan 12.9.99 3rd Class attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.6.02. Died 19.3.1921. Age 54 years.
Extract from http://www.theirishrevolution.ie
A former asylum attendant at the Cork District Lunatic Asylum (he had worked there for twenty-two years), Cornelius Sheehan (known as ‘Long Con’ because he was 6 feet, 2 inches tall) had gone on sick leave following an attack on the night of 8 January 1921 on Blarney Street. Two IRA gunmen fired at him and an RIC constable, wounding both. This incident occurred as he was returning home from work at the asylum, when he stopped to talk with Constable Carroll (of the Cornmarket Street RIC Station) near the Good Shepherd Convent. See II, 10 Jan. 1921. The police later reported that Sheehan had been ‘fired at and wounded owing to the fact that he kept company with a certain R.I.C. man in Cork. The constable was also wounded on this occasion.’ The police report in January 1921 concluded that the motive for this shooting was to murder the constable and his friend Sheehan, who was suspected of supplying information. See RIC County Inspector’s Monthly Report, Cork City and East Riding, Jan. 1921 (CO 904/114, TNA).
A police report provided a more specific account of this incident: ‘At 6:30 p.m. on 8.1.21 Constable John Carroll of Cornmarket Street was standing in Blarney Street speaking to Cornelius Sheehan. The constable was in plainclothes. They saw 7 or 8 men on the street near them and got the order “hands up”, and almost simultaneously with the order, several shots were fired. Sheehan was shot in the left shoulder and a bullet grazed the constable’s wrist. The constable drew his revolver and fired, but it is not known if anyone was hit.’ See Monthly Summary of Outrages against the Police (CO 904/150, TNA).
This encounter may have raised further suspicions within the local IRA. The Cork County Eagle of 26 March 1921 reported about a case heard in the Cork Police Court on 18 March, when in the course of the hearing Sheehan’s daughter had complained about a neighbour’s conduct; his daughter had indeed testified that her life and her father’s had been threatened by this neighbour. The following day (19 March), while he was at home with his wife and other family members at about 8:30 p.m., gunmen pounded on the front door of his house and demanded admission, and a revolver appeared through a small hole in the door. His wife refused to open it. Suspecting the worst, Cornelius Sheehan ran out the back door, where another group of gunmen were waiting and shot him; he died almost instantaneously with his eldest son at his side. See CC, 21 March 1921; CE, 21 March 1921. A doctor at the military inquest testified to an older wound on Sheehan’s shoulder and to two new bullet wounds that had caused his death. See Military Inquests, WO 35/159B/3 (TNA).
Both the Irish Independent of 22 March 1921 and the Cork Weekly News of 26 March 1921 reported that Sheehan was suspected of having given information to the police on the Clogheen IRA arsenal at the back end of the asylum farm. Crown forces had earlier raided this IRA arms dump on 13 January 1921 [when Mary Bowles was arrested]. According to the historian William Sheehan, this raid was conducted on the basis of information derived from the girlfriend of a soldier of the Hampshire Regiment; her information corroborated two other sources whose identities remain a mystery. See Sheehan (2011), 88. Since Sheehan was wounded some days before this, it appears improbable that the first shooting episode was connected to the Bowles’ raid.
It is apparent from the BMH witness statement of local Volunteer Charles O’Connell that ‘on further information from the brigade another spy was shot. This happened in ‘C’ Company area, though the job was carried out by ‘D’ Company.’ See Charles O’Connell’s WS 566, 3 (BMH). Corroborating this statement is an operations report from the First Battalion of the Cork No. 1 Brigade, which recorded that a ‘spy [had been] shot dead in Blarney St’ by members of the First Battalion on 19 March 1921. Another report in the same file dated 22 February 1921 revealed that two men of the same battalion had earlier ‘attacked [a] Black and Tan and [a] spy in Blarney Street. Both enemy seriously wounded; both our men escaped.’ See Richard Mulcahy Papers, P7/A/38 (UCDA). This February report suggests the IRA had come to suspect him already, referring to him as a “spy”.
The Sheehan family has long argued that he was innocent and had been set up by his landlord. In testimony given at the inquest into his death, his wife Abina Sheehan declared that ‘the only enemy my husband had was a woman—Mrs Abina Walsh of 196 Blarney Street—who had threatened to shoot my husband. The house [in which the Sheehans lived] was rented from her. She had declared in my presence that she would have him shot: “I will get him another bullet” [she had allegedly said].’ Some members of the party engaged in the killing had used the house of Abina Walsh (a few doors down from the Sheehans’ dwelling) to make good their escape after climbing over their backyard wall close to where the shooting had occurred. The evidence given by John Walsh (her husband) at the inquest alleged that he had seen three men at the door of his neighbour Cornelius Sheehan. The same three men had subsequently entered his kitchen [Walsh’s] from the backyard and then disappeared onto the street. They had goggles, similar to motor goggles, the glass of which was a dark colour. One ‘spoke with a rough country accent’. A daughter of the victim testified that she had seen about a dozen men then leaving the scene of the killing and that they had gone in the direction of Blarney. See Military Inquests, WO 35/159B/3 (TNA). The military and police from Shandon Street arrived shortly after the killing and moved the body to the house. Later, a military lorry arrived, and the body was taken to Cork Military Barracks. See CE, 21 March 1921; CWN, 26 March 1921.
It is possible that the landlord had set up Cornelius Sheehan with false allegations about informing, which played on IRA suspicions raised by the initial shooting episode, more especially since Abina Walsh’s threat to have him killed was made the day before he was fatally shot. A high-ranking officer in the British army, in reacting to the inquest evidence, certainly felt that there were sufficient grounds to question Abina Walsh further on this specific threat. As a result of a subsequent case at the quarter sessions in which Abina Walsh sought to repossess the house, which had been condemned by medical doctors as unfit for habitation (she had been instructed to put it back in order by Cork Corporation), she argued that repairs could not be done until the Sheehans were ejected as they were using the woodwork as fuel, and maintained that she had not received rent since Sheehan had been killed. Mrs Sheehan and her children were now clearly in a very difficult situation and were dependent on the St Vincent de Paul Society. She claimed that the Walshes had never given her husband peace or rest until he was killed while they were trying to get the house back from him. See CC, 1 June 1921. Abina Sheehan continued to live in the dwelling on Blarney Street for a little over a year after her husband’s death. Her landlord alleged she retained connections with the “Tans” and left Ireland with them, and that her twenty-year-old daughter married a Tan. Abina Sheehan denied she ever entertained Crown forces, and family members today state that her daughter never married a policeman. Abina Sheehan moved out of the house in late March 1922 and stayed briefly with her brother before emigrating to London in early April 1922. While it is clear that her subsequent compensation claim for lost furniture was grossly exaggerated, much of the landlord’s allegations against her appear to havebeen maliciously motivated. See Fin/Comp/2/27/300. Abina Sheehan claimed in 1926 that “the reason they were down on her was owing to the killing of the Clogheen boys” (CE, 17 March 1926). Since the six “Clogheen boys” were killed by police four days after her husband’s death, it is very unlikely Sheehan provided information in that case.
Cornelius Sheehan’s killing prompted a claim for compensation from his wife and children. Compensation of £2,890 was paid out to her by March 1923 (CO 762/59/14, TNA). As a consequence she was able to set up a boarding house in London. In 1911 the asylum attendant Cornelius Sheehan (then aged 44) and his wife Abina (aged 30) resided with three young children (aged 1 to 6) in house 5 in Knocknacullen West in the parish of St Mary’s Shandon in Cork city. The Sheehans were Catholic
Patrick Smithwick 12.9.99 21 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Resigned 11.1.02
William Gill 12.9.99 24 years old. 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 15.8.00
Daniel O’Sullivan 12.9.99 Daniel Sullivan 20 years. 3rd Class attendant. Resigned 31.5.02
Timothy Barry 10.10.99 20 years old. 3rd Class attendant. Promoted Night Attendant 1.6.00. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.11.02
Tadhg (Timothy) was one of the ten children of the Behagullane farmer, county councillor, and widower Florence Crowley. His father had been ‘one of the most esteemed and popular members’ of the Board of Management of the Cork Lunatic Asylum for many years. Tadhg’s brother Jeremiah (Jerome) had succeeded to a place on the same board
Tadgh Barry was the last man to be shot during the War of Independence. He started work in the Cork District Lunatic Asylum in 1899. From nearby Blarney Street, he attended the North Mon before entering the service. He was quickly promoted to Second Class Attendant and was an active trade unionist with the Asylum Worker’s Union. It was during this time that he learned the lessons that made him one of Cork’s forgotten heroes. He remained as an attendant until 1903 when he left to become a journalist.
A GAA enthusiast- he wrote the first book about hurling, a Trade Unionist, a founder of Sinn Fein in Cork, a City Councillor, a nationalist, a friend of McSweeney and McCurtain, a soldier, Tadgh Barry was one busy man. Interned in 1921 at Ballykinlar camp for his republican activity, Barry was shot and killed by a sentry who claimed (wrongly) that he was trying to escape. His death took place just days before the truce which gave him the dubious distinction of being the last person killed by the British military during the War of Independence.
His funeral was one of the biggest seen in Cork. He is laid to rest in the Republican Plot at St. Finbar’s Cemetery.
James Donoghue 11.10.99 21 years old. Left 19.12.99
John Murphy 26.11.99 20 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant
Thomas Lee 19.11.99 21 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant
Timothy Walsh 5.12.99 21 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant. Resigned 4.1.00
Patrick Scully 16.12.99 20 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant
Thomas Dalton 16.12.99 27 years. Resigned 8.1.00 – called up to Army Reserve
Patrick Healy 21.12.99 25 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 13.11.00. Resigned 1.12.02
John Kelly 22.12.99 Temporary 2nd Class Attendant. Medical – Psychological Exam. 3rd Class Attendant 13.11.00. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 1.10.02. Outside Night Watchman Sept 1899
John O’Keeffe 22.12.99 30 years old. Temporary 3rd Class Attendant.1900
Margaret Spillane. Appointed 4.1.1899. Left 31.1.1899 – ill health
Nellie Geary. Appointed 4.1.1899. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.10.1901. Promoted Charge Attendant 1.8.1907. Died 1.1.1911
Kate Buckley. Appointed 11.1.1899. 22 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 6.1904. Promoted Charge Attendant 20.11.1906.. Pension 11..1927
Bridget Coleman. Appointed 12.1.1899. 22 years. Left 13.2.1904
Hannah Horgan. Appointed 13.1.1899. 23 years. Left 17.1.1899 – work unsuitable
Minnie Riordan. Appointed 14.1.1899.27 years. Promoted 2nd Class Attendant 2.6.1909. Left 17.10.1904 – going to take up nursing in England
Nora Long. Appointed 2.2.1899. 19 years. Temporary Attendant. Left 15.3.1899
Nora Crowley. Appointed 3.2.1899. 22 years. Left 13.9.1899
Nora Barrett. Appointed 4.2.1899. 21 years. Left 14.3.1899
Kate O’Flynn. Appointed 8.3.1899. Resigned 20.7.1899
Catherine Neil. Appointed 8.3.1899. Resigned 8.1901. Ill health
Ann Layman. Appointed 18.3.1899. Age over 50. Servant to Assistant Matron. Left 20.3.1899
Maura Murphy. Appointed 3.4.1899. SAMH (?) 2nd Class Attendant. Left to get married 1906.