Cork County Committee of Agriculture Descriptive List

CC/CM/AG/

1918)

Division of County Cork into districts for the instruction of horticulture and

beekeeping (19 October 1918)

Recognition of Dáil Eireann as the duly elected government of the Irish people

(3 July 1920)

Adjournment of committee meeting in protest of the inhumane treatment of

the Lord Mayor of Cork and other Irish republican prisoners (11 September

1920)

Grant to the University College Cork (9 October 1920)

Consideration of the counties food supplies (4 December 1920)

The celebration of Arbour week (12 November 1921)

A warning to farmers against breeding bacon pigs from black boars (2 February

1922)

The scarcity of woods in County Cork (13 May 1922)

Damage and destruction caused by the National Army at Castletownbere (12

May 1923)

Classes at the Muster Agricultural Society’s Summer Show (11 August 1923)

Proposed establishment of a reference library (12 April 1924)

Death of the Bishop of Ross (14 June 1924)

Call from the Port Laois Committee of Agriculture for the government to press

against the case of a higher price for Irish grown barley to Messrs Guinness &

Co. (12 July 1924)

Proposal to turn the unemployed, receiving the dole in county towns and rural

areas to such productive work as lime burning (13 August 1924)

Loans for the improvement of farm horses (14 March 1925)

Establishment of a sugar beet factory (11 April 1925)

Continuation education for those that have to live on the land (18 August 1925)

Conference report on prices of home grown grain (12 September 1925)

CC/CM/AG/2/4.

9 January 1926 – 4 December 1937, (200 pp)

Includes:

Proposed cattle market for Cork (8 May 1926)

Distribution of land at Ballincollig Barracks (8 May 1926)