Both the minute books and financial records provide an insight into the schemes which were operated by the County Committee with the approval of the Department of Agriculture, including agricultural and horticultural instruction, poultry keeping, butter making, bee keeping, a fruit tree scheme, fox eradication, rabbit extermination, tillage, shelter belt and lime and sea sand subsidy schemes, breeding schemes for cattle, horses, pigs and sheep. References are also made to agricultural colleges including the Albert College at Glasnevin and the Munster Institute.
Also present is the Committee’s annual report for 1931.
Arrangement 1. Attendance Registers 1953 – 1978 (2 items)
2. Minute Books 1901 -1980 (13 items)
3-10: Financial Records 1902 - 1963 (23 items)
11. Annual Report 1931
Conditions of Access and Use Access: Open for research by appointment for those holding a current readers ticket
Language: English, some Irish
Finding Aids: Descriptive List
Related Material CCCA:
CC Archives of Cork County Council (Minute Books, and County Secretary Files)
U619 Munster Dairy School and Agricultural Institute
PR4/2/18 Letter from Terence MacSwiney re: timber in Ballyvourney Woods
B609 Bennett’s of Ballinacurra
CP/CO/M Cork City Council Minute Books
BG - various Board of Guardian records for Cork County
SM649 Industrial and Agricultural Fair, Cork, 1932
Elsewhere:
UCC Library:
Annual Reports of Cork County Committee of Agriculture, 1968 – 1969, 1979
Agriculture and the County Cork: report 1981, programme 1982 / ACOT and Cork County Committee of Agriculture
Agriculture and the County Cork: report 1982, programme 1983 / ACOT and Cork County Committee of Agriculture
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