Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

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B609/9/F/1 File on Dorothy McNeill’s involvement in the Church of Ireland All Ireland Youth Council, and other church-related items, 1932-77. The file contains minutes, letters, circulars, and some printed matter. Includes the following items: Minute book of the Diocesan Council of Youth for Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Begins with minutes of a meeting to consider the formation of a Conference for Youth in the dioceses, and contains minutes of the subsequent conference, and of meetings to elect delegates to the All Ireland Youth Council and to church conferences (9 December 1931- 25 April 1933). Correspondence of the Diocesan Council of Youth, Dorothy Trevor McNeill the honorary secretary . Includes letters from members, a note on the Council of Youth in Down and Connor and Dromore, and information on conferences. (September 1932- December 1933) Correspondence with Robert M Bourke, Secretary of the All Ireland Council of Youth, regarding local activities, Council meetings and church conferences, and preparation of a leaflet and pamphlet [copies present]. In a letter of 9 September 1935, following a long silence, Dorothy McNeill explains to Bourke that the Cork Council of Youth ‘is to all intents and purposes dead’. She notes that in most parishes the congregation is small and there are few young people, but stresses that they do their ‘fair share’ in parochial activities. (June 1933-September 1935) Letter from the St Patrick Memorial Missionary Fund, 35 South Frederick Street, Dublin, with enclosures, asking Miss McNeill to consider acting on the sub-committee for the Fund in her diocese (31 January 1934). Minutes of meetings of the Committee on Churches of the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Mrs Dorothy West acted as secretary. Also present is a printed Report of the Committee to the Diocesan Synod, 1977. (November 1976-September 1977).

B609/9/F/2 Letter, 23 October 1935, to Miss McNeill from Herbert Ward, Ardeekin, Portstewart, Co Londonderry, regarding John H Bennett and Bennett family connections.

B609/9/F/3 Unsigned and undirected letter, 14 February 1967, probably by Dorothy West, regarding a meeting with Wallis Hutton of AGS at which he outlined his company’s ‘blue-print’ for the future of the maltings in Ballinacurra. AGS propose building three fully mechanised facilities at locations where 120000 barrels per annum are handled. As JHB only handles about 50000, its maltings

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