School: Inis Sionnach (Haulbowline) (roll number 3195)
- Location:
- Haulbowline Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Hiarfhlatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 204
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“The fort on Haulbowline frequently changed hands to the Royalists, the Roundheads, the Jacobites and the Williamites.”
(continued from previous page)Army Ordnance Department. They themselves took in Rat or Creach island on the eastern side and commenced building storehouses in 1810.
The island is still divided into two main portions and they are known as the Naval Side and the Ordnance Side or more commonly as the "Navy" and the "Army".
Between 1816 and 1823 Naval and Ordnance works were constructed on the island. The naval works were executed under contract by Sir Thomas Deane. They consisted of six store house, a tank of six compartments capable of holding 1,056,000 gallons, two large store houses for the Ordnance works, gun-carriage yard with smiths', carpenters', shipwrights' coppersmiths' fitter's etc shops. During the erection of the works Sir Thomas Deane died and Lady Deane successfully undertook the completion of the contract.
Convicts from Spike Island worked on this contract Haulbowline was once again fortified in 1845 and made an Ordnance Depot. The Lords of the Admiralty made it the only Naval Victualling depot in Ireland.
- Informant
- Gearóid Ó Hiarfhlatha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Máistir scoile
- Informant
- J.C. Fitzpatrick
- Informant
- J. O' Grady