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1. Special Report

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   SPECIAL REPORT, BY J. G. FLEMING, ESQ.,

   DISTRICT INSPECTOR,

   UPON THE KINSALE FEMALE INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL SCHOOL.

   Cork, March 1, 1855.

   Gentlemen,
   I beg to submit, for the information of the Commissioners, this, my first Special Report upon the Kinsale Girls' Industrial National School for the year ended 31st December, 1854.

   This admirable institution was established by the Sisters of Mercy, in August, 1847 -- a sad epoch in our history -- for it was then the consequences of the first general blight of the potato crop were most severely felt, and the benevolent of every persuasion set themselves to work to see how the sufferings of the poorer classes might be mitigated. It will not, I conceive, be deemed irrelevant to the subject of this Report to mention that during the famine years, as they are so justly styled, the loss of the potato crop was followed by more suffering in the maritime or coast districts than in the inland and better-cultivated counties. Hence the misery and wretchedness of the humble class in small, isolated sea-ports such as Kinsale, were for a time, trying beyond description.

   At this melancholy period the Kinsale Industrial School became the source of temporary relief and of future hope to many wretched families, who must have sunk under the difficulties of their position but for the assistance so timely afforded --- all kinds of food

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