Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series At Mallow petty sessions on 31 October 1893, two young Cork girls were committed to an industrial school at Kinsale, on the south coast of the county. They were committed on the grounds that they were found begging in the town on that day. The industrial school to which they were sent was run by the Mercy order of nuns, and the girls would remain there until they were sixteen years of age. Correspondence filed with their committal orders provides an insight into the circumstances under which they were committed. This short book examines the...
Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series At Mallow petty sessions on 31 October 1893, two young Cork girls were committed to an industrial...