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From: "Donnacha O'Briain-De Grant" <>
Subject: : RE: [Cork] Fermoy/British Military
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:50:21 -0400


Hi Mand,
Another source (from Michael Cronin) has the hospital being built with the
first barracks. It's possible that a hospital function was being carried on
early in the life of the barracks prior to a formal hospital being
constructed. I have never considered whether the entry on the Pay List
meant 'hospital' literally in the sense in which we would mean it today;
possibly not.

In addition, "when both barracks were complete there was accommodation for
14 field officers, 169 officers, 2816 men, and 152 horses." The town of
Fermoy grew in proportion, expanding around the barracks. Prior to the
advent of the barracks it had been an unremarkable village.


Regards,

Donnacha

> From: M Hankins <>
> To: Donnacha O'Briain-De Grant <>;

> Subject: RE: [Cork] Fermoy/British Military
> Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 6:25 PM
>
> Thank you Donnacha for giving us a much clearer picture of the military
> life in Fermoy.
> Could the hospital been there a little earlier? His payroll records have
> Richard Ringer in hospital at Fermoy during the April-June quarter of
1810.
> Unfortunately I haven't been lucky enough to go there yet so can't
> visualize whether it would have been a little village or a town big enough
> to have it's own hospital during that time, and able to accommodate the
> military.
> There is so little information about the lives of non-officers in the
> regimental records that it is pure gold when someone contributes material
> that sheds a little light.
>
> Regards,
> Marjorie.


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