St. Monica's Asylum for the Blind, Infirmary Road, Cork

[Mary G]

'Asylum for the Blind’
Infirmary Road
Cork

From OSi National Townland and Historical Map Viewer.
MapGenie 25 Inch [1887-1913] (in Basemap Gallery).

https://arcg.is/jvOCW0

Thank you so much.

That's exactly where I remember my mother pointing it out to me, when I was a child.

Thank you.

[hanes teulu]

Southern Reporter & Cork Commercial Courier, 17 Dec 1859

COUNTY AND CITY OF CORK
ASYLUM FOR THE INDUSTRIOUS BLIND
Contracts Required
Rounds of good beef without bone for 12 months, from 8 January, at    per lb
Boiling milk for 12 months at, from 1st January, at      per gallon
Household bread, best, for three months, from 1st January, at     per 4lb
Proposals to be sent to the Steward, on Saturday, 24 December, instant
Richard Dowden (Rd), Honorary Secretary
Asylum Infirmary Road, Dec 17th, 1859


Specifying quality goods (not that they were quality when delivered!) is so contrary to the impression given of Victorian Institutions.
"The Industrious Blind" features frequently when this institution appears in the newspapers.

[Mary G]

Southern Reporter & Cork Commercial Courier, 17 Dec 1859

COUNTY AND CITY OF CORK
ASYLUM FOR THE INDUSTRIOUS BLIND
Contracts Required
Rounds of good beef without bone for 12 months, from 8 January, at    per lb
Boiling milk for 12 months at, from 1st January, at      per gallon
Household bread, best, for three months, from 1st January, at     per 4lb
Proposals to be sent to the Steward, on Saturday, 24 December, instant
Richard Dowden (Rd), Honorary Secretary
Asylum Infirmary Road, Dec 17th, 1859


Specifying quality goods (not that they were quality when delivered!) is so contrary to the impression given of Victorian Institutions.
"The Industrious Blind" features frequently when this institution appears in the newspapers.

Thank you.

That's exactly what I'm doing now, is going through the newspapers.   I hadn't realised it was opened in 1841.

Thank you again for your help.