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Letter from John Kenny, Mungret Model Farm to Stephen de Vere, Foynes. Kenny has been promoted to the Munster Model Farm and wishes to settle the matter of income tax paid by him between 1854 and 1860 on behalf of the Model Farm.

Letter from J. Baldwin, Glasnevin to [John] Kenny relating to a financial transaction.

Letter from John Kenny, Superintendent, Limerick Agricultural School to J. G. Barry, providing information on the pupils currently present at the school.

Letters from W. H. Newell, Secretary, Office of National Education, [Dublin] to Lord Emly, Tervoe. Lord Emly’s letter of 3 September (now not present) containing suggestions for the future conduct of the Mungret Model Agricultural School and Farm has been discussed at a board meeting. They regret that they cannot adopt the proposal to limit the agricultural instruction to eight hours weekly and to provide instruction in Latin, as the chief object of the school is to provide agricultural instruction. The board are equally unable to adopt the proposal to reserve only five acres of the farm and to let the remainder to tenants. The Commissioners instruct the trustees to remit any balance on hands after the payment of rates on the interest on £1,000, which will be used for the purchase of books, implements and other requisites for the school and farm. Also Lord Emly’s draft reply, expressing the opinion that the results of the present system of agricultural instruction are scandalously bad, and if the system is not to be subverted then the school should be suppressed. He adds that the trustees have no power over the institution, but this fact is not known to the public, wherefore some of the discredit attaching to the current waste of resources falls on the trustees.

Letter from W. H. Newell, Secretary, Education Office, [Dublin] to James G. Barry, Sandville, Grange, Kilmallock, acknowledging Barry’s request for a copy of the trust deed of the Limerick Model Farm and informing him that a copy of it will be supplied as soon as it can be made.

Letters from Lord Emly, Atheneum Club, Pall Mall, [London] SW and John R. Tinsley, Sun Fire Office, Limerick to J. G. Barry, Sandville, Grange, Kilmallock relating to the valuation of the Mungret Model Farm house and offices for insurance purposes.

Correspondence between W. H. Newell, Secretary, Education Office, [Dublin], John Kenny, Model Farm, [Limerick] and J. G. Barry, Sandville, Grange, Kilmallock relating to the sale of root crops currently growing on the Mungret Model Farm. Also see P101/2/9/9.

Letter from John Kenny, Model Farm to J. G. Barry enclosing a map showing the cropping of the farm for the present year and outlining the negative consequences of grass seeds not having been sown in three of the sections shown on the map.

Letter from J. H. Bourke, Dublin Castle to Lord Emly, Tervoe, Limerick acknowledging that a deed dated 10 December 1859 between the trustees and the Commissioners; and a copy deed of appointment of new trustees dated 5 February 1868 have been returned to Thomas Kenny Solicitor.

Letter signed by Thomas Hogan, Jeremiah Bresnahan, John Kennedy and Michael Hayes, local parishioners of Mungret and committee members of the Mungret Male National School, addressed to the trustees of the late Mungret National Agricultural school. The document outlines the history of the male and female national schools in Mungret. The petitioners point out that wherever an agricultural school was opened, a national school was also opened as a working part of the establishment and no case is known except that in Mungret where the school was closed by the board. The writers express the hope that ‘the Trustees will find out some way of repairing the original justice done to this parish of Mungret in its Educational interests’. Also a draft answer to the memorial prepared by Thomas H. Kenny Solicitor.