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Form of the Visiting Governor's Report for the Week-Ending

PLACES VISITED.
OBSERVATIONS.
Boys' School Room,  
Work Shops,  
Hospital,  
Dining-Hall,  
Kitchen,  
Quarter-Master's Store of Provifions,  
Girls School Room,  
Laundry,  
Dormitories,  
Dairy,  
Farm and Farm Yard,  
 
Establishment of The Royal Hibernian Military School, Phoenix Park
 
  Total  
Men
1 Commandant.
  1 Assistant Treasurer.
  1 Adjutant and Secretary.
  1 Quarter-Master.
  1 Chaplain and Superintendant of Morals.
  1 Surgeon.
  1 Assistant Surgeon.
  1 Serjeant-Major of Instruction.
  5 Serjeant Assistants.
  1 Quarter-Master Serjeant.
  1 Serjeant Taylor.
  1 Serjeant Gardener
  10 Serjeant Artificers
  1 Serjeant Porter.
  1 Serjeant Messenger.
  1 Serjeant Baker.
  1 Corporal Pioneer.
  1 Assistant Cook.
  1 Drummer.
Women
1 Matron.
  10 School-mistress.
  1 Cook.
  1 Laundress and Dairymaid.
  1 Hospital Nurse.
Children
438 Boys.
  162 Girls.
Total
600  
  50 Cows.
  3 Horses.


Note:
The cows are allowed by Government to graze in the Phoenix-Park.

There are four Out-Door Workmen employed throughout the Year, and receive weekly the Wages of the Country; and are disposed of thus - A Plowman - A Carter - and two to Labour. The Plowman has charge of two of the Horses, at constant Work in the Grounds ploughing and drawing dung. The Carter has charge of the third Hose used for Marketing, and conveying various Articles to and from Dublin. The Carter also assists the Corporal Pioneers in Foddering, Herding, and Milking the Cows, and keeping clean the Farm Yard. The Labourers assist the Gardener in such Work as the Boys are unable to perform.


Table of Contents - Royal Hibernian Military School
Introduction
1769 Petition
1806 Pay and Allowances
1806 Weekly Governor's Report
1806 Time Table
1819 Charter
1819 Diet
1819 Staff Duties
1819 General Regulations
1844 Return of Religions
1849 S.S. Pemberton Orphans
1856 School Inspector Gleig
1857 China
1873 Religion
1900 Review at Phoenix Park
1918 Lost Boys
1919 Roll of Honour
1919 Recollections
1919 Lives of the Hibernians
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
1922 Last cricket match
1924 A soldier's orphan's story
1924 Last roll call
1924 Laying up the colours
1924 The final era
1937 A military misfit NEW
1969 The bicentenary reunion
1994 Capt. Harry Bloomer MBE
2001 IGS No.25 History
2004 Newsletter
2005 The last known Hibernian
2007 Sources of Hibernian documents
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