UL secures pre-Famine health service manuscript

THE University of Limerick has acquired a pre-Famine manuscript detailing the operation of the health service in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century.

The Special Collections Department of the university’s Glucksman Libraryacquired the manuscriptaccount and report book of the Cratloe & Meelick Dispensary for the years 1835-1848.

It was acquired for the library by the Sylvester O’Halloran Postgraduate Centre at the Mid Western Regional Hospital and the John and Pauline Ryan-funded History of the Family Project at the college’s Department of History. The volume was presented to the library by Prof Pierce A Grace and Dr Ciara Breathnach.