Fermoy museum to focus on 200-year army link

A TOWN steeped in military history is to commemorate it by opening up a museum which will be dedicated to a 200-year association with the British and Irish armies.

Fermoy in Co Cork first became a garrison town in 1798 and during WWI it housed at one stage 14,000 troops stationed in training camps in the town and at nearby Kilworth.

The Irish army moved into Fitzgerald Camp in 1948 and occupied it for the next 50 years, until the Government closed the facility as part of a barracks rationalisation programme in 1998.