WATERFORD SAVINGS BANK O’CONNELL STREET, WATERFORD
By Damian Murphy The Act to Encourage the Establishment of Banks for Savings in Ireland (1817) aimed to regulate what had been until then an amateurish, often risky, savings bank industry by limiting deposits to £50 per annum and requiring deposits to be lodged with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, the … Read more