Date: 21st July 1914

Bank of Ireland Five Pound Note, Type 1 – Thirteenth Issue, dated 21st July 1914

Description:

When the 13th issue of Bank of Ireland banknotes were first issued in 1908, there were 65 branches in the network, incl. seven new branches :-

• 1903: Athlone, Ballymena and Fermoy
• 1904: Coleraine, Tuam and Dunmanway
• 1907: Belturbet

Between 1908 and 1918, the number of branches went up to sixty-six:-

• 1911: Trim
• 1913: Dunmanway closed
• 1917: Cookstown (not listed on notes) and Newtownards (added in 1915?)
  • £20 notes dated 1915 with Newtownards listed have been recorded
• 1917: Dunmanway re-opened (but the name did not re-appear on the notes)

The last release of notes included some 66 branches

The note illustrated is a Type 1, 1914 Bank of Ireland (Thirteenth Issue), Five Pounds note, dated 21st July 1914, S/N: T-11 88105, with the printed signature of signature of W.H. Baskin.

Obverse:

• Hibernia and Medusa heads
• 65 Branches listed in 5 lines of Roman script, in red ink
  • This is a Type 1 note, i.e. Newtownards is not listed (yet)
• Printed signature of William Haughton Baskin

Branches: 65 (or 66 in later prefixes)

1. Arklow
2. Armagh
3. Athlone (opened in 1903)
4. Bagnalstown
5. Ballybay
6. Ballina
7. Ballinasloe
8. Ballinrobe
9. Ballymena (opened in 1903)
10. Banagher
11. Bandon
12. Belfast
13. Belturbet (opened in 1907)
14. Boyle
15. Callan
16. Carlow
17. Castlebar
18. Castleblayney
19. Cavan
20. Charleville
21. Clonakilty
22. Clones
23. Clonmel
24. Coleraine (opened in 1904)
25. Cookstown (opened in 1917 but never listed on ’13th Issue’ banknotes)
26. Cork
27. Drogheda
28. Dundalk
29. Dunmanway (opened in 1904)
    1. Closed in 1913 (name dropped from list)
    2. Re-opened in 1917 (name does not re-appear on list)
30. Ennis
31. Enniscorthy
32. Fermoy (opened in 1903)
33. Galway
34. Gorey
35. Kilbeggan
36. Kilkenny
37. Limerick
38. Listowel
39. Londonderry (Derry)
40. Longford
41. Mallow
42. Maryborough (Port Laoise)
43. Midleton
44. Mitchelstown
45. Mountbellew
46. Mountmellick
47. Mullingar
48. Navan
49. New Ross
50. Newry
51. Newtownards
52. Omagh
53. Portadown
54. Queenstown (Cobh)
55. Roscommon
56. Roscrea
57. Skibbereen
58. Sligo
59. Thurles
60. Tipperary
61. Tralee
62. Trim (opened in 1911)
63. Tuam (opened in 1904)
64. Tullamore
65. Waterford
66. Westport
67. Wexford
68. Youghal

Country:

• Ireland

Category:

• Early Irish Banknotes
  • Bank of Ireland
    • Thirteenth Issue (1908-1919)
      • Ten Pounds

Further Reading:

• Check-list of Bank of Ireland Notes