[10][11] The earliest surviving minute book dates back to 1886, detailing the organisation of the summer show at the Corn Exchange, in Cork city.

[14] Whilst undertaking agricultural research in Limerick City, John Gregory, the author of Industrial Resources of Wisconsin (1872), encountered and was aided in his work by Stafford O'Brien, a resident of Co. Clare.

O'Brien then held the position of honorary secretary of the Munster Agricultural Society, and was the paternal uncle of both William Smith-O'Brien and Lord Inchiquin.

In a House of Commons (UK Parliament) debate of the Potato Crop Committee on 25 April 1882, English industrialist and statesman William Edward Forster pointed out to two experiments run on the Model Farm by the organisation.

[21] In a House of Commons debate in 1900, Horace Plunkett, then vice-president of the Department of Agriculture for Ireland, supported the Munster Dairy School & Agricultural Institute, stating, "the Department fully intends that in the development of the Institute every feature of its work which has been found of utility to the farming community, such as itinerant dairy instruction, will be continued".

[34] Cork Corporation originally provided the land as a permanent home for the showground and the society spent £5,300 laying out the grounds and building the necessary structures.

Dan Boyle said that the Council's sale to the GAA, being a non-public body, for a big loss, should be investigated by An Bord Pleanala.

[52] In 1922, Clarke, in the capacity of president, along with the city solicitor, dealt with Henry Ford to build the Centre Park Road in the Marina, Cork.

[55] According to the American Political Science Review, in 1938, following the reconstitution of Seanad Éireann (replacing the original Seanad of the Irish Free State, founded under the 1922 Constitution), the upper-house of the Irish parliament (the Oireachtas), the Munster Agricultural Society became one of the three original nominating bodies for the Senate's Agricultural Panel constituency.

[7] Major-General William Bertram Bell of Fota House, Cork, was president of the society from the early 1950s until the late 1960s, stepping down at 87 years of age.

[60] The Society’s Eatonstown Perpetual Cup in equestrianism was donated and presented annually by member Anne Winifred Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster.

[63] In 1988, the society announced that it was building a new indoor stadium in Ballintemple at a cost of IR£1 million, which the Irish Press described as the City's "biggest ever venue for conferences and concerts.

[69] The MAS relocated from its long-standing headquarters at the Showgrounds in Ballintemple after being compelled to do so by a compulsory purchase order issued by Cork City Council.

During that period, there had been some public objections to the relatively low amount accepted for the seven-acre property, since it was seen a much lower price than what Cork City Council had awarded the MAS.

[70] In 2013, the Munster Agricultural Society toured an Olympic-sized equestrian complex, formerly owned by John Gilligan, a well-known criminal in Ireland.

[76] Cork City Council was criticised for attempting to sell a gate lodge to the former site of the Munster Dairy & Agricultural Institute on Model Farm Road.

That year, it was reported that the Munster Dairy School & Agricultural Institute had organised a "generous prize fund of €2,500" for awards relating to innovation.

[77] In January 2020, Cork County Council granted planning permission for the society to build an indoor events centre in Curraheen.

[84] In 2023, the Tánaiste, Micheál Martin, inaugurated a scientific partnership involving the society and University College Cork (UCC).

The agreement is intended to facilitate the establishment of a farmland biodiversity teaching and research initiative inside the agricultural science department at UCC.