Listowel Connection: Nano Nagle Place, Old Piseogs and Carrigkerry

Chris Grayson

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Old Cork

This photo was not taken today or yesterday. I think it's the 1960s and these are tourist caravans on the Western Road outside the Ear Nose and Throat hospital. The street is now one way.

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The Legacy of Nano Angle and The Presentation Sisters

In Listowel we have a memorial to the work of the nuns centralised in our town square. We were lucky to have both Presentation and Mercy sisters helping to educate and care for generations of Listowel people.

The mission of the Presentation sisters was to educate the young ladies of North Kerry and I was privileged to work with them for many years.

Nano Nagle, who founded the Presentation sisters was a Cork woman. The order now has converted their South Presentation school and convent into a magnificent heritage centre. I was there with my daughter, Cliona, a Pres girl, on Heritage Day 2018

Impressive, isn't it?

The nuns' burial ground with its uniform headstones reminded me of the graves I've seen in pictures of a battlefield.

It was a bit of a shock to see a grave with a family name. I don't know if she was any relation.

This was a surprise. I can't imagine how she came to be buried here in South Pres.

The convent garden is wonderful with borders of lavender on which bees were at work.

In the museum there were artefacts and photos from Presentation communities around the world.There was a stamp from Listowel and a roll book from South Pres.