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Presentation convent, Ballingarry, Co.Tipperary

The convent of the Presentation Sisters.
Some distance W of Ballingarry, Co.Tipperary.
The convent is now abandoned.
But the school beside it, Presentation Secondary School, Ballingarry, still thrives.
There is a convent graveyard with memorial crosses for the nuns.
See survey of graves at historicgraves.com. See graveyard map.

Family members who were nuns here:

• Jo Humphrys (Johanna, "Sister M. Aloysius", bapt 1852) was a nun here.
  She is here in 1901 (and probably much earlier, maybe since the 1870s).
  She died here in 1915 and was buried in convent cemetery here.

• Her niece Sr. Margaret Mary Humphreys (bapt 1870) became a nun here in 1889 or 1891.
  She was a nun here for over 70 years.
  She died in 1965 and was buried in convent cemetery here.

• Mary Coffey ("Sister Mary Aloysius", born 1870) was possibly a nun here at one time, but this is uncertain.
  She was definitely a nun in Clonmel, where she died in 1915.

Ballingarry convent on 1887 to 1913 map.
Note "Cemetery" to the N side of the convent. This is the location where the memorial crosses are now.

The location on modern satellite view.
The convent to the S is abandoned and being redeveloped.
The school to the N is open.
The graveyard with the memorial crosses is at the boundary, the plot to the right of the red roofed buildings.
See modern street view.

Grave of Sr. M. Aloysius Humphrys (died 1915), Ballingarry convent cemetery.
Grave says 1913, which is apparently an error.
Photo 2012. See full size. From historicgraves.com.

Grave of Sr. Margaret Mary Humphreys (died 1965), Ballingarry convent cemetery.
Photo 2012. See full size. From historicgraves.com.