School: St Brigid's, Castleknock

Location:
Castleknock, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Mrs Thornton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 136

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  1. Blanchardstown has had associations now perhaps forgotten.
    At the period of the erection of the the Church The Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation (now at Hamton Drumcondra) stood near by, obviously a foundation from St Joseph's Convent Ranelagh. It's first Prioress was Mother Mary Francis de Sales (Stuart) who, in, 1823 at the latter convent had been vouchsaved a miraculous restoration to health, attested upon a memorial slab in the convent chapel Blachardstown where she died and was interred 1832. The wording of the inscription should be of happy interest during there
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Location
    Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin
    Collector
    Monica O' Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mrs O' Reilly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin