Identity area
Reference code
IE PVBM SPC/IE PBVM/SPC/1/4/1/4/1/5
Title
Early correspondence between Presentation Sisters and Irish Catholic Church hierarchy.
Date(s)
- Copies of documents dating from 1802 - 1846 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
21 pages.
Context area
Name of creator
(1600-2023)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes; letter from Mother Clare Callaghan to Bishop Coppinger; letter from Dr. Moylan, Bishop of Cork to Dr Troy Archbishop of Dublin, dated 7 November 1788, giving details of Nano Nagle’s life and the mission of the Ursuline and Presentation Sisters; copy of a letter written on 3 February 1814 by Mother Clare Callaghan of the South Presentation Convent, Cork, to Mother Mary Joseph MC Loughlin, foundress of the Presentation Convent, Kilkenny, the subject of the letter is the death of Dean Robert McCarthy, V. G. last superior of the Irish college at Toulouse. He helped the Presentation Sisters through early difficult days and photocopy of a letter from T.P. Bigger to M. F. Tobin, dated 21 August 1802.