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The Presentation Sisters were founded in Cork, in 1775, by Nano Nagle for the education of poor girls.
Presentation Convent Killarney was the second foundation of the congregation and the first in Kerry diocese.
In 1775 Reverend Francis Moylan was appointed Bishop of Kerry and he took up residence in Killarney. He became a great friend of the then Lord Kenmare - Thomas Browne who was a staunch Catholic. He was anxious to promote the education of the poor in the town therefore the bishop got every encouragement from Lord Kenmare to start a Catholic school. Having known Nano Nagle he aspired to found a Presentation Convent in Killarney.
In 1785, Francis Moylan, Bishop of Kerry, took note of an educated young girl residing in Killarney, who had a religious vocation. He sent her, Lucy Curtayne, to the South Presentation Convent, Cork, to be trained in the religious life, with a view to establishing a Presentation Convent in Killarney. On 2 October 1793, Lucy Curtayne, now, Mother Joseph Magdalen, accompanied by Sr M Teresa Lane of the South Presentation arrived in Killarney and opened school on the following Monday.
They took possession of three tenement houses in New Street and lived there until 1801 when due to some legal reason they were forced to leave. Then they rented a house for two years until 1803, while a convent and school were being built. They remained there for seventy-five years – while both numbers of Sisters and pupils grew. The fourth and final building occupied by the Presentation Sisters in Killarney was built on land given by the late Earl of Kenmare. The work on the building began in 1875. The Sisters took up residence in the new convent in 1878.
In 1809, Mother Joseph Curtayne left Killarney to start the Presentation Convent Tralee. In 1838, Mother Teresa Kelly founded Presentation Convent, Miltown and went from there to found Presentation Convent, Listowel in 1844. Sr. M. Clare Barry, who was professed in Killarney, went from Miltown to found Presentation Convent, Millstreet.
In 1833 the schools conducted by the Presentation Sisters in Killarney came under the Board of National Education. In 1887, the Primary schools were built. A Secondary School was established in 1948 and in 1951 a spacious modern building was built. In 1961, a second extension was built. Free Education and Free Transport were introduced by the government in 1967. In 1984, a third extension including a modern Gymnasium was completed.
In 1973 it was decided that the pupils and staff of Presentation Primary School would transfer to the Mercy Primary School until the new school opened in Ballycasheen in 1977 when some staff and one Presentation Sister started teaching there.
Presentation Convent Killarney joined the diocesan amalgamation in Kerry in 1927. In 1976 the Union of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary was established, and the Presentation Sisters in Killarney became members of the South West Province Ireland. From 1980 onwards there were less vocations to the Religious Life. Gradually the number of Sisters became less.
The convent closed on 17 November 2021. The five remaining Sisters were assigned to other convents in Kerry.
The collection consists of records relating to the Presentation Convent in Killarney from the foundation of the convent in 1793 to the closure of the convent in 2021. The subfonds includes material relating to the history of the Killarney community, the Primary School and the Secondary School, photographs, publications and correspondence. It also includes financial material which covers building works income and expenditure accounts, religious life and legal material.

The collection consists of records relating to the Presentation Community in Enniscorthy from its foundation in 1826 to the closure of the convent in 2001 and its subsequent conversion to a civic space. The fonds includes annals of the community, legal records which include insurance documents and property records including indentures and architectural drawings. It also includes financial records with an emphasis on tax, stocks and investments. The collection also consists of material relating to religious life, correspondence, a large collection of photographs, publications including historical journals and a small collection of artefacts. The collection includes a large number of files related to the ministry of the Sisters in Enniscorthy with an emphasis on education and the construction of the new convent schools.

The collection consists of records relating to the Presentation Community in Durrow from its foundation in 1914 until the sale of the convent in 1993 and the exit of the Presentation community in Durrow in 1997. The fonds includes material relating to the Durrow community including annals and visitor books as well as material relating to the administration of the convent and schools. It also includes correspondence, lectures and spiritual extracts, published works and a large body of photographic material.

The collection consists of records relating to the Presentation Community in Castlecomer from the foundation of the convent in 1829 to its closure in 2006/2007. The fonds includes material relating to the history of the convent including annals, the reception and profession of the Sisters, the Presentation convent schools and bequests to the convent. It also includes photographs, publications, correspondence and a large body of artefacts from the convent.

Includes; letters from Sr. M. Ignatius, Presentation Convent, Hardwick Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, during 1957 and 1958 to Sr. Catherine, giving an account of their foundations also earnestly requesting for postulants for the mission from Ireland; letters from Sr. M. Catherine, Presentation Convent, Livesey Street, Manchester dated 1956 and 1957 giving details of the foundation at New Moston, also looking for postulants for the mission, details of the three schools attached to Livesey Street; booklet entitled ‘ Review of Presentation Convents; notes on Presentation Convent Livesey Street, Manchester, notes on Presentation Convent Buxton, magazine ‘The Harvest’, a monthly magazine in aid of the Salford Catholic Protection and Rescue Society No.3 Vol. XLIX March 1936 includes an account of the Manchester Centenary 1936; letters from Sr. M. Augustine, Convent of the Presentation, Mount St. Mary’s, Pickering, during 1957 giving details of the foundation there; letters from Sr. M. Josephine, The Presentation Convent, High School Matlock, to Sr. Catherine and Fr. Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], giving details and the history of the foundations in India and Southern Rhodesia; diagrams of the foundations; and a Brief History of English Foundation of the Presentation Order.

Includes; booklet on ‘The Pudapet Convent School of Commerce’, Marshall Road, Egmore, Madras, Prospectus, (14th Edition) 1935 -1936; Rules for Lady Students’ Hostel, Marshall Road, Egmore; newspaper cuttings, ‘Presentation Nuns, Activities of the Order in Kashmir’, ‘First Catholic School’; ’The Presentation Order Branch House Opened at Srinagar, Kashmir’, ‘Maynooth Link With India’, from Standard 24 June 1955; details of the foundations in the south of India; titular's of convents and schools in Southern Rhodesia, North India and Pakistan; developments in Southern India 1936; letter from M. Augustine, Presentation Convent, Pudapet, Madras, 2 April 1936 including an account of Presentation Convent, Pudapet; note stating that Pudapet and Egmore are the same place; lists of the convents and schools in India dated 1951 , includes a map of India; diagram of the foundations made from Georgetown, Madras, 1842; and newspaper cutting from ‘The Examiner’, 13 August 1938 giving accounts of Sr. Columba O’ Sullivan, in Quetta, India.

Includes; old handwritten page giving permission for the Religious of the Sacred Heart to be buried in the Church Yard of the Ursuline and dated 27 April 1784; newspaper cuttings with the headings, ’Ursuline Convent, Blackrock. A Retrospect’. 1925, ‘Nuns take over a new school – and without pay’ 25 April 1958, Irish Nuns Leave To Teach In Kenya; notes concerning Miss Coppinger of Nano Nagle’s Ursulines; notes on Rental 1860; notes on the Ursuline Sisters; notes on the Ursuline Convents in Ireland and their missions abroad; letters from the Ursuline Convents in Blackrock, Cork, Thurles and Sligo to Father Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], in 1957; notes on Rental of Thurles estate , 1842; The Irish Ursulines 1771 – 1957, Foundation of the Mother House; and Filiation of the Irish Ursulines.

Includes; Wills; property deeds; charters; investments, birth and baptismal certificates; legacies.

Includes maps of Presentation Convents in; Ireland; Australia; Africa; Newfoundland; U.S.A.; diocesan map of Ireland.

Includes; history of the Presentation presence in Victoria and motivations for going there, development of the Order from "enclosed" to a more community based form of living, the development of the Presentation schools (authored by Kathleen Dunlop Kane).