TN-CVMY-0024

Record Date: 
19 August 2013
Graveyard: 
Convent of the Sisters of Mercy Cemetery
Exact wording of epitaph: 

REVEREND  MOTHER

MARY  JOSEPH  WALSH

DIED  AUGUST  10TH 1886

AGED  68 YEARS

HAVING  GOVERNED  THE

COMMUNITY  AS  SUPERIORESS

FOR  24 YEARS.

R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Cast iron and wrought iron memorials
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.796698055556
Longitude: 
-7.8281280555556
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
N/a
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Reverend Mother
Name: 
Rev.Mother Mary Joseph ( Hannah Walsh )
Surname: 
Walsh
Date of birth - year: 
1818
Date of death - day: 
10
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1886
Age: 
68
Address: 
Convent of the Sisters of Mercy,Templemore
Notes: 

Mother Mary Joseph ( Hannah Walsh )

Parents were Thomas and Johanna Walsh, Gloucestershire, England,

Date of entry to Sisters of Mercy in Rutland St. Cork, ( St.Maries of the Isle ),- 8th Dec.1849,

Date of 1st Profession - 28th April 1852,

Rev.Mother Mary Joseph Walsh was the first superioress of the Sisters of Mercy

in Templemore.

Her name is entered in Southern Register 1896 ,

She obviously returned to Cork.