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Religious Training

  • 26-04-2012 8:48pm
    #1
    binxeo
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    Is there anyway to find out where someone would have trained to become a nun in Donegal in the early 1900's?

    My mums aunt was Sister Columba who worked in Ballymahon Boarding school, She was there when my mum was there so that would have been 1956 ish!!

    Any and all advice welcome. :)


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  • #2
    Coolnabacky1873
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    Just basing this answer on my own local history research, but doesn't a woman 'train' to become a nun in the actual convent?

    The priests have seminaries but I don't know if there are equivalent for nuns? It's not something I am too well up on though so could be wrong.

    Diocesan archives might be worth a shot for some information.


  • #3
    pinkypinky
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    No, nuns went as postulants to convents to train. But depending on what order she went into, she might have done her training in some other part of the country. Finding the order is the key. If there's any photos of her in habit, they might have some identifier.

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  • #4
    P. Breathnach
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    Finding the order is the easy bit: the school in Ballymahon was run by the Sisters of Mercy.

    Nuns had novitiates in some of their convents. A girl who "entered" in Donegal might have been sent to a novitiate in Limerick or in Dublin or elsewhere. The majority of entrants were former students of schools run by the order.


  • #5
    binxeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭binxeo


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    Finding the order is the easy bit: the school in Ballymahon was run by the Sisters of Mercy.

    Nuns had novitiates in some of their convents. A girl who "entered" in Donegal might have been sent to a novitiate in Limerick or in Dublin or elsewhere. The majority of entrants were former students of schools run by the order.

    Thanks for the replies guys.

    So chances are the school she went to she became a nun in and then she moved to Longford. So I am looking for a Sisters of Mercy school near her home town in Donegal then I suppose.

    Does anyone know what the chances are of the school/convent she trained in still having her records??


  • #6
    CeannRua
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    The Mercy Sisters have a central archive in Dublin. That would be the place to ask rather than the local convent I think.


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  • #7
    binxeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭binxeo


    CeannRua wrote: »
    The Mercy Sisters have a central archive in Dublin. That would be the place to ask rather than the local convent I think.

    That I did not know, that is super, thanks very much. I will have to look into that today if I get time. Cheers :)


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