1870 – Chapel, Sisters of Charity, Stanhope Street, Dublin

Ornate chapel in brick and stone adjacent to a range of convent buildings, some of which still exist. The church, with its distinctive spire, is gone. Demolished circa 1980.

One of the infamous laundries where young women were used as slave labour by the convent, built 1870, now in use as sheltered housing although during the investigations, the Sisters of Charity continued to insist that it was a training school and not a laundry. “There were 10 Magdalene laundries that were the subject of the McAleese Report. Stanhope Street was not a Magdalene laundry, it was a Training School and had a laundry attached,” said a spokesperson for the Department of Justice, Cathal Redmond. Eventually the school was added to the list.