Convent of Mercy

1750c – Claremount, Claremorris, Co. Mayo

Built in the 18th century, this house was the home of George Browne, third son of the 1st Earl of Altamont,

1827 – Mercy International Centre, Baggot Street, Dublin

In 1824, with the blessing of Dublin’s Archbishop Daniel Murray, Catherine McAuley bought land on Lower Baggot Street,

1851 – St. Maries of the Isle Mercy Convent, Sharman Crawford St., Cork

Published in The Building News, December 7 1850. Constructed in red sandstone with limestone dressings. The proposed spire was never completed.

1855 – Former Convent of Mercy, Ardee, Co. Louth

Built in the mid-1850s, the convent was designed by John Neville, County Surveyor for Louth. The three-storey seven-bay block built of coursed rubble features with an attractive cut limestone single-storey porch in Perpendicular style.

1860s – Convent of Mercy, Skibbereen, Co. Cork

Catherine McCauley founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831 in Dublin to care for the poor and the sick and to educate poor children.

1863 – Convent of Mercy, Templemore, Co, Tipperary

Opened in 1863, with the chapel added later by George C. Ashlin.

1864 – Convent of Mercy Chapel, Society St., Ballinasloe, Co. Galway

Architect: James F. Kempster

Gothic chapel designed by the County Surveypr for the Sisters of Mercy convent. The spire on the short tower is quite distinctive.

1866 – Chapel, Convent of Mercy, Clonakilty, Co. Cork

Architect: Pugin & Ashlin

The chapel was designed in a Romanesque style to blend in with the existing convent buildings –

1867 – Convent of Mercy Chapel, Skibbereen, Co. Cork

Architect: Pugin & Ashlin

“Our illustration with this number is a portion of the detail elevation of the west front of the new chapel now building at the Convent of Sisters of Mercy,

1867 – Mercy Convent, Ballina, Co. Mayo

Architect: George Goldie, W.H. Byrne

A convent completed by William Henry Byrne on initial designs by George Goldie (1828-87) of London.