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AltheGnome

July 21, 2019

This convent founded by Nano Nagle is now home to several educational charities, a museum, the Presentation Sisters cemetery and Nano Nagle's tomb, a free garden, two shops, and a restaurant. There are always a handful of Sisters in residence, but the majority of the Order reside elsewhere. The museum focuses on 18th century Cork.

There is no parking on site, they can provide you parking discs at €2 each for the nearby street parking.

Website: nanonagleplace.ie

Hours: Tuesday- Sunday 10.00-17.00 (note this may be different on bank holidays, Christmas, and New Year's) The museum is generally open Tuesday-Sunday 1100-1600, excepting bank holidays.

Admission: Free for garden and tomb, €7.50 for the museum. Guided tours can be booked in advance and cost an additional €2.

Bumble-Bee

October 2, 2020

A series of life changing events inspired Nano to devote her life to the service of the poor. On her way home from a ball in Paris she saw paupers mustering around a church door in search of alms. When Nano’s father died and she and her sister Ann returned to Dublin to be with their mother, Nano began visiting poor families with Ann. Ann died suddenly, quickly followed by her mother. Nano decided she would devote her life to helping the poor. At first she thought this might be achieved by entering a religious order and she travelled to Paris and joined a convent. But Nano found that her life of religious enclosure allowed her little access to the needy. She felt her vocation was to offer poor Catholic children the chance to better their lives and engage in their religion through education. She made up her mind to leave the convent and return to Ireland to live with her brother Joseph and his wife Frances, who lived on Cove Street (now Douglas Street).

Since under the Penal Laws, operating a Catholic School could result in three months imprisonment, Nano had to work in secret. She began by opening a school next to our site at Nano Nagle Place in the early c. 1750s. This girls’ school focussed on reading, writing, Catechism (Catholic religious instruction) and needlework.

Within ten years demand for the education which Nano provided was such that she was operating seven schools across the city of Cork, teaching both boys and girls. When Nano’s family moved to Bath, Nano took a small cottage on Cove Street. By day she visited each of her schools, and by night she visited the poor of the Cork city. This was dark and treacherous work. The city streets were neither lit nor properly policed. Nano travelled by the light of the lantern she carried, and across the city of Cork she became known as ‘Miss. Nagle, ‘the Lady of the Lantern’.

(nanonagleplace.ie/the-story-of-nano-nagle/)

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April 26, 2025

This museum tells the story of Nano Nagle, the founder of the Presentation Convent. There's also a beautiful garden with a café.

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Location: Cork, Munster, Ireland

Nano Nagle Place

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