Hi dathai
'Interesting house and building return for Mullaghmonaghan.
no 1 convent head Mother M A Farrell
no 2 Industrial school head Mother M A Farrell
no 3 Boarding school head Mother M A Farrell
so which did Mary Anne go to,boarding would suggest fee paying.'
That is interesting, sounds like Mary Ann[M A] (wild guess) was a busy woman
Do you mind me asking where you got that info as I am having no luck trying to find Convent info, was it on the Census return?
The story I have always been told but, I have no idea how true it is or how much is embellishment (as with most oral history) is that the parents of Mary Ann had owned a good sized farm of land which was taken by the convent in return for her upbringing.
When I asked how that could possibly be legal, in my more militant teen years, I was stoutly told that was just what the Church did in those days.
Looking back at it now the story still seems as full of holes to me now as it did then
Not quite sure where you are going with the house at Urbal bit (although Mum always said the family was from Urbal and her parents are buried there) would you mind explaining your chain of thought a little more
You could be right about Patrick although I was always led to believe the Donohoe's were relatively well off but, maybe there wasn't much left for poor Patrick after the others had taken their cut
Sorry for playing with the smileys, I couldn't resist them, they are so cheerful and Christmassy