St.Columba industrial school mayo

[joan]

Can anyone tell me if there is anyway I can check on two sisters that were sent to St.Columba’s industrial school,  Westport in 1879 they were only 5 and 3 at the time mother was dead and their father should have been around, the girls were sent there because they were caught begging in Westport.  The younger daughter Mary Anne Browne died aged 6 presumably still in St. Columba’s.   Her sister was Honor Browne.  Their father remarried and moved to England in and around 1891.
Thanks in advance, Joan D’Arcy

[heywood]

I can see later references (more recent times) but nothing for that time with regard to records.

Do you have Mary Ann’s death? Is this your family?

I can see a death for Mary Brown, 7 yrs in 1883. The informant is her grandmother, Mary Kirby. I think the townland is Cogaula. This would imply, she was living with her grandmother.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1883/06372/4828379.pdf

I see there is a birth for Honor Brown 1874, with parents John Brown and Catherine Kirby from the same townland.

[heywood]

I can’t see a death for the mother though - so maybe not the right family.

[Maiden Stone]

I can see a death for Mary Brown, 7 yrs in 1883. The informant is her grandmother, Mary Kirby. I think the townland is Cogaula. This would imply, she was living with her grandmother.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1883/06372/4828379.pdf

It says she was a landholder's daughter and died of consumption.
It was a hard time in Mayo in 1879 and for some years after; the "forgotten famine".

[Maiden Stone]

I see there is a birth for Honor Brown 1874, with parents John Brown and Catherine Kirby from the same townland.

Same parents & townland for a Mary born 1876.
I couldn't see a death registration for Catherine.

[Kiltaglassan]

I see there is a birth for Honor Brown 1874, with parents John Brown and Catherine Kirby from the same townland.

Same parents & townland for a Mary born 1876.
I couldn't see a death registration for Catherine.

Neither could I 

Cogaula townland, Islandeady civil parish
https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/burrishoole/islandeady/clogher/cogaula/

[heywood]

It may not be the right family though. We will have to wait and see.
Joan wants to find records for the I S, I think.
As the only death for a child Mary seems to be living with a grandparent, perhaps I posted the wrong family.

[Kiltaglassan]

Think the OP needs to contact the local history department of Mayo County Library. They can probably advise further about available records for the St.Columba’s industrial school, Westport and where to find them.

Scroll down on this page for the Local History contact-
https://www.mayo.ie/library/contact

[Kiltaglassan]

The St.Columba’s Industrial School appears to be situated in Altamont Street, Westport beside the Convent of Mercy.

https://arcg.is/1PzyuS
https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/murrisk/oughaval/westport-urban/cahernamart/
https://tinyurl.com/59scphnp