placenamesStradbally
An tSráidbhaile
The Waterford community’s educational work included a small industry intended to provide employment for local women.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An tSráidbhaile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Stradbally · English · main form
Place & story
Successive homes for the community
The Mercy congregation’s foundation chart dates its Stradbally community to 1875–1988. The Southern Province convent history describes the sisters’ first accommodation at Myrtle Lodge, followed by the purchase of an interest in Hannigan’s Hotel on the square. In 1885 they moved to the former parish priest’s house, naming it Mount Saint Joseph’s. The same account distinguishes the community’s closure in 1988 from the sale of the convent in July 1991. [2] [3]
Making cloth as well as teaching
Alongside school work, the sisters organised shirt and vestment making and the weaving of linen, cambric and woollens. An Irish Times notice dated 30 October 1895, reproduced in the convent history, reported about ten girls employed in the weaving enterprise. It sought further orders to expand that work and described cloth for clothing and household use. This contemporary appeal records the scale and ambitions of the undertaking at that date; it does not establish how long the industry continued. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stradbally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Stradbally1875–1991: convent history and reproduced Irish Times notice of30October1895 · Southern Province convent history; Irish Times1895notice reproduced
- Waterford and Lismore: Mercy congregation foundation chart · Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.