The Sisters of Mercy in the Southern Province of Ireland live in counties Carlow, Cork, Kerry, Kilkenny, Laois, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford. View Places
The five members of our Provincial Leadership team are Anna Mai Middleton, Eileen O’Flynn, Provincial, Brid Biggane Nora Ann Lombard, Julianne Sullivan
The first Convent of Mercy was founded by Catherine McAuley in Baggot Street, Dublin, in 1831.
The second Convent of Mercy outside Dublin was founded in 1836 in Charleville, Co. Cork by Sr Angela Dunne. Other early Mercy Convents founded from Dublin were also in St Marie’s of the Isle in 1937, and Convent of Mercy, Wexford 1840
Kinsale (1844) and Killarney (1844) were founded from Limerick. Cappoquin was founded in 1850 from Wexford and Carrick on Suir was also founded in 1874 from Wexford . Sisters came from Athy to Callan in 1872.
In the beginning, Catherine McAuley, envisaged each new Mercy Convent being autonomous, making decisions locally so that they could respond more appropriately to the needs of a particular area. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, however, the Sisters began to form and operate as Diocesan Units as they realised that they could carry out the works of Mercy more effectively by collaborating in larger groups. Please go to Diocesan Units
In 1994, the present structure of the Congregation, consisting of Seven Provinces, including the Southern Province, was set up.
Southern Province 