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- In 1718, Nano Nagle was born into a family of wealthy Catholic landowners, in Ballygriffin, County Cork. As a consequence of the penal laws, and the lack of education provision for Catholics in Ireland at the time, Nano was sent to school in France. On returning to Ireland, she was determined to somehow establish schools for the Catholic poor.
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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 for young girls next to our site at Nano Nagle Place in the early c. 1750s.
Nano Nagle is believed to have attended a local hedge school, like her cousin Edmund Burke, before she travelled to France to complete her education. [6] The Education Act 1695 banned Catholic schoolteachers in Ireland, while also prohibiting overseas travel for Catholic education.
By Gillian O’Brien and Jessie Castle Between the early 1750s and her death in 1784 Nano Nagle established schools in Cork to educate poor Catholic children, brought the Ursuline Sisters to Ireland and founded her own religious order, the Presentation Sisters, ...
Her parents, Ann and Garret Nagle, were relatively wealthy Catholic landowners. Ireland at that time was in the grip of Penal Laws which denied Catholics the right to property, to education, to entry into the professions – even the right to own a horse!
In 1718, Nano Nagle was born into a family of wealthy Catholic landowners, in Ballygriffin, County Cork. As a consequence of the penal laws, and the lack of education provision for Catholics...
Nagle was born into a wealthy and close-knit landed Catholic family of Norman origin whose estate was in Ballygriffin, Co Cork. The Nagles were regarded as one of the most important Catholic families to have survived the seventeenth century confiscations.
conducting a Catholic school he showed 'real anger' but was soon reconciled to the situation. Early expansion of her work was rapid. Two further cabins to cater for 200 children were secured in nine 600ths. Her sister-in-law, Frances (Mapas Nagle pleaded for a school for young boys, so Nano provided another cabin for 40 boys in Cove Lane, Cork.
