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Ainm Gaeilge
Mairéad Aloisia Aighleart
Margaret was the 5th of 10 children of William & Ellen (née Murphy) Aylward of Waterford. She also had a half brother through her mother's first marriage.
Her father William Aylward and her mother's Murphy family were unusual for their era in that, despite being native Irish and staunch Catholics as well, they became well off financially and, to the extent allowed, leaders in their local communities. They escaped the worst of barbaric and genocidal atrocities inflicted on the Irish and Catholics by a hostile occupying power. The worst of the atrocities being the ethnic cleansing of the Irish Holocaust, also known as The Great Famine.
A neighbor and friend of the Aylwards was The Great Emancipator himself, Daniel O'Connell; a man so monumental in Irish history the memorial tower built in his honor has but one word: O'Connell. Another frequent visitor to the Aylward home during Margaret's youth was Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, Founder of the Irish Christian Brothers.
Ainm Gaeilge
Mairéad Aloisia Aighleart
Margaret was the 5th of 10 children of William & Ellen (née Murphy) Aylward of Waterford. She also had a half brother through her mother's first marriage.
Her father William Aylward and her mother's Murphy family were unusual for their era in that, despite being native Irish and staunch Catholics as well, they became well off financially and, to the extent allowed, leaders in their local communities. They escaped the worst of barbaric and genocidal atrocities inflicted on the Irish and Catholics by a hostile occupying power. The worst of the atrocities being the ethnic cleansing of the Irish Holocaust, also known as The Great Famine.
A neighbor and friend of the Aylwards was The Great Emancipator himself, Daniel O'Connell; a man so monumental in Irish history the memorial tower built in his honor has but one word: O'Connell. Another frequent visitor to the Aylward home during Margaret's youth was Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, Founder of the Irish Christian Brothers.
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Ainm Gaeilge
Mairéad Aloisia Aighleart
Margaret was the 5th of 10 children of William & Ellen (née Murphy) Aylward of Waterford. She also had a half brother through her mother's first marriage.
Her father William Aylward and her mother's Murphy family were unusual for their era in that, despite being native Irish and staunch Catholics as well, they became well off financially and, to the extent allowed, leaders in their local communities. They escaped the worst of barbaric and genocidal atrocities inflicted on the Irish and Catholics by a hostile occupying power. The worst of the atrocities being the ethnic cleansing of the Irish Holocaust, also known as The Great Famine.
A neighbor and friend of the Aylwards was The Great Emancipator himself, Daniel O'Connell; a man so monumental in Irish history the memorial tower built in his honor has but one word: O'Connell. Another frequent visitor to the Aylward home during Margaret's youth was Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, Founder of the Irish Christian Brothers.
Ainm Gaeilge
Mairéad Aloisia Aighleart
Margaret was the 5th of 10 children of William & Ellen (née Murphy) Aylward of Waterford. She also had a half brother through her mother's first marriage.
Her father William Aylward and her mother's Murphy family were unusual for their era in that, despite being native Irish and staunch Catholics as well, they became well off financially and, to the extent allowed, leaders in their local communities. They escaped the worst of barbaric and genocidal atrocities inflicted on the Irish and Catholics by a hostile occupying power. The worst of the atrocities being the ethnic cleansing of the Irish Holocaust, also known as The Great Famine.
A neighbor and friend of the Aylwards was The Great Emancipator himself, Daniel O'Connell; a man so monumental in Irish history the memorial tower built in his honor has but one word: O'Connell. Another frequent visitor to the Aylward home during Margaret's youth was Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, Founder of the Irish Christian Brothers.
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Unus Dominus una fides
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Pray For The Soul Of
MARGARET AYLWARD
(Sister M. Agatha)
Foundress And First Superior Of
St. Brigid's Orphanage & Schools
& Of The Sisters Of The Holy Faith.
Who Died At This Convent 11th October 1889.
Aged 79 Years
& Whose Precious Remains Rest Here
In The Hope Of A Blessed Resurrection.
REQUIESCAT IN PACE
Gravesite Details
Her sister Jane (née Aylward) Fagan, who took the religious name Sr. M. Scholastica, is buried beside her.
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