The nuns are to leave Kenmare and departure of the St Clare's order from the area after more than 160 years is being greeted with great sadness
In a letter read out to parishioners at Sunday mass and afterwards carried on line, the sisters said"regrettably" they no longer had the numbers to maintain a presence. But after 16 decades they would always carry Kenmare in their hearts.
Tributes have been flowing in after the unexpected news which has surprised many. The nuns arrived at the invitation of Archdeacon Fr John O’Sullivan to a town impoverished after the Famine and a particularly cruel landlord and agent. "And shock too for a number of parishioners - they had no sense the presence of the nuns had been coming to an end," Fr Hayes said on Radio Kerry yesterday.
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