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Just behind Dingle's St. Mary's Church stands St. Joseph's Convent and Díseart (dee-
SHIRT, rhymes with “T-shirt”), containing a beautiful Neo-Gothic chapel built in 1884.
The sisters of this order, who came to Dingle in 1829 to educate local girls, worked hero-
ically during the famine. During Mass in the chapel, the Mother Superior would sit in the
covered stall in the rear, while the sisters—filling the carved stalls—chanted in response.
