Mount Erin Heritage 

Glimpses of Mount Erin's Rich Heritage

In the early 1870s Father McAlroy was commissioned by Bishop Lanigan of Goulburn to recruit teaching nuns from Ireland for the schools in the Diocese of Goulburn, which then included Wagga Wagga.

Father McAlroy together with Dr Bermingham visited the Presentation Sisters in Kildare, where they spoke so eloquently on behalf of the Catholic population of the Riverina that some volunteers offered their services for the distant mission.

Five Sisters were chosen to bring Christian education to the children of the early settlers, many of whom had left their native oppressed land, so that they might be free to bring up their children in the Catholic faith.

M M John Byrne, Sr M Xavier Byrne, Sr M Paul Fay, Sr M Evangelist Kelly and Sr Stanislaus Dunne.

The five Sisters were Mother M John Byrne from Kildare and her sister, Sister Mary Xavier Byrne from the Convent at Mountmellick, both of whom had been born in Swords, Co Dublin, Sister M Paul Fay from a famous Dublin family, who had been born in London, Sister M Evangelist Kelly native of Manasterevan, and Sister M Stanislaus Dunne born in Kildare.