Catherine HYLAND was born 22 August 1895 in Rosscarbery. She was the fifth child and second daughter of Patrick and Mary Teresa (Egan) HYLAND. Catherine was known as Katty.
Katty was just nine years old when she was with her younger sister Agnes who was involved in a fatal fire. (See later post on Agnes.)
Katty was reportedly a primary teacher for some time, although believed by my mother to have been untrained. My aunt Maura believed she taught at the convent on Peacock Lane – this was St. Vincent’s [1], run by the Sisters of Charity. Peacock Lane was near Eason’s Hill in Shandon.
She had an office job, believed to be doing the accounts in the English Market. My mother thought she had been a cashier for a butcher in the English Market. [2] A cousin believed Katty then worked as a bookkeeper in Cash’s department store.[3]
Katty did not marry and lived at 30 Dublin Street with her younger siblings. She reportedly tried to get the family to move from Dublin St, having her eye on a place in Blackrock.
Katty, like her younger sister Bridget, participated in puzzle competitions. She was named in the paper for winning a prize of £5.00.
Death
Katty died 7 October 1978 at St. Patrick’s Hospital. She was 83 years old. Her cause of death was carcinoma of the colon, secondary metastases. She had spent one month in hospital.
Her death notice recorded her as having died in St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Niece Breda read at her funeral.
Katty is buried at Rathcooney Cemetery where her remaining siblings joined her.
Katty left the following:
£1191 pounds is worth about £5,500 in 2020.
[1] St. Vincent’s infant school, St Mary’s Road, opened in 1857, followed by a primary and secondary school. There is a publication “A history of St Vincent’s Primary School 1857-2008.”
[2] The English Market was the first market built outside the old city walls, opening in 1788. It has been known as the Princes St Market, the Grand Parade Market, and the Market. Why it is called the English Market is not known. (Beecher, 2005).
[3]Cash and Co was a department store on Saint Patrick’s Street. It is changed ownership multiple times in the 70s and 80s and in the 90s was sold to Brown Thomas, as it is now.
[4]The Church of the Annunciation on Great William O’Brien Street in Blackpool was officially dedicated on the 7th of October 1945. Katty was the first of the Hylands to have her funeral from here, the family formerly using the North Cathedral.
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