Individual Details

Mary Catherine was known as Kathleen. She was educated at the Mercy convent in Charleville and, in 1926, entered the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) convent at Ardfoyle, Ballintemple, Cork, where she was professed two years later. Kathleen left for Nigeria in 1931 and spent seven years teaching at St. Agnes's College in Yaba. In 1938 she fell ill and returned to Ireland to recuperate. In June 1939, after a year at home, she returned to Yaba, where, three months later, she died of blackwater fever, a form of malaria. In the convent's cemetery at Ardfoyle there is a statue donated by her family in memory of her.

Birth	10 Sep 1910	Newline, Charleville, Co. Cork
Death	3 Oct 1939	Yaba, Nigeria
Burial		Lagos, Nigeria

Father	Michael O'SULLIVAN (1869 - 1938)
Mother	Catherine MCDERMOTT (1870 - 1954)
Sibling	Michael Joseph O'SULLIVAN (1900 - 1953)
Sibling	Peter O'SULLIVAN (1901 - 1921)
Sibling	Ellen (Nellie) O'SULLIVAN (1903 - 1996)
Sibling	John Joseph (Fr. Ephrem) O'SULLIVAN (1904 - 1958)
Sibling	Patrick O'SULLIVAN (1905 - 1907)
Sibling	Margaret (Peggy) Mary O'SULLIVAN (1906 - 1966)
Sibling	David O'SULLIVAN (1908 - 1953)
Sibling	Catherine (Sr. Dympna) O'SULLIVAN (1914 - 1982)