In Google Books (main search page, upper lefthand screen link labelled "more" and then use link for "books"), there is a book,
full searchable, entitled Good Hearts by Suellen M. Hoy, with these listings for Clare-born women:
p. 32
"In February of 1898, Sister Mary Paul McHenry, a native of County Clare, brought out aboard the Pennland, fifty-four recruits from Tipperary, Clare, Limerick, Kilkenny, and Laois, to Troy, New York, and St. Louis, Missouri, where the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet had their motherhouse."
p. 50 discussing the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
"In 1845, Bishop Flaget welcomed more sisters from Angers [France, where they trained]. One, Mother Mary of St. Andrew Corsini O'Rourke, was a native of County Clare, Ireland..."
posted by Sharon Carberry USA
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Nuns of County Clare, to the U.S., 1800s
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