Presentation Convent, James's Street , Kilkenny, was the fifth daughter house of the South Presentation Convent in Cork. In the first three decades of its existence, the Kilkenny Community was itself to become parent to seven other foundations, each drawing heavily on the finances and personnel of the Mother house. These were:

Presentation Convent, Mooncoin, founded from Kilkenny in 1829.

This photograph of the Presentation Convent, Castlecomer was taken in 1978. The convent was founded 150 years earlier in 1828.

In 1898 Sisters from Kilkenny founded a Presentation Convent in Kilmacow in South Kilkenny.

In 1913 another community of Presentation sisters was established in Durrow, Co.Laois. The sisters'convent and school was housed from 1929-1992 in Castledurrow, the original home of the Flower family dating from 1716.

In 1960 four sisters from Kilkenny went to the Philippines, to Himamaylan on the Island of Negros in the diocese of Bacolod. They went to teach the children there. The sisters who went were the late Sr. Baptist Kearns, Sr. Rita Keyes, Sr. Carmel Claxton, who taught in our school for many years and still lives in the convent next door and Sr. Annunciata Hayes who teaches Maths to the girls in 5th and 6th classes.

In addition to the founders the following sisters from Kilkenny have been to the Philippine Mission:

Sr. Paula Farrelly, Sr. Imelda Buckley, Sr. Rosarii Treacy, Sr. Marie Looby, Sr. Pius Murphy and Sr. Marie Bray.

The Presentation Sisters continue to live in Parnell Street, Kilkenny today in their new convent consisting of three adjoining houses built in 1990.

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