Agnes Bernard

Agnes Morrogh Bernard aka Sister Mary Joseph Arsenius (24 February 1842 – 20 April 1932) was a Roman Catholic nun who founded two convents, and a woollen mill in Foxford, Ireland.

Bernard obtained £7,000 in funding and opened the Providence Woollen Mill in Foxford in 1892 using power from the River Moy.

[2][5] Vawn Corrigan reports that she was known to be progressive and non-sectarian in her approach while enabled her to get support from skilled Presbyterian sources.

[3] Bernard tried to avoid politics but she did get involved when Charles Stewart Parnell fell from power and there was disagreements between her workers and the parish priest.

Bernard supported the revival of Gaelic culture and language as she had arranged earlier the building of cottages for workers.

Foxford Woollen Mills in 2014 [ 1 ]
She founded the Convent Church in 1925 [ 4 ]