Sandymount

And then as a consequence of that loss, the Catholic community and the religious individuals in this area felt that there was a need for a Catholic hospital.

to look after particularly the women who lived in the tenement slums in Irish Town, Ringsend and Sandymount.

And these women were really not well catered for.

Remember back in those days, and your listeners may not know this, but the maternal mortality rate was 600 per 100,000 maternities.

Her full birth name was Lavinia Brown Witherill.

Lavina was born in Sandymount on the 8th of June 1881.

She was one of six children born to John Witherall and Margaret Mackenzie.

The Witheralls were a well-off Dublin shipping family.

Uh, and that's where, as next of kin, that's where Nancy formally reports Annie as a missing person.

And we know the Gardai go to her flat in Sandymount, inventory her belongings.

They inspect for signs of break-in, and they determined that Annie was wearing a tweed coat, boots, and carrying a handbag.

And her passport, her money, everything important, I would say, passport, money, jewelry, all her personal items, were still in the apartment untouched, and there's no signs of struggle here, no signs of a break-in.

A lot of people look like that.

Um, but still, they were issuing this description.

But you can see really quickly the investigation has moved out of Sandymount, up the mountains, and Johnny Fox's and Glencullen is a big focus already.

Mm-hmm.

I was like, what am I good at? What can I do? How can I...

make me living out of enjoying my life as well and I was teaching a few guitar lessons a few kids in the flats guitar lessons just casually and I like I was they kept coming back and I was like this is okay okay and then I come down here to the centre and I was like I was thinking I used to them private guitar lessons went from people's houses, I was going, every afternoon I was scheduled to be in Sandymount at four o'clock, or to be in Ringsend at five o'clock, or to be over there at six o'clock, or to be back, and I says to myself, I'm doing too much traveling around here, I'm wasting too much time traveling, and I says to myself, if I can get them to come to me.

Sorry to cut in, I did teach in English for a while, private classes, and I clicked and it was like, if I can rent a room somewhere and they all

come,

I was like, what am I good at? What can I do? How can I...

make me living out of enjoying my life as well and I was teaching a few guitar lessons a few kids in the flats guitar lessons just casually and I like I was they kept coming back and I was like this is okay okay and then I come down here to the centre and I was like I was thinking I used to them private guitar lessons went from people's houses, I was going, every afternoon I was scheduled to be in Sandymount at four o'clock, or to be in Ringsend at five o'clock, or to be over there at six o'clock, or to be back, and I says to myself, I'm doing too much traveling around here, I'm wasting too much time traveling, and I says to myself, if I can get them to come to me.

Sorry to cut in, I did teach in English for a while, private classes, and I clicked and it was like, if I can rent a room somewhere and they all

come,

I used to do shifts like eight to eight every weekend, and then sometimes I do a two to eight.

So I left my house in Sandymount and I was walking.

This office was in Peer Street and I was walking to work and the second plane, I think, was hitting as I was walking in the door of the office.

Yeah, it's funny, you reminded me that although we're basically the same age, you, of course, got a head start because of the way the birthdays fall on the calendar.

the initial accommodation.

She stayed with a friend in Clondalkin for a short period of time, and then she managed to find a flat and did a flat share in St. Catherine's Grove in Sandymount with Jill Toomey from Cork and Ida Walsh from Newbridge.

And she actually sort of established a really strong friendship with Ida as well, one of her flatmates.

Yeah, so she only met Jill and Ida in the January of that year.

So... two months, a little bit more than two months before she disappears.

She meets them and she's she she gets she becomes the third flatmate in in this in this apartment.

St. Catherine's Grove in Sandymount has always kind of maintained as an apartment block.

and had a communal laundry room that required coins to use, like for the washer and the dryer.

But, you know, does it take three years to do a simple cycle track in Ireland? Yes, yes, it does.

Most of those level crossings are in Sandymount.

I mean, they wanted to put a bike lane in Sandymount and there was almost a civil war about it.

Yeah,

Sandymount seems to have an unaccountable amount of political clout in Irish life.

Why would that be, Pat?

Because about 50% of the population there are barristers.