RIP: Late Maura Dunne was a great neighbour and renowned for her work ethic

A lady of great strength of character who suffered many setbacks during her lifetime but her unquenchable spirit was the shining light and story of Maura (Mary) Dunne, Curraghroe and most recently Doughill who passed away in the care of the staff at Mullingar Regional Hospital on Thursday, May 1. 

Maura was sadly predeceased a number of years ago by her husband Pat Joe and a fate that no mother should have to go through of burying her infant daughter Majella, her young daughters Bríd and Maggie and her young son-in-law Mark Fallon.

Maura was well-known as a woman with a great spirit and she had a unique competency in farming their land while Pat Joe worked with ESB in the power station. 

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She was renowned for her work ethic particularly having to raise a big family of seven children, ensuring all housework was done and having meals on the table for the coming and going of her children to school all that on top of her farming in a time when machinery was not as freely available as it is today. 

Maura was a woman who always enjoyed reading the newspapers and keeping abreast with all the happenings of the world. 

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Remembered as a great and helpful neighbour and woman of a great disposition, Maura will be sadly missed by the great number of people who had the pleasure to know her. She was a woman of great faith and she always enjoyed her trips to Knock with the family and her pilgrimages to Lourdes. 

In latter times when her health failed she moved to Innis Ree Nursing Home where she made new friends and took to the game of bingo and she continued with her reading habits.

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Maura’s remains reposed at McHugh’s Funeral Home, Strokestown, on Sunday, May 4 before being removed to St Cecilia’s Church, Curraghroe. On Monday her Funeral Mass was followed by burial in Scramogue Cemetery. 

To her daughters Deirdre, Dolores and Catherine, her sons Declan and Padraig, her grandchildren, Nicole, Aisling, Michael, Tara, Ciara and Francis, son-in-law Tom, daughter-in-law Martina, sister-in-law Beatrice Power, relatives, neighbours and friends we extend our deepest sympathy.

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