OWNED “SHELL” HOUSE

LEINSTER LEADER 6 January 1968 

OWNED “SHELL” HOUSE 

Miss Elizabeth O’Beirne, who lived in a Dublin hospital, died on Wednesday of last week lived with her sister at “Shell” House, the cottage decorated with sea shells which has become a well-known landmark on the Kildare Monasterevan road and is situated about a mile outside Kildare. Mainly through the efforts of Miss O’ Beirne the entire exterior of the house was covered with neatly arranged designs made of sea shell which were gathered from beaches in Ireland and England and also during continental holidays.

The late Miss O’Beirne was a member of one of Ireland’s great patriotic families and one of her ancestors, Capt. M. O’Beirne, was leader of the Nurney insurgents in 1798. She and her sister Agnes were born at Harristown near Nurney. Agnes is now the only surviving member of the family. The funeral took place on Friday from St. Brigid’s Parish Church, Kildare, to the family burial ground at Nurney.

Re-typed by Lynn Potts