The next door on your right indicates the Callaghan Room which is the only room restored to period. With the exception of the chairs around the table, the furniture in this room came from Coolock House when Catherine sold the Callaghan estate in 1828, as did the remains of the dinner-set on display. The floral hand-painted china in the cabinet was done by women in the House of Mercy in Golden Bridge who were taught by M. Clare Augustine Moore from 1865.

• The titled portraits depict Mr Callaghan and Catherine’s friends and advisers, Fr Armstrong and Dr Blake.
• Beneath Mr Callaghan’s portrait and obituary notices is the Book of Benefactors – for whom Catherine exhorted us to pray.
• The tile-patterns date to the early 1850s and were tendered as possible designs for the floors.

As you leave the Callaghan Room, go left and then right into the stairs lobby. Here you will notice the original plans of the building.

You then proceed up the main staircase to the first floor.

On the walls in this corridor are prints from a book by Sr. M. Clare Agnew a contemporary of Catherine McAuley. They depict sisters in their various works of Mercy Ministry.