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On this day, June 26, one hundred years ago, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary bought Spires House in Shantalla. Three of the sisters in the order had come to UCG the previous year to study for a degree and while they were in Galway, Mother Stanislaus looked for a suitable premises for a house of studies for them and finally purchased this premises. The house dates from the 1840s and got its name from the two unusual spires you can see on the roof. The building was used by the sisters as a hostel for secular students as well as their own nuns and these nuns became known locally as ‘The Spires Nuns’.