231:, County Dublin from stomach cancer after a short illness. Some sources record her date of death as 16 April or 19 April. She was buried at St Andrew's church, Malahide. She resigned from the Irish Society for the Protection of Birds just three days before her death. She ended her resignation letter by writing "The shearwaters are great company to me at night, and the ravens by day". Robert Lloyd Praeger wrote in her obituary in the Irish Naturalists' Journal that "even the ravens would miss her". Her death was noted in
185:, and the knowledge she developed, in 1901 she was employed as a temporary Assistant Naturalist as part of the fisheries division of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (DATI). She was employed on this basis until her death in 1931. The period from 1901 to 1914 was particularly productive for Irish marine biology with extensive investigations of the Irish coasts. This included the expeditions of
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161:, County Wicklow. She was probably educated at home, and appeared to develop an interest in nature from an early age. She made her first contribution to Irish zoological records at age 18 in 1885 by observing the first pair of nesting
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