Maureen Hegarty

Maureen Hegarty (1 September 1921 14 January 2016), was an Irish local historian and president of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society.

Biography Maureen Hegarty was born to Denis and Mary Hegarty (née Gleeson), schoolteachers in Johnswell village in 1921. She was educated in Johnswell and the Presentation convent secondary school before she graduated with an arts degree in English and History from University College Dublin. After teaching in Newport in Wales during the Second World War, Hegarty returned to Ireland to teach, first in her own secondary school and then becoming vice principal of the Loreto Secondary School in Kilkenny City.

In 1952, Hegarty joined the Kilkenny Archaeological Society and was elected to the council in 1957. Hegarty was elected president of the society in 1988. She died in Kilkenny in 2016 and was buried in Foulkstown, County Kilkenny.