In 1905, a ‘spacious recreation ground’ was provided for the women on the site of 105 Gloucester St, a lime yards and shed occupied by a Mr Michael Flood, on the opposite side of the convent to the chapel…the old yard ‘now transformed into a garden, with handsome garden plots, concrete walls and a fountain in the centre’: Here and there through the grass plots are pedestals, on whicha re very fine statues of the Sacred Heart, Our Blessed Lady, and St Mary Magdalen; they add much to the surroundings. The garden is seperated from the drying yard by a wire fence.’
Jacinta Prunty, The Monasteries, Magdalene Asylums and Reformatory Schools of Our Lady of Charity in Ireland 1853-1973, Dublin: Columba Press (2017) p. 294)