Rose Cottage. Rose Cottage (Tigín na Rôs) and the house adjacent to it formed the temporary home of Abbess Mary O'Hagan and six nuns from the Poor Clare Convent who arrived in Kenmare from Newry, Co. Down, in 1861 to found a new convent. Abbess O'Hagan was the sister of Thomas O'Hagan, who became Ireland's first Catholic Lord Chancellor. Her biography was published by Sister Mary Francis Cusack (the 'Nun of Kenmare') in 1877.