Illness forced Margaret into the Linden Convalescent Home in Blackrock, County Dublin when she was in her 80s. In 1965, the chairman of the Dublin Red Cross Committee awarded Margaret with a certificate for her outstanding service and contribution to the Irish Red Cross Society. She had founded the Rathfarnham Red Cross branch and she had allowed her home in St. Enda's to be used as a first aid hospital. She was still a patient in the Linden Convalescent Home at the time this award was bestowed upon her.