Letters to the Fr James Murphy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg from Matthew Gaffney, Bishop of Meath, concerning issues such as the granting of ordinary faculties and visits to Tullabeg. In one letter Bishop Gaffney writes, ‘I hope you are not extinguished after all the light you shed on us. You strongly established your own fame, but you literally elevated your order, high as had been its station’ (4 August 1899).

File relating to the establishment and maintenance of a guaranteed telegraph office at Rahan. Includes letters to Fr James Murphy SJ from the secretary of the General Post Office, Dublin and from D.E. Williams, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Barrack Street, Tullamore, county Offaly.

Letter to Fr Michael Connolly SJ, Rector of Tullabeg, from Fr B. Judge, Killina, Tullamore, county Offaly, arising from tensions between the Jesuits and parochial clergy in relation to the administration of last rites.

File mainly containing letters from the Consultors at Tullabeg including Frs Colum O’ Holohan, Gregory Ffrench and Michael O’ Brien to Provincial, Fr Patrick Doyle SJ concerning the spiritual and temporal well-being of the community, with particular focus on financial affairs. Also contains material relating to the setting up of a temporary advisory committee on administration (1976).

Daybook of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg with information about expenditure such as wages, food and travel expenses and income from sources like the Church collection and retreats.

Diary of the Jesuit community at Tullabeg. Entries record those arriving and departing, retreats taking place and any events of note.

Report for year ending June 1919 outlining a remittance of £10,250 to Lord Digby, the increased amount being ascribed to revenue derived from the woods, particularly mature Scotch pine from Clonad Wood to a firm of match-makers. Remarks that although Ireland ‘remains in a disturbed an unsatisfactory condition this immediate neighbourhood has been very free from agitation and outrage and from a continuance of high prices for all agricultural produce and abundant crops, the Irish farmer is enjoying an era of unprecedented prosperity.’