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Correspondence to Fr Brendan Murray SJ, Rector, Tullabeg, from Hoey and Denning solicitors, Tullamore, county Offaly, relating to payment of £100 for an entrance to the new cemetery at Rahan.

Ordnance Survey map of county Offaly featuring St. Stanislaus College, Tullabeg.

Draft letter from Fr. Hurley, St Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner St., Dublin, to Pádraig [?], comprising 'notes from mss Mt Briscoe 1785.' The letter composed in Irish, contains transcripts in English from an 18th century manuscript loaned to Hurley in 1948 from Mrs Briscoe following a lecture to the Kildare Archaeological Society. Hurley notes that the author of the manuscript was a good historian and evidently had a good knowledge of sources available to him at the time of writing. The manuscript concerns the history of the Briscoes, the marriage of John Briscoe to Eleanor Kearney and the construction of Srahkerne Castle (Srah Castle, Tullamore) in 1588.

Notebook relating to the history of the house at Tullabeg, containing account of alleged apparitions in the summer of 1922 at the grotto to Our Lady; Later recollection of the events by Fr Harold Craig SJ (1977).

Newspaper cuttings relating to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Jesuit house at Tullabeg; Booklet for the anniversary mass concelebrated by Most Reverend John McCormack, Bishop of Meath.

Includes:
– list of Jesuits buried in the old Rahan cemetery (n.d., 2pp);
– letter to [the Rector] from John Molloy (building contractor) concerning the laying out of the grounds (29 January 1818, 1p.);
– ‘Rules for a Confraternity of the Sacred Heart. formed for the Scholars at Tullabeg, by the late Fr Patrick Meagher SJ, uncle to Thomas Francis Meagher - March 19 1833 written out by Hugh Gartlan of Dundalk’ (1833, 11pp);
_ Note on the Christmas plays of Tullabeg College, 1853 (2pp);
– printed copy of ‘Centennial Ode. St. Stanislaus College, 1918’ by Fr William Fortescue Power SJ (1918, 6pp) and
letter from Fr William Delany SJ to Mr Breen concerning a fire in a shoe store in Tullabeg (11 January [ ] ), 3pp);

Ministers’ Diaries with ‘Book of the Customs & Usages of the College of Tullabeg with notices of particular events’ (1831-1835, 22pp); Scholars’ Customs (n.d., 6pp) and Diary (9 June 1835-18 July 1838, 39pp).

File relating to the minimum wage that should be paid to agricultural workers at Tullabeg. Includes newspaper cuttings, various notes and calculations and a letter on the topic to Fr Michael Connolly SJ from Fr Edward J.Coyne SJ.

Material compiled by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ relating to the origins of Tullabeg as a school for boys and a novitiate. Includes:
– typescript copies of summaries of replies to queries sent by Fr Burke Savage SJ to Fr Joseph Hurley SJ, House Historian, Tullabeg, comments on those replies and comparisons of the early history of the community, as depicted in Fr John Grene’s ‘A Contribution towards a History of The Irish Province of the Society of Jesus’; the Memorials of the Irish Province and Fr William Molony’s ‘Brief Notices’ of 1831
– notes on Frs Robert and John St Leger and on the original builder at Tullabeg (1955, 23pp)
– letter from Fr Burke Savage SJ to Fr Jerome Mahony SJ (19 November 1955, 3pp) on the ‘strong local tradition that we built Tullabeg’, enclosing copies of early letters relevant to the subject (21 April 1815 – 29 April 1817, 7 items, 9pp).

Research on Lynally Glebe Church, Graveyard and Priest's Residence, Co. Offaly (Parish of Lynally, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 694.
Contains field sheet with sketches of site plan, interior and exterior elevations and inscriptions of 17th century grave slab. Incl. a written report over 14 pages and 100 photographs.