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Booklet entitled ‘Souvenir of St. Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg, King’s County. A College (1818 to 1886); Noviceship and House of Studies (since 1888) of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.’ Lists: Rectors of the College, 1818 to 1886;
– Rectors and Masters of Novices since 1888;
– Staff of St. Stanislaus’ College, 1840-1885;
– Summary of Results.
Interspersed with photos of relevant persons, grounds and interiors.

Deeds relating to the lands of Ballykeenaghan, barony of Ballycowan, County Offaly. Arranged chronologically.

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

Statements of accounts. Some material in Latin. Includes handwritten list of Jesuit Rectors of Tullabeg.

Decorated programmes for Christmas and New Year’s Day carol singing by Jesuits at Tullabeg. Details song title, writer and Jesuit who performed.

Handwritten accounts related to Tullabeg and details of the rent of Tullabeg. Includes references to ‘Irish Province in a/c with Tullabeg’, which details expenses of individual Jesuits such as examinations, living expenses, travel and tailoring (1900 - 1915); receipt of the Province in account with Clongowes Wood College (October 1909); list of tertians at Tullabeg (1911); letter of thanks from Brother Benedict, Mount St. Michael, Drumfries, Scotland to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ, Tullabeg concerning information related to land at Tullabeg (25 April 1909).

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);

Correspondence, mostly letters to Fr Provincial from the Rectors of Tullabeg and other priests, on administrative matters and domestic arrangements. Two documents reference St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg amalgamation with Clongowes Wood College in 1886. Includes:
– letters concerning villa expenses (3, 29 July 1902, 2pp and 2pp);
– letters from Fr James Murphy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg to various priests of the community on domestic matters (27 June, 26 October 1907, 3pp and 2pp);
– letters to Fr Provincial from Fr Martin Maher SJ, Rector of Tullabeg on administrative and domestic matters (28 October 1912-4 May 1918, 45 items);
– letters concerning Jesuits willing to serve as military chaplains (9 July 1915-9 October 1916, 9 items);
– letters from Fr William A. Sutton SJ, concerning his publications (2 September 1913 – 5 December 1914, 2 items);
– letters from Fr Hugo Mulhall SJ (29 September 1914-December 19[ ], 2 items);
– letters from Richard O’Reilly SJ (30 January 1913-10 June 1917, 4 items);
– letters from Ignatius Gartlan SJ concerning Jesuit chaplains (1 June 1915-25 [ ] 19[16], 4 items);
– letters from Stephen Brown SJ concerning his book Ireland in Fiction (22 September 1915 –14 August 19[16], 3 items);
– letters from Joseph Darlington SJ (1 September 1918-7 January 1919, 5 items);
– letters from Charles Mulcahy SJ (October 25, December 29, 2 items) and
– letters to Fr Provincial from members of the Society at Tullabeg on various matters, mostly literary and personal (2 January 1913-8 August 1917, 11 items).

Documents, mostly rental receipts concerning the lands of Murrough and Ballykeenaghan, county Offaly. (Ballykeenaghan and Murrough were farms purchased by the Jesuits from W.R. Molloy in 1902).

Consultors’ letters to Father Provincial from Frs Andrew Macardle, Martin Maher, William Lockington, Charles Mulcahy, Ignatius Gartlan, Esmonde White, Richard Campbell, Richard O'Reilly, Stephen Bartley, Ernest Spillane and Peter Kenny. Includes references the condition of the buildings, and report on novices (1914, 1915).