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

Copy of description of the new elementary school at Tullabeg under Fr Robert St. Leger SJ. Note how ‘Every care shall be taken to convey to their young minds the necessary knowledge, and to excite in their hearts, a sincere love of their moral and religious duties.’ Original in ADMN/10. See FM/TULL/15-20, 31.

Declaration by Hannah [McP…] to keep two houses she is renting in repair and good order witnessed by Br John Hayden SJ of the community at St. Stanislaus’ College, Tullamore.

Volume recording ‘Debts due and paid.’

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.

Volume containing the Dairy Account with the College.

‘Customs of the Novitiate of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.’ Includes table of contents (2pp). With note at end of table signed by Fr James F. Murphy SJ, 2 July 1906. (Volume is in bad condition, binding is gone, many torn and missing pages).

Notebook containing the minutes of the meetings of the Counsel of Studies.

Correspondence dealing with the Jesuits’ purchase of Tullabeg lands in the Land Commission Court and the clearing of all claim for the Young Mortgage. Letters have been folded and their date and contents summarised on the outside of each folded packet. Some folded packets contain more than one letter.

Letter from Patrick Joseph Plunkett, Bishop of Meath, Navan, Meath to Maria O’Brien, Rahan Lodge, County Offaly, regarding an invitation to Rahan Lodge in September 1818 (21 August 1818). Typed copy of a letter from Maria O’Brien, Rahan Lodge, County Offaly, (benefactress of Tullabeg) to the Bishop of Meath concerning the co-operation between the local clergy and the Jesuit fathers of Tullabeg (10 September 1818).