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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).
Letters from David Sherlock, Rahan Lodge, to Fr James Murphy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg, concerning the purchase of Tullabeg lands from Sherlock by the Society in the Land Commission Court.
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.
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);
‘Catalogus primus Collegii Tulliolani’ for the following years: 1832; 1840 (2pp); 1843; 1844 (3pp). All handwritten giving details such as names, date and place of birth, and entry in the Society.
Letters to Fr Provincial from various members of the community at Tullabeg, mostly from Fr Rector - Fr William Delaney SJ (1870-1880), Fr Aloysius Sturzo SJ (1880-1883) and Fr George Kelly SJ (1883-1886) - largely concerned with administrative and financial matters. The subjects of the letters are noted on many of the envelopes accompanying them.
Correspondence and documents relating to the use of boats on the Grand Canal by students of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg. Includes note by Fr John Joy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg (9 October 1933); note from Fr James McCann SJ to Fr John Joy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg referring to the restrictions on the use of boats and that his brother, James McCann (McCann Stock & Share broker) advises to sign the indemnity, and he will 'fix up the mater with the Board meeting to-day' (9 October 1933).
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).
Information on the school. Includes: – notes on staff and statistics (n.d., 2pp); – printed advertisement for College (n.d., 1p.); – printed advertisement for the College, with lithograph of the College exterior and grounds (n.d., 6 copies); – results of Easter examinations at the College (1869, 3pp); – printed circular from Fr George C. Kelly SJ informing parents of the amalgamation of St. Stanislaus College, Tullabeg with Clongowes Wood College, county Kildare (26 June 1886, 1p.)