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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).
Pamphlet entitled Offaly Tombstone Inscriptions. 1. Rahan Graveyards, published by the Offaly Historical Society. Contains references to, and lists of Jesuits buried in the old Rahan graveyard from 1823 to 1874 and those buried in the cemetery in the grounds of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, after 1874 (p.22 – 25).
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);
Letter from Charlotte Jane Johnston at 39 Waterloo Road, Ranelagh, County Dublin, to her granddaughter Constance Plunkett-Johnston. The letter is kept in an envelope addressed to Constance Lamb at Tinamuck, Clara, King's County (County Offaly), from 8 August 1911.
Letter from John Monteith at Long Island, New York, United States of America, to Constance Lamb at Woodfield House, Clara, County Offaly thanking her for her kind words and reminiscing about his late wife Eva Monteith. He mentions Eva Marsh, Raphael Fuller, Esperanza Fuller.