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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.

Research on Aharney Castle, Co. Offaly (Parish of Kilbride, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 879.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over one page and four photographs.

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.

Research on Castletown Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Rahan, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 766.
Contains field sheet with a sketch of the site plan, a written report over two pages and five photographs.

House Consultors’ (Frs Michael Connolly, John Hyde, John F. O’Connor and Kieran Hanley) letters to Fr Provincial.

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).

Research on Church Hill Church and Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Rahan, Barony of Ballycowan). County Inventory Registration: 635.
Contains field sheet with sketches of site plan, exterior and interior elevation, a written report over two pages and 21 photographs.

Letters of the Prefect of Studies (Fr Michael Connolly SJ) to Fr Provincial.

Covering letter from Fr Thomas Byrne SJ to Fr Brendan Lawler SJ of Tullabeg (9 October 1948, 1p.), enclosing the official copy of the document of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, by which Tullabeg is recognised as a Philosophical Faculty of the Society.

Philosophy course notes comprising:
– ‘Ontologia Codex, First year Philosophy, Fr Joseph O’Mara SJ’ (1955);
– Critica Codex, First Year, Fr Conn Lonergan SJ (1956);
– Cosmologia course notes, Second Year Philosophy, Fr Brendan Lawler SJ (1956);
– Psychologia class notes, Second Year Philosophy, Fr Thomas Byrne SJ (1956);
– Sociology Codex, Third Year Philosophy, Fr Michael Connolly SJ (1957);
– Ethica Specialis, Third Year Philosophy, Fr Michael Connolly SJ (1957);
– Ethica Generalis, Third Year Philosophy, Fr Michael Connolly SJ (1957);
– Anthropology, c1957, Fr Fleming’s codex (?) adopted by Fr Michael Connolly SJ.