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Title deeds and legal documents relating to the foundation of Tullabeg, and the selling of its lands by the Land Commission. Deeds returned to St. Stanislaus College in 1977 by John J. McDonald & Co., Solicitors. Includes schedule of deeds and documents. Item 1 and 12 on the schedule are missing. Deeds arranged in chronological order according to original (not copy) date.

Booklet containing cuttings from the Offaly Independent, mostly recording the history of the house, compiled by Fr Francis Finegan SJ.

Material compiled by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ relating to the origins of Tullabeg as a school for boys and a novitiate. Includes:
– typescript copies of summaries of replies to queries sent by Fr Burke Savage SJ to Fr Joseph Hurley SJ, House Historian, Tullabeg, comments on those replies and comparisons of the early history of the community, as depicted in Fr John Grene’s ‘A Contribution towards a History of The Irish Province of the Society of Jesus’; the Memorials of the Irish Province and Fr William Molony’s ‘Brief Notices’ of 1831
– notes on Frs Robert and John St Leger and on the original builder at Tullabeg (1955, 23pp)
– letter from Fr Burke Savage SJ to Fr Jerome Mahony SJ (19 November 1955, 3pp) on the ‘strong local tradition that we built Tullabeg’, enclosing copies of early letters relevant to the subject (21 April 1815 – 29 April 1817, 7 items, 9pp).

Covering letters from Brother Luke [ ], De La Salle Monastery, Muine Beag, county Carlow (1 March 1940), enclosing notes and copies of letters relating to the Conwell brothers, Eugene, Edward and Henry, who were at school at Tullabeg between 1831-1848.

Copies of covering letters from Brother Luke [ ], De La Salle Monastery, Muine Beag, county Carlow, to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (27 February-9 March 1940), enclosing notes and copies of letters relating to the Conwell brothers, Eugene, Edward and Henry, who entered Tullabeg College in 1831 (11 December1832-21 July 1848).

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).

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).

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);

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).

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