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Irish Jesuit houses of formation Sandford Road
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Conveyance - William George Bailey and Frs Thomas V. Nolan, John Fahy, Dominick Kelly and James Bury

Parties:
William George Bailey, Builder, Cherryfield, Sandford, County Dublin and Frs Thomas V. Nolan, John Fahy, Dominick Kelly and James Bury all of Milltown Park.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent and receivers fees created by and to the covenants, conditions and clauses contained in the Fee Farm Grant of 4 April 1851 in addition to the sum of £5,900. Yearly rent of £123.6.6.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties. Includes a map depicting the extent of land cited in the conveyance.

Material on retreats and the retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin

Material on retreats and the retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (removed from ledger folder). Includes:

  • list of retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle and notice of opening of retreat house (1922);
  • Honorary Secretary’s Reports (November 1947-March 1949);
  • list of house renovations (August 1949-August 1950);
  • costings and receipts for work on the retreat house which includes glass, grotto, kneelers, lamp, radiators, roof, statutes and tabernacle (1949-1962);
  • ‘History of Our Lady’s Grotto, erected by D.U.T. Co. Employees 1925’ by Thomas Scally, ex-Superintendent. Includes references to the Jesuit school, St Francis Xavier, Lower Dorset Street, better known as Father Gaffney’s school (1 April 1950);
  • income and expenditure for Laymen’s Retreat Association (1948-1953);
  • newsletter of the Laymen’s Retreat Association, Rathfarnham Castle entitled the Week End Echo (vol. 1-5, 7), (Christmas 1953-September 1955);
  • handicap sweepstakes results for Laymen’s Retreat Association at Rathfarnham Castle (1954-55)
  • order of time for retreats for Chinese students at Rathfarnham Castle (4 April 1955);
  • correspondence from Michael Scott, Architect, for drawings of the retreat house, Rathfarnham Castle (1955-57);
  • income for retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle (1958-59);
  • schedule of estimates for proposed decoration at Rathfarnham Castle (1958-1961);
  • drawings, correspondence and accounts from James A. Doyle Architect, for works at the retreat house, Rathfarnham Castle (1959-1960);
  • newspaper report of ‘Restoration of grotto erected in 1924 by D.U.T.C. men’ from Nuacht CIE (23 October 1964);
  • notes on Laymen’s Retreat Association at Rathfarnham Castle, Christian Life Communities (CLC) seminar (21 April 1974);
  • Guidelines for the constitution for the Laymen’s Retreat Association & Christian Life Communities (CLC) (1977);
  • notice of the restoration work done by the Association of Retreat Promotors for the Laymen’s Retreat Association (nd.);
  • postcard with order of time on reverse of weekend retreats at Rathfarnham Castle and notice of non-attendance (nd.);

Milltown Park, Dublin

The papers of Milltown Park concern the Jesuit community (1861-1979) and works which have occurred there: Tabor House (1969-1993); The Milltown Institute (1968-1992) and The Irish School of Ecumenics (1969-1980). There are references to the missions, chaplaincy, villas, finances, customs, property retreats, library, customs, rules, studies, health, staff, ordinations, the establishment and eventual closure of a retreat centre at Tabor House, the foundation of courses in theology and philosophy for the training of religious and lay people, Milltown Lectures (1960-1970), Lay Retreat Association and the establishment of the Irish School of Ecumenics.

Material is in the form of handwritten letters, ledgers, postcards, accounts, architectural plans, cuttings from newspapers, maps, photographs, menus, bills and receipts.

Milltown Park, Dublin, 1858-