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File mainly containing letters from the Consultors at Tullabeg including Frs Colum O’ Holohan, Gregory Ffrench and Michael O’ Brien to Provincial, Fr Patrick Doyle SJ concerning the spiritual and temporal well-being of the community, with particular focus on financial affairs. Also contains material relating to the setting up of a temporary advisory committee on administration (1976).
Letters to the Rector at Tullabeg relating to bequests to the Jesuit community by Reverend James Daly, Christine Chicester, James Kenny, Katie Coughlan, Joseph Guinan Mary Josephine McCann and others. Also includes note regarding the bequest of books to the library at Tullabeg by Monsignor Thomas Langan.
File relating to the founding of the Retreat House at Tullabeg. Includes letters from the bishops of Killaloe, Kildare and Leighin and Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in relation to the promotion of the work of the retreat house, letters from Bishop Kyne of Meath concerning its official opening and press cuttings.
Letters concerning retreat work sent to Fr Kieran Hanley SJ, Superior, Tullabeg, by Father General Pedro Arrupe SJ, Assistant General. Fr John Swain SJ and Fr Matthew Meade SJ, Director of the Retreat centre at Rathfarnham Castle.
File relating to the Tullabeg pilot project on unemployment directed by Br Tom Phelan SJ. Includes information from comparative projects such as the Coodham Unemployment Project in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Plans of Tullabeg cemetery drawn up by Br James Christian SJ in 1952, lists of names and dates of those who were buried in Tullabeg; extracts from the Province Necrologia (1818-1874); later correspondence between Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, Province Archivist, and Fr Richard Coyne SJ, librarian, Tullabeg, concerning the Rahan graves.