Ballygall from Glasnevin

Glasnevin (including Ballygall & Drumcondra)

Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate. A hostel for student-Brothers’ at Maynooth. Enquiry regarding possible Mater Dei course for Novice Masters/Mistresses. Project of All-Irish secondary school, Scoil Eoin, Stillorgan. Also mentions secondary schools at the O’Brien Institute (Marino). References to schools at Sutton, Kilmore Road and Ballygall. International Conference on Religious Education of the Deaf (at Drumcondra). New communities founded at Ballygall Road, Cabra and Ballyroan. Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd (L.B.G.S.)

Copy of a typed letter to Fr. Joseph Collins, Ballygall Road East, from Fr. MacMahon. It includes a memo for comment. It concerns the issue of how the Church in this diocese can show a practical concern for the problems of unemployment and housing. It also includes a copy of the journal Agitator.

Office of the County Commissioner, regarding the location of a Church in the Wadelai Estate in Ballygall.

Finglas (including St. Margaret’s) Also mentions Finglas West & Finglas East (Ballygall)

File relating to Our Mother of Divine Grace, later Ballygall parish.

Copy of typed letter to D.J. O’Donovan, Commissioner for County Dublin, from +McQuaid. The delay about the proposed sites for the Church and School in Ballygall is that the scheme cuts into three parishes and the comments of the Parish Priests were awaited.

Letter from Richard Ryan, solicitor, regarding Dr. Fagan who is seeking a site in Finglas to build a house and who has been in contact with Fr. Furlong. The site is on Ballygall Road.

File relating to parish property. Includes information on 57 Ballygall Road, 7, Ballymun Road, 3 & 4 Johnstown estate, 42 Ballymun Road & 61 Glasnevin Hill.