Includes; account of a donation of £200 from a Mrs Ellen Kelleher to "The Right Re[erend] Doctor McCarthy" for an addition to the poor house.

Includes; biography of Nano Nagle and account of her work with the poor, "A sermon preached by the Right Rev[erend] Doctor McCarthy, Coadjutor Bishop of Cork, on the 1st Anniversary of our Venerated Mother Nagle's death" (written by Sister Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Leahy).