Letters from the Most Rev. Anthony McFeely, Bishop of Raphoe (1909-1986), to Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap. and Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. thanking the Capuchin friars for placing Ard Mhuire at the disposal of diocesan priests for their annual retreats. Bishop McFeely also refers to the plans for the Friary. He writes: ‘We understand, of course, that the future of Ards presents you with a difficult problem; we only hope that the Fathers can remain’.
Photographic prints of retreats for religious congregations at Ard Mhuire Retreat House, Creeslough, County Donegal. The file includes prints of the Franciscans Together Retreats at Ard Mhuire in August 1977 and in August 1978. The latter has an annotation attached giving the names of the retreat participants which included Capuchin friars, Observant Franciscans (OFM) and Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood (FMDM).
Copy print of a sketch map of the 'Ards Estate Home Farm Offices, the property of A.J.R. Stewart'. The map dates to c.1870. The copy photographic print is of a later date.
Colourized postcard print of the Catholic Church in Doe, Ballymore, County Donegal. It was published by S.R. Butler & Sons, Carndonagh, County Donegal.
An aerial view of the town of Dungarvan in County Waterford in about 1935. The image was taken over Dungarvan Bay with Abbeyside on the eastern bank of the River Colligan on the right and Dungarvan Town on the left.
