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Sub- series contains account books and balance sheets documenting income and expenditure for Presentation Convent Killarney.

 Black hard covered notebook giving details of salaries and pensions 1956 – 1974.

 Receipt book with details of rent received from house property, salaries, pensions, shares, music fees, sale of lace and grants, 1914 – 1974. Rent book – rent account, names, and addresses of tenants and amounts paid, 1913 – 1924.

 Ledger containing handwritten accounts of the income and expenditure for Presentation Convent Killarney, 1881 – 1941.

 Ledger – Summary of the Revenue Account for each year showing the total income and expenditure, 1941 – 1976. Ledger recording details of the monthly expenses, 1857 – 1881.

 Ledger recording totals of weekly income and expenditure of the convent, 1912 – 1921.

 Ledger recording income and expenditure, 1911 – 1914.

 Ledger containing information about rent, rates and income tax on the tenements in Old Market Lane, New Street and East Avenue and house property including the names of the tenants, 1858 – 1905.

A register of Acts of Profession in the Presentation Convent Listowel.

Includes the following
• Estimates of work from Healy Bros, Contractors, Tralee, to install the water supply.
• Detailed bill of Sundry Jobbing works carried out at Mr Hetreed’s house.
• Detailed Estimates for sundry works proposed to be carried out at Presentation Convent Killarney includes rebuilding a wall in front of the street, coal shed and fowl house, covered passage and gate lodge.
• Estimate for works in connection convent and convent grounds.
• Letters from Healy Bros, Contractors, Tralee, to Reverend Mother concerning progress of work, bills paid and acknowledging receipt of payment.
• Receipts for jobbing from Francis Nunan, for carpentry and labour, work in schools, on property in Market Lane, on house occupied by Mr Hetreed, Mr O’ Connor’s house, the chapel, the school, Mr Shine’s yard, building fowl house, painting, plumbing, repairs, and renewals.
• Receipts from John Perry & Sons, 89 Patrick Street, Cork for furniture and fittings.
• Letters from Killarney Town Commissioners re annual charges for water.
• Receipts from Jeremiah Galvin & Sons Ltd. for work carried out at the convent.
• Estimates for Low Pressure Central Heating Installation, from Charles McCarthy & Sons, Heating and Sanitary Engineers, 1934.
• Estimates for building work in connection with heating from John Hearne & Son, May 1909.

Includes

• Printed articles re the arrangements and decoration of churches.
• Correspondence from Colm Johnson of Robert Creedon & Associates, Architects, 30 Dartmonth Square, Dublin 6, to Mother Gonzaga [O’ Keeffe].
• Re the Chapel and alterations to it.
• Preliminary reports, drawings, and estimates.
• Correspondence re plumbing and heating.
• Mention of tenders.
• Letter and estimate for the altar and other items (elements) for the sanctuary from Christopher Ryan, A.N.C.A., Sculptor, Barrenhill House, Baily, Co. Dublin.
• Letter from Colm Johnson, Architect to Mr. Jeremiah Galvin, St. Mary’s Terrace, Killarney, thanking him for his tender and informing him that he has been successful.
• Specification for alterations to heating installation in Chapel.
• Statement of fees.
• Letters re furniture for the Chapel.
• Letter from The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland Certificate of Payment Due for works described as Alterations to Chapel.
• Payment Due for works described as Alterations to Chapel.
• Quotation for painting the Convent Chapel from Keogh Decorators, Park Road, Killarney.
• Estimates and Statements from Christopher Ryan, A.N.C.A., Sculptor for items for the Chapel and work carried out.
• Booklet for Mass and Consecration of Altar at the Sacred Heart Chapel, Presentation Convent Killarney, 9 September 1978 by Bishop Kevin McNamara.
• Letters from Robert Creedon & Associates, Architects re payment of fees for work done on Chapel.

Handwritten and typescript annals from Killarney Presentation Community. The Annals which relate the story of the Community since its foundation on 2 October 1793 to its closure on 17 November 2021 form the basis of this series.

Annals of the Presentation Convent Killarney from 2 October, hard cover bound volume. It has been badly damaged by sellotape. From 1980 onwards the annals are in good condition.
Most Rev. Dr Moylan, Bishop of Kerry and Thomas Browne, Lord Viscount of Kenmare, were the people chiefly responsible for the Killarney foundation in 1793. The first annalist was Mother M. Louis Smith. Other annalists were Mother M. Aloysius O’ Connor and M. Kevin Walsh. The Annals of the convent consist of one manuscript volume. Early entries deal with the arrival of the Sisters in Killarney, the hardships endured when they were ‘deprived of their convent’ owing to a defect in the lease, the generosity of ’Right Rev. Sugrue’ and Lord and Lady Kenmare who was mainly responsible for providing a new convent.
The annalist records an important event in the history of the congregation during the year 1805 when,

Pope Pius VII issued a brief confirming the
Constitutions of the Sisters of Charitable
Instruction and allowing them to make solemn
Vows under the title of the Order of the
Presentation of Our Lady and granting
them all the indulgences and favours hitherto
granted to the religious of St Ursula…..

On the 15th August 1806, the feast of Our Blessed Lady, six Sisters pronounced their solemn vows in the convent chapel. The establishment excited great interest in the minds of the inhabitants of the town.

Bound book, handwritten and in good condition.

Manuscript volume with entries ranging from years 1844 to 1944. The Principal annalists of this convent were Sr M. Augustine Stack, Sr M. Louis Stack, Sr M. Agatha Martin, and Sr M. de Pazzi Lane. The first annalist Sr M. Augustine Stack, begins with a description of the foundation, of the opening of the school on 27 June, and the arrival of the first postulant to the Community in September 1844. The greater part of the Listowel annals is devoted to a description of the famine years and the work of the Sisters to alleviate the hunger and suffering of the poor. The names of benefactors are recorded with gratitude. The involvement of the Sisters in controversy with the Commissioners of National Education regarding the Cross over the school is described in detail. From the many references to Dr Moriarty, from his appointment as Coadjutor Bishop of Kerry, on 2 May 1854. It is evident that he was a great friend and benefactor to the Community. During 1874, the annalist has listed the expenditure of and bequests to the Convent. A decade later, she describes the collection of funds for and the erection of a new Primary school. The final entries in this volume of the annals deal with centenary celebrations of the foundation of the convent in 1884.

Typewritten volume with entries ranging from 1983 to 2007. Includes Memorial Cards and newspaper cuttings about members of the Community who have died; celebrations of Sister’s Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees; Appointments and Transfers; Plans for a new Primary School; Signing of the Contract for the Secondary School Extension; the celebrations of the Bicentenary of the death of Nano Nagle; Final Profession of Sr. Julie Watson, 28 August 1984; obituaries of deceased Sisters; Youth Year in Listowel 1986 –
Laundry Service for Elderly Citizens; preparation for General Chapter; Final Profession of Sr. Anne O’ Leary, on 23 August 1991; The Family Centre, 1991; Presentation Sisters celebrate 150 years presence in Listowel; newspaper Cuttings; photographs; discernment and consultation re the closure of the Convent and putting the property up for sale; and Tribute in Stone to the Presentation Order, 28 November 2010.

The full title of the register is Application Book for Admission into the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart. No. of Centre 1873. It includes the details of the applicants for admission to the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart.