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Series contains material relating to the finances of Presentation Convent Killarney including account books, Pass books from Bank, convent and school insurance, investment correspondence and Income Tax. Included are items which trace the financial accountability of the community.

Correspondence and invoices relating to building works carried out in the convent, the chapel, the schools and to house property. Sr Alphonsus Perry, was the Bursar from 1868 to 1886. During this time, she kept the accounts while the convent was being built.
Mr Stephen Perry, who is mentioned in this series was a brother of Sr Alphonsus. He advised her about the buildings and fittings and supplied some of the materials. The Reverend Mother was Sr Louis Smith. The architect was J. J. McCarthy from Dublin and the builder was Mr Francis Nunan from Killarney.

Series consists of material related to the Education Authorities, building of the schools, adding extensions to the schools, Architects and Engineers drawings.

Series consists of documents such as indentures, wills, legal agreements and correspondence of a legal nature. Almost all the items are related to property: ownership, disposal, or maintenance. Some documents in this series pre-date the arrival of the Presentation Sisters in Killarney on 2 October 1793. The solicitors sometimes have difficulty in locating the original Lease or deed
under which the property is held.

This series may be divided into two sub-series. The first part mainly concerns the Lady Margaret Work School and second part consists of crochet samples and illustrations.

Documents regarding Lord Kenmare. A letter from F.C. Downing & Sons, solicitors, dated 11 April 1894, refers to the deed of 4 February 1802 creating an annuity of £100 per annum and the Deed of 13 January 1803 declaring the trust to be for the benefit of a
school commonly known as “The female charity school”.

The purport of the Deed was a grant by the first Earl of Kenmare, to Dr Sugrue, the Bishop of Kerry, of an annuity of £100 charged on certain townlands for the benefit of the poor of Killarney. This annuity was distributed for many years through the medium of the Presentation Nuns up to 1887.

The Trustee was Dr Sugrue. The Deed was very peculiar and from the beginning had caused problems. M. Leonard, Esquire. J.P. Estate Office Killarney represented Lord Kenmare. There was a problem regarding the Deed not being registered. There was a
problem about the appointment of a new trustee to succeed Dr Sugrue. Lord Kenmare wished the Trustee to be a person of his choice.

Handwritten and typed correspondence between two solicitors; F.C. Downing, Solicitor, 22 Denny Street, Tralee and David M. Moriarty, Solicitor, Killarney. The letter from F.C. Downing, solicitor to D.M. Moriarty, solicitor, regarding annuity to Dr Sugrue, dated 13 March 1900, gives a good explanation of the whole situation from the beginning. Handwritten letters from F.C. Downing to
Leonard concerning the Deed of 4 July 1802 and 13 January 1803.

Letter from Michael C. Larkin, of Downing, Courtney & Larkin, Solicitors, to Sr Rupert [Corkery], 25 February 1987, mentions a bundle of old Deeds and Documents but nowhere among them the basic Lease of 1811 – Earl of Kenmare to Bishop Sugrue.

Series contains material which could not be included in any other series.

 Notes on the Kenmare Estate: 1885 – 1887.
 Letters to the Rev Mother mainly concerning the domestic staff in the convent.
 Letter from Sr Raphael Consedine to Sr Finbarr.
 Nano Nagle and T. J Walsh.
 Handwritten and typed history of the Convent.
 List of deceased Sisters whose remains were removed from the old convent cemetery in March 1994 to the new plot in Aghadoe.
 Correspondence from R.W. Oultan re the Trowel which was used in the foundation of the 1870s convent.
 Article on the Famine in Killarney and in Kerry.
 Archival Inventory carried out by the Community in c o- operation with Sr Sheila Kelly in 1995.
 Documents related to the Relics.
 Visitors Book.
 Documents concerning the amalgamation of the Presentation convents in the Kerry diocese in 1926.
 Documents concerning the establishment of the Union of the Presentation Sisters, 1976 – 1978.
 List of deceased Sisters.
 Framed drawing of Presentation Convent Killarney.
 Framed Certificate of Merit from Killarney Urban District Council – Bicentenary 0ctober 1993.
 Laminated page giving the history of the Presentation Sisters in Killarney since 1793.
 Take down Your Lantern - An Informal History of the Presentation Sisters in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1955 – 2005, by J Harris and D Peacock.
 Two vinyl records from New Zealand – Now is the Hour and Christmas Carols in Maori.

Series consists of one photograph album containing black and white and coloured photographs of Presentation Convent Listowel, Presentation Sisters and important events such as Jubilees; the Centenary celebration in 1944; community outings; photographs from inside the convent; the grounds outside; the local views from the convent; the headstones in St. Michael’s cemetery; the mission in Lumberton, New Mexico, Sr. Cecilia O’ Connell; Sr Julie Watson, in Pakistan, in 1989; Sr Dympna Nunan’s 100th birthday in March 2002; 150th anniversary celebrations in 1994; Sr Berchmans Cagney’s 100th birthday in 1976; the visit of two Pakistani Sisters in 2006; and Farewell to the Presentation Sisters in Holy Cross Convent, Listowel August 2007.

33 architectural drawings relating to All Hallows College, by Robinson Keefe and Devane, Chartered architects and town planning consultants.