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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 material related to the ministry of the Presentation Sisters in Listowel including education, the Family Centre, and the Laundry for the Elderly. The Family Centre and the Laundry for the Elderly were established in response to local needs in the Listowel area.

Memoir by a Vincentian, Father Tom Davitt CM, on his time as a seminarian at Saint Joseph's, Blackrock, from 1946 to 1947.
The memoir was published as an article in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 107-134, and is available on this page: http://www.diskon.ie/colloque.html

An account by Father Stanislaus Brindley CM, of UCD Studies for Blackrock seminarians in the 1940s. Also published online in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 135-140, available online at the same link as above.

Also an account by Father Davitt, who as part of his studies in Saint Joseph's, went to visit the Maison-Mere (Vincentian Mother House) in Paris in 1949.

This series comprises a small collection of glass plate negative images of seventeenth century manuscripts and other original records pertaining to the lives, ministries, and writings of several early Irish Capuchins. These were acquired by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), another prominent Irish Capuchin historian, for research and publication purposes.

Bound volumes with visitation ordinances, minutes of house meetings, student societies. student offices and book lists.

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 documents the founding of the Presentation Community in Listowel including annals of the convent and material related to the closure of the convent in 2007. Also includes material such as Acts of Profession; Register of Elections and the history of the convent; Memorandum; and book of poems, ‘Around the Boree Log and Other Poems’.