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Includes:
 Large notebook containing entries with the yearly expenditure of Durrow Convent. The back of the notebook also contains annal entries from 1915 to 1969. Annal entries have overlaps with entries in IE/PBVM/67/1/1/1.
 Small notebook containing five pages of information relating to costs in Durrow Convent.

A photocopy of Irish Rococo Plasterwork by Desmond Guinness which includes information on the Francini Brothers and Robert Adam. Examples of the Francini style of stucco work can be seen in Castle Durrow.

Two copies of A Record of 84 Years Presentation Sisters Durrow. Outlines the history of the Presentation community in Durrow from 1914-1998.

Material relating to sale and closure of Castlecomer Convent including a Ceremony for Closure booklet, Law Society General Conditions of Sale for the convent, list of convent items for auction Mealy's auction catalogue, a list of donated items upon the closure of the convent, Kilkenny People newspaper clipping, letter from M.J. Crotty & Son and a note from Vera to the Castlecomer Sisters.

Four folders containing very old Art Journals with illustrations, drawings of Flat Needle Point Irish Lace, Portfolio of Spanish Art, Portfolio of Italian Art. Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools and Classes & for the use of Craftsmen, loose pages of very old books from “The Art of illuminating”.

Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education. Irish Lace Report.
Upon visits to convents, classes and schools where lace -making and designing for lace are taught, as well as upon steps taken for assisting the development of the lace industry in Ireland, with illustrations of specimens of recently produced laces. The Report mentions Presentation Convents Tralee, Dingle, Killarney and Youghal, Co. Cork.

This box also contains two wooden embroidery hoops, a set of instruments for lace- making, samples of small crochet squares, lengths of crochet borders, sample of lace collar with the name Sr de Lourdes, Presentation Convent Killarney on the back of it.

This notebook relates to the Secondary school students who were members of Pioneer Total Abstinence Association which was established for the youth. It includes the names, addresses, date, Period of Commitment, Date on which Commitment expires and Signatures.

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.

A handwritten account of the early years of the convent founded at Dingle on 20 October 1829 by Sisters Mary Agnes Lonergan, Teresa Fitzharris and Francis Dunne from the convent in Tralee, under the authority of the Right Reverend Dr Cornelius Egan Bishop of Kerry. The annals record the establishment of the convent, the large numbers receiving the Sacraments, the famine in 1847 and how the Sisters tried to help those who were starving, mention of Daniel O’ Connell, the Liberator, and the beginnings of the industrial school in 1851.

A handwritten account of events at Dingle Convent from 1869 to 1898; includes newspaper cuttings about the bishops of Kerry. The Annals record the details of the Sisters daily prayer life and devotions, renovations and painting of the house, Sisters entering, professions and the deaths of Sisters; and the building of a spacious school in 1872.

A handwritten account recording details of the new classrooms which were added to the Secondary School; the appointment of Bishop Eamonn Casey as Bishop of Kerry; newspaper cuttings; co-operation with the Christian Brothers and the Technical School; the day to day life of the convent and deaths within the community. In 1976 there is mention of the Decree of Union which was officially promulgated on 25 July 1976. Includes details of the Sisters moving from the convent to a new building in 1998 and the beginnings a new project which was named “An Díseart”.