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

A bound book of poems written by John o’ Brien, published by Angus and Robertson Limited, 89 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, 1921.

Handwritten list of books from the Convent Library.

Includes letter from Sr. M. Anthony Moloney to Fr. Dermot Clifford, Diocesan Secretary concerning the Title Deed of the land, to obtain permission to build a new Primary school; letter from Michael C. Larkin to Sr. M. Anthony Moloney concerning Title to Listowel Convent National School Site; letter from Louis J. Dockery, Chief State Solicitor re: Listowel Convent National School; letter from Sr. Sheila Mary Ryan to Fr. Fleming, Secretary requesting permission to withdraw money from St. Brendan’s Trust; letter from Sr. Mary Ryan to Sr Anthony Moloney giving permission to give land for the extension to the Secondary School and land as a site for the new Primary school; newspaper cutting, ‘New School for Listowel’; letters from Rev. Michael Fleming, Diocesan Secretary to Sr Sheila Mary concerning the Trustees; letter from Máire de Burca, Department of Education; two copies of a Structural Report on the National School by Malachy Walsh and Partners; newspaper cuttings from ‘Kerry’s Eye' September 1990 entitled Two schools share campus at Listowel’; list of Primary School staff; letter from MIchael C. Larkin, Solicitor to Sr Consolata Bracken re School Lease; letter from Michael C. Larkin, Solicitor to Sr Regina O’ Connell at the Property Office concerning the Title and Conveyence; map;
Photocopy of Indenture between St. Brendan’s Trust and the Presentation Sisters; and handwritten notes with points for Meeting on 29 July 2004, concerning the establishment of new Trustee Boards in Primary and Secondary Schools.

Includes a Christening robe which was made in Listowel in 1860; letters from the USA which were written in 1970; documentation related to the relics which are stored with the artefacts; relics; a Penal Chalice and a plaque which was presented to the Sisters when the convent closed in August 2007.

The Presentation Sisters were founded in Cork, in 1775, by Nano Nagle for the education of poor girls.
Presentation Convent Killarney was the second foundation of the congregation and the first in Kerry diocese.
In 1775 Reverend Francis Moylan was appointed Bishop of Kerry and he took up residence in Killarney. He became a great friend of the then Lord Kenmare - Thomas Browne who was a staunch Catholic. He was anxious to promote the education of the poor in the town therefore the bishop got every encouragement from Lord Kenmare to start a Catholic school. Having known Nano Nagle he aspired to found a Presentation Convent in Killarney.
In 1785, Francis Moylan, Bishop of Kerry, took note of an educated young girl residing in Killarney, who had a religious vocation. He sent her, Lucy Curtayne, to the South Presentation Convent, Cork, to be trained in the religious life, with a view to establishing a Presentation Convent in Killarney. On 2 October 1793, Lucy Curtayne, now, Mother Joseph Magdalen, accompanied by Sr M Teresa Lane of the South Presentation arrived in Killarney and opened school on the following Monday.
They took possession of three tenement houses in New Street and lived there until 1801 when due to some legal reason they were forced to leave. Then they rented a house for two years until 1803, while a convent and school were being built. They remained there for seventy-five years – while both numbers of Sisters and pupils grew. The fourth and final building occupied by the Presentation Sisters in Killarney was built on land given by the late Earl of Kenmare. The work on the building began in 1875. The Sisters took up residence in the new convent in 1878.
In 1809, Mother Joseph Curtayne left Killarney to start the Presentation Convent Tralee. In 1838, Mother Teresa Kelly founded Presentation Convent, Miltown and went from there to found Presentation Convent, Listowel in 1844. Sr. M. Clare Barry, who was professed in Killarney, went from Miltown to found Presentation Convent, Millstreet.
In 1833 the schools conducted by the Presentation Sisters in Killarney came under the Board of National Education. In 1887, the Primary schools were built. A Secondary School was established in 1948 and in 1951 a spacious modern building was built. In 1961, a second extension was built. Free Education and Free Transport were introduced by the government in 1967. In 1984, a third extension including a modern Gymnasium was completed.
In 1973 it was decided that the pupils and staff of Presentation Primary School would transfer to the Mercy Primary School until the new school opened in Ballycasheen in 1977 when some staff and one Presentation Sister started teaching there.
Presentation Convent Killarney joined the diocesan amalgamation in Kerry in 1927. In 1976 the Union of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary was established, and the Presentation Sisters in Killarney became members of the South West Province Ireland. From 1980 onwards there were less vocations to the Religious Life. Gradually the number of Sisters became less.
The convent closed on 17 November 2021. The five remaining Sisters were assigned to other convents in Kerry.
The collection consists of records relating to the Presentation Convent in Killarney from the foundation of the convent in 1793 to the closure of the convent in 2021. The subfonds includes material relating to the history of the Killarney community, the Primary School and the Secondary School, photographs, publications and correspondence. It also includes financial material which covers building works income and expenditure accounts, religious life and legal material.

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.

A typed copy of the Annals from 1970 to 1981.

This series of books of a religious nature give a clear indication of the interest of the Sisters in Religious life as it was lived both within their own congregation and in Australia. Includes the following items: Black covered bound notebook, very old important item – Part of the Rules and Constitutions of the Presentation Order for the convent at Killarney.Handwritten Rule for the community in Killarney by Bishop Francis Moylan, Bishop of Cork, 22 July 1806.
2 hard backed bound notebooks with handwritten Rules.
Constitutions of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Victoria, Australia 1915.
Rules and Constitutions of the Institute of the Religious Sisters of the Presentation of the Ever Blessed Virgin Mary, 1809.
Rules and Constitutions of the Institute of the Religious sisterhood of the Presentation of the Ever Blessed Virgin Mary, 1854.
Canonical Legislation concerning Religious 1981.
Regulations of the Presentation Religious Killarney.
Institute of the Religious sisterhood – Constitutions 1809.
Constitutions Diocese of Kerry 1939.
Constitutions 1935.
Provincial Amalgamation of the Nuns of the Presentation Order in the State of Victoria, Australia Report of Conference Supplementary Rules.
Folder
File includes letters from the Mother General, Sr. M. Finbarr O’ Connell, to Communities regarding the changes in the rules pertaining to the daily religious Life of the Sisters during the 1960s.

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.