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Letters from McLaughlin & Co, Auctioneers and Valuers, to Reverend Doctor James Rodgers CM, Saint Kevin’s, Glenart Castle, County Wicklow, regarding ground rent collection at Blackrock, County Dublin.

List of the retreats done in 1969 and 1970, where they were held, how many attended and what each retreat cost.

Letter to Mother General of St Paul’s, Selly Park, Birmingham, requesting a Sister or Sisters for the Retreat house, with her initial reply.

Letter from Provincial to Superior of Little Sisters of the Assumption, York Road, Dun Laoghaire, giving thanks and enclosing cheque for Sister Clare’s services.

CMI/X/H/BRK(4)/27/1 Bound prospectus for sale

CMI/X/H/BRK(4)/27/1a&b Unbound prospectus (with plan)

CMI/X/H/BRK(4)/28/1 & 2a, b & c
1976
Maps of the property at St Joseph’s, Temple Road, Blackrock.

CMI/X/H/BRK(4)/28/3a&b 1978
Architect’s sketches of a house to be built on a site belonging to the Daughters of Charity at Dunardagh. The project was abandoned at a fairly early stage.

The premises at Castleknock were purchased in 1834 by the Vincentians, who were at that time running a school in Usher’s Quay. They initially continued teaching in Usher’s Quay in the morning and went over to Castleknock in the afternoon, but this management of both institutions could not be carried on very long, so the Vincentians gave up the school in Usher’s Quay in 1839.

The seminary at Castleknock, for second and third level boys, was founded by the early Irish Vincentians just after they had officially joined the Congregation of the Mission. These Vincentians were Fathers James Lynch CM, Michael Burke CM, Roger Kickham CM and Thomas MacNamara CM.

Saint Vincent’s College was a Vincentian major (i.e. third level) seminary from 1835 until the purchase of Saint Joseph’s, Prospect House, Temple Road, Blackrock, in 1875 when it moved there.

It was also a minor (i.e. second level) seminary for Vincentian and also originally for Dublin Diocese students, until the Dublin Diocese moved its seminary to Holy Cross College in Clonliffe in 1859. After the move of the Diocesan seminary, Castleknock College became more lay than ecclesiastical in nature, but even with many lay pupils attending, most of them appear to have decided to join the priesthood, and most of these joined the Congregation of the Mission.

The school is still in existence as Castleknock College, but since 2006 it has only been for day pupils. It has also been a lay school since 1859 when the Diocesan seminary moved to Clonliffe. 3 September used to be the standard day to join the Vincentian Community for those starting the novitiate, as it was the start of term.