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A note sent to Commandant Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Rising. The pencilled message refers to communication being established with an outpost. The note provides a time of 11.30pm. An indecipherable signature of a captain is attached. It adds that ‘They are protected by the River Tolka’. An endorsement (in ink) at the top of the page affirms ‘shortly after I got a message that all was well / outposts have begun to mean anything’.

A note (in Irish) signed by Éamonn Ceannt and Brian O’Higgins. The note seemingly refers to the establishment of a society to promote Irish freedom.

Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the existence of an apartment in the Ards House called ‘the Friar’s Room’. It reads:
'The morning after the building and property were taken over from the Land Commission Holy Mass was celebrated in the portion of the building assigned an oratory. In the course of the day one of the fathers remarked to the steward “I expect this is the first time Mass was said here”. The steward was doubtful and mentioned a tradition prevalent … [that] one of the apartments is called “The Friar’s Room”. The explanation given is that about 100 or 150 years ago a friar was accustomed to visit the family and inhabited that room. The steward presumed that when he came, he said Mass in the building'.

Note (possibly by Patrick Pearse or William Pearse) on St. Enda’s School-headed paper. The note refers to the need to obtain the ‘creditors’ money’.