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Letter from Fr. John Flynn to Fr. Fitzpatrick giving the correct title of the church in Levitstown and Moone. 2 items

Letter from Fr. Fahy to +McQuaid explaining why there was no Sunday Mass in Moone. Letter annotated by +McQuaid, ‘not to worry. The mistake was quite involuntary.’ 1 item

Letter from Fr. Patrick Fahey to +McQuaid explaining why the 11 a.m. Mass in Moone was not said.

• 30 June - Correspondence between Dublin, Parkminster (Sussex) and Rome regarding a proposal to make a foundation in Dublin. Archbishop suggests the Farnan property at Moone to Prior of Parkminster as it is his desire ‘to have a Cathusian, not Cistercian, house in my diocese’. +Patrick Dunne (auxiliary) visits Parkminster (where he knows Dom Stephen, brother of Dom Eugene OCSO Boylan) and draws up short put penetrating report. Archbishop’s evident lack of sympathy for the Cistercian life in contrast with his enthusiasm for Carthusians. Carthusians regret inability to accept offer, essentially due to lack of personnel, though there is an interesting suggestion of an historic Carthusian prejudice against Irish foundations. Several brochures on Carthusian life. CF also file ‘Cistercian Monks’. Carmelites Calced (O. Carm)

• Mt Mellery: Abbot regrets inability to take up Archbishop’s confidential offer of a foundation at Glencree due to insufficient lands. Later, Woodstock in Wicklow not deemed suitable by Archbishop. CF file “O.M.I - Glencree”. Roscrea: Archbishop regrets Dom Eugene Boylan’s extra-cloistral activities. He proposes a foundation at Moone, Co. Kildare. Dom E Boylan is elected Abbot! Bishop Dunne’s shrewd observations. Foundations is made at Moone. CF file “Carthusian Monks”

30-31 July 1954 File relating to the curate’s house, Moone. 101/23. Tombstone inscription of Fr. Michael Mernagh, Parish Priest of Narraghmore -1796.