Reference code
IE CA MR/2/4/3
Title
Letters requesting Missions and Retreats
Date(s)
- 6 Sept. 1906-26 Sept. 1906 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
25 items; Manuscript
Name of creator
(1615-2023)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Letters to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minster, requesting parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Ballygar (Galway), Gurteen (Sligo), Westport (Mayo), Claremorris (Mayo), and Ballymote (Sligo). The file also includes some copy replies from Fr. Paul. The Rev. Jeremiah O’Toole, Parish Priest, Kilmeena, Westport, remarked: ‘I have eighteen islands inhabited islands close to the mainland, and I would be pleased if you offered [the temperance] Crusade on a Sunday’. (21 Sept. 1906).