Note from Canon Hamell to +McQuaid mentioning the factor that Fr. McMackin is Supervisor of the University examinations at Maynooth.

• Correspondence between Allen Nolan, Browne & Nolan, +McQuaid, and Fr. John McMackin, Maynooth, regarding the publication of the I.E.R. The Record has been incurring losses over the years, and in the year 23 June 1971 lost £1,408. Browne & Nolan could not afford to sustain such losses and reluctantly decided, on financial grounds, to cease publishing the Record. The final issue was the December 1968 one. 25 items The Marian Year 1968

File relating to the church in Maynooth, mainly to repairs. Also mentions Kealstown chapel and burial ground. 9 items

• 11 June 1971 File relating to boundary between Leixlip and Maynooth parishes. 5 items

File relating to the sale and purchase of lands in Maynooth & Leixlip. Mentions the Coogan Trust and Thomas Bruton.

Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate. They seek entry into the diocese. A hostel for their scholastics at university is allowed. The acquire Crumlin House. A hostel at Maynooth is also permitted. Faculties for Confessions. Order of St. Basil the Great (O.S.B.M.)

Correspondence regarding the progress of their existing foundations. Golden Jubilee of Wicklow community is celebrated. Agreement to open a secondary school at Roebuck; project later encounters difficulties. A project for Kilbarrack. Provincialate transfers to Kilmacud from Castletown, county Laois. A Brother’s hostel is envisaged for Maynooth. A centre for young adolescents in difficulty gets under way at Finglas. The first Sisters of Christian Schools arrive in the diocese to help.

• Correspondence between Dr. Hamell, Maynooth,

Letter from +Dunne to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Lynch Provincial of the S.V.D. Fathers (Sacred Heart Missionaries) who has sought permission to rent the Crofton Hotel in Bray as Glena is too small. This will be used by the students attending Maynooth. He has given permission. Annotated by +McQuaid.