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11 January1941 - 18 December 1942 53 items
Due to wartime conditions, novices cannot be sent to France, hence permission for temporary novitiate at Clonsilla is requested and granted. Changed to Roebuck with condition that a home for the Aged Poor will be established on the site. The Hermitage, Roebuck, is acquired.

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22 April 1943 - December 1945 60 items
The Hermitage, Roebuck, opens as a home for Aged Men. The Grange at Clonsilla is sold to the Daughters of Charity (cf Daughters of Charity, File No.1, letters 27 June 1943 and 29 August 1943.) Roebuck Castle is acquired and received the residents of the Hermitage leaving that property exclusively for use as a novitiate. Permission for permanent novitiate at Roebuck Castle is granted with the condition of its use as a home for the aged.

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10 January 1946 - 15 December 1955 60 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Holy See sanctions permanent novitiate at Roebuck. New wing at Roebuck is blessed.

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24 March 1956 - 15 December 1964 74 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop suggests another home for the aged; a sites is purchased in Raheny. Appropriate accommodation for chaplain on foot of fire in furnished house (cf File Refuge, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, letters 9 - 10 December 1959.)

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23 June 1965 - 1 February 1972 81 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop suggests another home for the aged. Development of plans for home in Raheny. Correspondence re setting up of committee of lay people to raise funds without prior permission of the archbishop who forbids advertising, and fund raising in connection with same without previous sanction of the Vicar-General.

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8 August 1951 - 30 November 1956 72 items
History of Institute in diocese to permission to make foundation Negotiations to purchase property at Edenmore, Raheny Archbishop facilitates Rockwell College in getting Institute to undertake domestic duties there. Court case Reference to Ballina, Co Mayo school dispute. (cf Files Marist Brothers and Hierarchy). (cf file St John of God, letter February 1967.)

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4 February 1957 - 3 June 1970 64 items
Edenmore is acquired as a nursing home
2 cases exclaustration
Letter of complaint from ex-patient Institute acts to set up a Governing body for Edenmore, draft Constitution supplied Archbishop's interest in Scandinavian bishop where the Institute have a mission (cf file St. Francis Xavier, Sisters of)

• 29 December 1946 - Correspondence regarding details of religious life and apostolate. They are granted permission to establish a Residence dependant on Church St. A property is acquired at Raheny. Archbishop expresses lack of enthusiasm for a Thomas Davis Commemoration. N.B. no papers OFM CAP for 1947!!!!

Correspondence relating to routine community life and apostolate. They have permission to remove their theology scholastics to Shelton Abbey, Arklow. Director of French Sisters of Charity (Daughters of Charity) firmly declines to leave Sisters in difficult conditions at Glencree. (see Oblates of Mary files). A beginning of secondary school at Sybil Hill, Raheny. Proposal from laity to have Vincentian secondary school at Arklow. Sisters will undertake new school at Ballyfermot. (see French Sisters of Charity file, also known as Daughters of Charity).

Letter from +Russell to +McQuaid. He informs +McQuaid of a proposed course in theology for the senior sisters in his diocese which is due to take place in Raheny, Dublin but awaits the final instruction from +McQuaid before he proceeds. Annotation by +McQuaid.

• Correspondence relating to outlining details of community life and apostolate. Permission sought and granted to transfer scholastics from John’s Lane to a new hostel in Raheny, subsequently moved to Rathfarnham. Archbishop indicates interest in property to be vacated in Raheny - with view to promote future pastoral development in that area.

• Correspondence relating to details of community life and apostolate. They were scholastics from Raheny: Holy Rosary Sisters (q. v.) and interested in acquiring. Question of introducing Augustinian Sisters with a view to OSA mission in Nigeria - Archbishop favourable, seeks clarification. Question of changing John’s Lane Primary to Secondary level. Centenary of John’s Lane church is celebrated.

Letter from G. Hackett, Raheny, requesting permission to read Ulysses. Annotated by + McQuaid -no!

Letter from C. Owen, of James H. North & Co., estate agents, to +McQuaid giving particulars on Edenmore/Raheny.

and proposed to get them agents in Munster. They agreed, but after costs paid the Church barely made 10/-. In 1952 the Raheny Pools’ Committee ceased to show a profit and closed down in 1953.