Letter from Fr. Lillis to Dr. O’Connell regarding County Wicklow Vocational Education Committee.

• 8 April 1957 O’Gorman, Dr. Patrick J., Aughrim, Co. Wicklow. Correspondence relating to a complaint regarding Aughrim Boys’ School.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from P. O Muireadhmh, Dept. of Health, requesting the appointment of a Chaplain to the County and Fever Hospitals, Wicklow.

• 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”

File relating to the church in Wicklow town. 10 items

• Correspondence between Lord Wicklow, Fr. Mangan and the

Correspondence relating to the official blessing and opening of Sheldon Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, on 11th February .

Correspondence relating to the recruiting of an Order of Sisters to establish, care and maintain a Home for Unmarried Mothers to cater for counties Wexford, Carlow, Kildare and Wicklow. 57/

and Fr. Christopher Mangan regarding the staffing of the new County Wicklow Hospital in Rathnew.

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.