Material on retreats and the retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
- IE IJA FM/RATH/278
- File
- 1922-1974
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Material on retreats and the retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (removed from ledger folder). Includes:
- list of retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle and notice of opening of retreat house (1922);
- Honorary Secretary's Reports (November 1947-March 1949);
- list of house renovations (August 1949-August 1950);
- costings and receipts for work on the retreat house which includes glass, grotto, kneelers, lamp, radiators, roof, statutes and tabernacle (1949-1962);
- ‘History of Our Lady's Grotto, erected by D.U.T. Co. Employees 1925’ by Thomas Scally, ex-Superintendent. Includes references to the Jesuit school, St Francis Xavier, Lower Dorset Street, better known as Father Gaffney's school (1 April 1950);
- income and expenditure for Laymen's Retreat Association (1948-1953);
- newsletter of the Laymen's Retreat Association, Rathfarnham Castle entitled the Week End Echo (vol. 1-5, 7), (Christmas 1953-September 1955);
- handicap sweepstakes results for Laymen's Retreat Association at Rathfarnham Castle (1954-55)
- order of time for retreats for Chinese students at Rathfarnham Castle (4 April 1955);
- correspondence from Michael Scott, Architect, for drawings of the retreat house, Rathfarnham Castle (1955-57);
- income for retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle (1958-59);
- schedule of estimates for proposed decoration at Rathfarnham Castle (1958-1961);
- drawings, correspondence and accounts from James A. Doyle Architect, for works at the retreat house, Rathfarnham Castle (1959-1960);
- newspaper report of ‘Restoration of grotto erected in 1924 by D.U.T.C. men’ from Nuacht CIE (23 October 1964);
- notes on Laymen’s Retreat Association at Rathfarnham Castle, Christian Life Communities (CLC) seminar (21 April 1974);
- Guidelines for the constitution for the Laymen's Retreat Association & Christian Life Communities (CLC) (1977);
- notice of the restoration work done by the Association of Retreat Promotors for the Laymen’s Retreat Association (nd.);
- postcard with order of time on reverse of weekend retreats at Rathfarnham Castle and notice of non-attendance (nd.);