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Visitors’ guide on Rathfarnham Castle history from 16th to 20th century, produced by the Office of Public Works.

Reference written by William E. Corbett, [ ] Engineer, Office of Public Works, for George ‘Sallery’ [Sillery], Overseer, who he found ‘honest…and attentive to the duties entrusted to him and has always does his works in a proper and substantial manner’.

Photographs taken by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ, made by the Office of Public Works of ceiling panel paintings installed by Jesuits to replace Angelica Kaufmann’s panels in Rathfarnham Castle. Includes visitors’ guide (FM/RATH/256) on Rathfarnham Castle history from 16th to 20th century, produced by the Office of Public Works. Words in guide are crossed out, ‘but those on the first ceilings are not now thought to be her work’ and replaced with ‘attributed to the artists Patrick Tuohy’.

Photograph of the Triumphal Arch, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin by the OPW.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Philip Harnett SJ from J.F.Green, architect, Board of Public Works, concerning the restoration of Rathfarnham Castle; essay on ‘Rathfarnham Castle’ by Alastair Lindsay, Senior Architect, Office of Public Works; Notice of talk to the Crumlin Historical and Preservation Society on the history of Rathfarnham Castle by Jim Dillon.

Leaflet on Rathfarnham Castle history from 16th to 20th century, produced by the Office of Public Works.

Information on Rathfarnham Castle, written by Fr Senan Timoney SJ for OPW guides.

DVD of images of the grounds of Emo Court by the Office of Public Works.

Document announcing the appointment of George ‘Sallery’ [Sillery] as overseer over the three works ‘in or about Jamestown’ by William E Corbett.