Accounts of the history of the Crescent Church and College, including short histories, notes, chronologies, lists of rectors etc. Includes handwritten and typewritten documents, as well as newspaper cuttings and magazine articles.

Accounts re. 15, 16 & 17 Newenham Street, Limerick - list of outgoings and income for the Sacred Heart College in relation to nos. 15, 16 and 17 Newenham Street, including rents to be paid and received,
valuations, rates etc.

Handwritten lists of names of people (both laypeople and religious sisters) to be enrolled in the
archconfraternity.

Two-volume handwritten record of monthly expenditure and income. Expenses include food, wine, gas, electricity, coal, candles, clothing etc. Other outgoings include debt repayment and teachers' salaries. In-coming monies include Sunday collections and school fees.

Handwritten list of terms of sale with regard to the transfer of ownership and responsibility for the field and property associated with it, such as the dressing room, hockey and tennis nets, livestocketc., as well as the transfer of financial responsibility

Draft list and typewritten list of deeds relating to property in the Crescent, which later came into the possession of the Jesuits and formed part of the buildings of the Sacred Heart Church and College.

Page of handwritten information taken from the Catalogues of the Irish Province, including the entries (in Latin) in relation to the individual Directors of the Sodality from the year 1874 to 1898.

Handwritten list of members of the community; probably extracted from the annual catalogues.

Handwritten list compiled by [Mrs] V. Pearse of tenants who, she claims, 'persecuted' her. The list is divided by road/lane: Sparlings Lane, Carey's Road and Dixon's Lane. [Written on reverse of paper from 1912]

Each notebook is divided alphabetically, and entries are handwritten. They include the names and addresses of the various benefactors and the amount of money donated or frequency of subscription to Sacred Heart Church and Crescent College, Limerick. Further information is sometimes given, such as the specific intention of the patron when giving donations (eg., for the repair of a building, or the maintenance of a sanctuary lamp); change of address; the patrons' status or membership of sodality, choir etc. One of the notebooks' title is 'List of Benefactors of the House & College for invitations to Plays etc.', and includes the number of tickets given to certain benefactors. The notebooks include several insertions, some of which are letters from the benefactors themselves.

Typewritten lists of directors of various sodalities in the Sacred Heart College, Limerick and the years in which each held that position. Sodalities include the Sodality of the Sacred Heart (1873-1945), the Sodality of the Bona Mors (1874-1954), the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary (various) (1865-1949), and the Ignatian Sodality (-1955).

Record of income from church collections for Sacred Heart Church, Limerick. Handwritten lists of sums of money collected at Mass on Sundays and holy days, as well as money from shrines etc.

Lists of requirements drawn up by the solicitors of the purchasers of the Crescent field ('Rev. L. P. Potter & others) for Richard Hartigan & others (Ignatian Sodality) including the production of leases, receipts and other evidence of proper title to the property. Includes handwritten replies supplied by the vendors' solicitors.

Costs issued by E.D. Hunt, solicitor, to Fr Laurence B. Potter SJ and others re. ‘Lease & Co-Part, premises in Newenham St. Limerick.’ Detailed list of costs accrued in relation to the drawing up of a lease from ‘Miss DeCourcy to Revd. L.B. Potter & others’.