Item 2 - Fire Insurance Policy: Irish Catholic Church Property Insurance Co., Limited to the Capuchin Franciscan Monastery Farm, Rochestown

2 pp; printed

Fire insurance policy (No. 11340) issued by the Irish Catholic Church Property Insurance Co., Limited to the Superior of the Franciscan Capuchin Friary in Rochestown, County Cork. Valued at a total sum insured of £1,500 for an annual premium of £2 14s. 0d., the document covers the agricultural holdings of the estate, itemizing a six-part inventory of the Insured’s Farm at Rochestown. Covered assets include a stone-built and slated farm dwellinghouse (£450), a timber-built and iron-roofed shed (£300), agricultural produce consisting of hay (£100) and corn and straw in the haggard (£100), livestock (£400), and farm machinery, implements, and utensils of husbandry (£150). The policy features a typed ‘Pro Rata Condition of Average’ slip pasted across the centre and is signed by company directors Wilfred Fitz-Gerald and Canon James Donnellan.