Alphabetical index to title deeds, leases, indentures, and other legal documents associated with properties held by the Capuchin friars, Church Street. Entries are listed alphabetically by the parties involved, type of indenture, bundle and reference number and year. The reference number may relate to the number ascribed to the deeds by solicitors and conveyancing counsels. The title page of the volume is annotated: ‘This book is indexed to all the legal papers in connection with the property of the Roman Catholic Church, Church Street’. Gilt title on front cover of volume: ‘Enrolment Register’. See also CA CS/2/4/5.
Schedule of rents paid by the Capuchin community, Church Street. The schedule includes entries under headings of landlords, rents payable and location. The schedule reads: John Jameson £75 0s 0d Space in front of Friary and passage John Jameson £13 10s 0d Mrs. K. Pratt and others £25 5 2d Congleton Estate £30 0s 0d Part of garden Falls Estate £3 0s 0d Cornwall Brady £10 0s 0d Part of garden More O’Ferrall £51 8s 0d Friary and part of garden Kate Plunkett £10 0s 0d A note attached to the schedule affirms that the last item has been paid up to 1940 to the Loreto Convent, Gorey, to defray the education of a Miss Aileen Smyth. This has now ceased, and the rent is now payable to Kathleen Corcoran. With a note by Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the payment of income tax on the Plunkett estate. See also CA CS/2/2/6/8.
‘Return showing the names of persons subscribing towards the repairs of the above-named Church and Convent’ (Cork: Flynn & Company, printers, 66 George’s Street, Cork). A printed appeal on the inside front cover refers to the need for funds to execute the necessary buildings and repairs as ‘with the approach of winter, the Community find themselves literally "without a roof over their heads"’. The account book is incomplete and relates only to the Coburg Street districts. Entries are listed under names, residences and amount of weekly subscriptions. The remainder of the volume contains a history of the vicissitudes of the Irish Capuchins in the late nineteenth century. Includes short biographical notes on Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC (Vice-Provincial and later Commissary General), Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (a Capuchin friar from Lyons, France, who was Commissary General of the Cork and Rochestown houses) and Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (first Provincial Minister of the reconstituted Irish Capuchin Province in 1885).
Copy articles from the 'Cork Daily Herald' and 'Cork Examiner' referring to the architectural style and construction of the new Capuchin Friary adjoining Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork.
Letters to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Robert McClement, auditor, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, concerning income tax deductions from rents paid by the Capuchin friars and fees connected with his work for the Order in filing charitable exemption claims.
Letter to Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (1898-1945), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, regarding a claim for a reduction of rent from Brabants Ltd. who hold property from the Capuchin friars on Queen Street, and to the rents due from the Electrification Radio Company.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch; 1/8 inch to 1 foot Plans by Charles McCarthy & Son, Emmet Place, Cork, Richard Hennessy & Sons, engineers and contractors, 61 Grand Parade, Cork, and Thomas H.M. Wain, 15 Cook Street, consulting engineer, Cork. They show heating and piping installations for the ground, first and second floors of the Holy Trinity Friary and Church, Cork. For documentation relating to this building work see CA HT/2/5/22.
Weekly receipt and expenditure book for the Capuchin community, Church Street, from 1930-1960. The pages are pre-paginated in the volume. Titled to the spine: ‘Day Book’. Details are given of the date of receipt of goods, names of persons or firms supplying goods in respect of expenses. Entries for receipts relate primarily to income derived from masses, retreats, alms, donations, and bequests. The title page is annotated: ‘Commenced January 1930 (Fr. Angelus, Guardian); Ended May 1960 (Fr. Virgilius, Guardian)’.
Receipt and expenditure ledger for the Capuchin community, Church Street. From June 1960-Dec. 1967 the volume contains a record of income and expenditure accounts. The income primarily relates to monies received from masses, street collections, sodality payments and subscriptions, chaplaincy work, and donations. From Sept. 1967-May 1972 the volume contains a record of cheque payments relating to expenditure on staff wages, household goods, laundries, transport and mass incomes sent to the Provincial Curia. The entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Bursar. An annotation on the title page reads ‘Commenced June 1960 (Fr. Viriglius, Guardian)’.
Monthly cash expenditure book for the Capuchin community, Church Street. The book provides details and accounts of expenditure in respect of wages, utilities, travel accounts, stationary etc. Yearly summaries of cash payments from 1972-84 are extant from pp 134-8. The accounts are routinely signed by Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., Provincial Bursar.
