Community diary and record book probably compiled by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary. The mid-year diary records notices of masses, retreats, missions, visitations, and other events involving members of the Holy Trinity community.
Abstract of title of the trustees of the Protestant Hall and Assembly Rooms Association to the premises adjoining Queen Street, parish of Holy Trinity, Cork. The abstract provides a recital of the title to the said premises commencing with a lease dated 1 Sept. 1862 from Robert Warner to Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield of a portion of the said property for 750 years at the yearly rent of £40 (see CA HT/2/1/1/13). The abstract concludes with a recital of an indenture dated Mar. 1905 assigning the residue of the aforementioned lease to the trustees of the Assembly Rooms. With a cover letter and abstract of encumbrances attached to the property. See also CA HT/2/1/1/36.
Abstract of title of Francis Henry Walker to the house and premises known as no. 24 South Mall, Cork. The abstract commences with a recital of a lease by Joseph King to John Reynolds (dated 28 Feb. 1805) of the said premises for 800 years at the yearly rent of £34 2s 6d. The abstract concludes with reference to an assignment by Martha Grattan of the said property to John Penrose and Francis Henry Walker for the residue of the aforementioned term of 800 years. The abstract is incomplete. It was prepared by William Guest Lane & Co., solicitors, South Mall, Cork.
Copy of an extract of the will of Thomas William Joseph Barry, 8 Queen Street, Cork. He bequeaths to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC all ‘his estate and interest in the house No. 8 Queen Street in which I now reside, and the premises on which has been built Father Mathew Hall free and discharged from the mortgage which now effects said premises’ on condition that one mass shall be said in Holy Trinity Church every week for eighty years. With a rescript for commutation by the Sacred Congregation of this weekly obligation for eighty years to 400 masses as £50 is the maximum value of the house. In Latin and English. See CA HT/2/3/7 and CA HT/2/1/1/26.
