A history of ‘The Capuchins in Kilkenny 1643-1937 – a compilation of scattered notes’ by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. Parts I and II. Includes the early history of the Capuchins in the city, notes regarding the Alms house on Walkin Street, and the later construction of the present-day Friary building. With a bound copy (25.5 cm x 20 cm) dated at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, 1938.
List of documents in the Archives of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, compiled by Fr. Camillus Killian OSFC, guardian. The list is divided into several sections: I) Roman documents a) Papal; b) from Minister General or General Curia; II) Letters of Father Provincials; III) Capitular Enactments; IV) Definitorial Decrees; V) Obediences of guardians and vicars; VI) Verbal Processes of Visitations; VII) Letters from the Episcopal Curia.
List of scared vessels and other relics extant in the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The list includes ‘Cross containing relic of the true cross and relics of the saints’, ‘Three large missals’ and ‘a set of gold vestments’. The lists include descriptions, measurements, and details of inscriptions on the various sacred vessels. Reference is also made to the Terence Coghlan Chalice currently held in the Irish Capuchin Archives.
Manuscript Memoranda re books held in the Kilkenny Friary Library. The notes were probably compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Particular reference is made to annotations, marginalia and inscriptions found on the frontispieces of the volumes. Some of the memoranda are very fragmentary and incomplete. Many of the books referred to in the memoranda are now extant in the Provincial Archives. See CA KK/10 for a listing of some these texts from the Kilkenny Friary Library.
Archival reference book for the holdings in the Library of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The title of the volume (Eason’s blank-index notebook) is annotated: ‘Archivium … fiosrú 1945 – an 14 Márta ‘45’. The final page of the volume contains a map showing the physical arrangement of the stacks in the archive made by Fr. Hubert Grealy OFM Cap. Includes references to ‘capitular enactments’, ‘appointments of guardians and vicars’ and ‘deeds, leases etc’.
Date: 1614 Author: Fr. Cornelius a Lapide SJ (1567-1637) Publisher: [Antverpiae (Antwerp), Apud heredes Martini Nutij & Ioannem Meursium, 1614] Full title: 'Commentaria in omnes Divi Pauli Epistolas' Possibly part of series: v. 1: Ad Romanos et I. ad Corinthios; v. 2: II. Ad Corinthios, ad Galatas, ad Ephesios, ad Philippenses, ad Colossenses et I. et II. ad Thessalonicenses; v. 3: I. et II. ad Timotheum, ad Titum, ad Philemonem et ad Hebraeos.
Diary of mass celebrants (and confessors) at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes bookings for masses at St. Luke’s Hospital and at other locations.
Register with income derived from community masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The front cover is endorsed with a manuscript annotation: ‘Intentions for Masses exclusive of half-crown intentions’. The entries are listed under date, number of mass intentions and the amount of the stipend. The entries are occasionally signed by discreets and by the Provincial Minister at visitations. The title is given on the first page: ‘Liber missarum manualium commenced August 1886, Fr. Matthew O’Connor, guardian’. Monthly totals are periodically given.
Ledger of income derived from mass intentions at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The title is given on the first page: ‘House Intentions Book’. Entries are listed under the number of masses said and the amount of money received. Monthly totals are also given. A list of bequests with the amount of masses to be said and stipends received is extant on the final pages of the volume. The entries include the Walsh bequest of January 1914 (29 masses said at 2s 6d) and ‘Mrs Fleming’s bequest’ of 8 May 1915 (40 masses at 5s in stipends). A manuscript annotation at the end of this section reads: ‘All above masses have been said, Fr. Aloysius Travers of Cork, Provincial Minister, 7 April 1915’. Entries throughout the volume are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Register of mass stipends received at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The volume includes entries relating to monies received from masses said, masses reserved and for those sent to the Provincial Minister. The final two pages of the volume contain notes re the ‘Kerwick Mass Bequest’ and to arrangements for saying masses for which stipends have been received.
