Specification of works for the erection and completion of the Capuchin novitiate extension on Pennyfeather Lane by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. With a similar specification by the architect for work on internal alterations to the Friary to accommodate the novitiate building. With Bourke’s statement of account of professional fees associated with the project (£355 15s 11d). The total cost of the work is stated as £3,637 7s 6d.
Correspondence concerning a dispute over a contract to repair the organ at the Church of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The correspondents include The John Compton Organ Company (Ireland), Penmare, Glenageary Hill, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., guardian, and John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny.
Day account book of house expenses, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny. The volume includes accounts for routine expenses such as foodstuffs, washing, clothing, stationary, and newspapers. The entries are periodically signed by Provincial Ministers at visitations.
Letter from Thomas W. Franks, solicitor, agent for the Harty Estate, to John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, regarding the sale by John Slater of premises on Pennyfeather Lane to the Capuchin Friary. Franks refers to the Capuchins’ intention to ‘buy this property in order that they may have room for building at a future date … and to their intention to demolish the existing buildings on this holding which are more less derelict’. With a letter from John Lanigan & Nolan to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. confirming that the purchase of John Slater’s premises has been completed. The file also includes an acknowledgment from John Slater, a rent receipt and a certificate of rateable valuation for the said holding (30 Jan. 1939).
Declarations (including copies) of Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson affirming that the premises on Walkin Street which are to be conveyed to Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC (coloured red on the trace map at CA KK/2/1/1/3/21) ‘are either the entire or portion of the hereditaments comprised and granted by one or other of the fee farm grants of 9 Sept. 1705 and 25 Sept. 1705 …’. The indemnifying premises are coloured in blue on the said trace map. One of the copy declarations is annotated by John R. Peart, barrister.
Application forms for certificate for discharge from death duties or estate duty on premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, title to which passed on the deaths of Richard Samuel Owen Robinson (d. 8 Jan. 1912) and Henrietta Robinson (d. 6 Apr. 1916) to Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson.
The file contains reports on the Solemn Triduum celebrations held in the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny marking the seventh centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi.
The file contains the following editions of this local newspaper: 29 June 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 26) 6 July 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 27) Special commemorative editions of the 'Kilkenny People' published to mark the Congress of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland which was held in the city. The Congress had as its theme ‘Social Problems in Ireland’. The edition of 6 July 1935 contains a report of an address by Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.
