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Memorandum by Fr. Michéal Ó Sé OFM Cap. on the chalice found in the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. A note re the chalice reads: ‘Rev. Dominus Johannes Foy possessor 35 annos Rector apud St. Leonard’s dec. 14 Julii 1894 R.I.P.’. See also CA KK/8/6.

Notes by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Robert Wilkinson, a liberal-Protestant Alderman of Kilkenny who accompanied Fr. Peter Joseph Mulligan OSFC as he passed ‘through Walkin Street on his penny-a-week collection'. Reference is also made to Rev. Peter Roe, Minister of St. Mary’s, who sharply criticised Wilkinson for his ‘espousal of Popery’, and to the history of the Walkin Street Friary in the early to mid-nineteenth century.

Notes possibly compiled by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC (1860-1927) regarding the simple professions of Br. Malachy Austin OSFC of Cork, Br. Fidelis Neary OSFC of Freshford and Br. Anthony Cooney OSFC of Killaloe at the Friary Church in Kilkenny. Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC of Dublin, Custos Provincial, received their vows. Fr. Louis Hennessy OSFC, guardian of the Church Street Friary, Dublin, preached at the Mass. Fr. Francis Hayes OSFC ‘being the Guardian of Kilkenny’ was also present. On 21 Sept. 1881 it was noted that six priests were ordained – ‘five of whom were the exiled French Capuchin students, the sixth was Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC of Freshford’

Date: 1834
Author: Virgil; William Duncan (editor)
Publisher: Edinburgi: Stirling & Kenney
Full title: 'P. Virgilii Maronis Opera: interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruæus ... Juxta ipsius auctoris editionem parisiensem. Huic editioni accessit index accuratissimus, ante editis longe locupletrio. Accessit insuper Clavis metrico-Virgiliana, sive difficultatum præcipuarum in Virgilii versificatione solutio; nunquam antea edita: studio et cura Gulielmi Duncan'.

Scale: 1 foot to 1 mile
Map showing property divisions on Pennyfeather Lane (marked in red ink). The properties are annotated to indicate sub-lettings (1, 1A, 1B, and so forth). Property belonging to the Capuchin Friary (located opposite) is also marked in red ink. Bordered to the north by Walkin Street and to the east by High Street.

Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet
Section and plan of proposed additions to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny by Samuel F. Hynes, architect, 41 South Mall, Cork. The plan is titled ‘Drawing No. 3’ and contains ‘section AB’ and ‘section CD’ for the building work. The plan is signed by the architect. (See CA KK/2/4/4).

Plan of ‘general arrangement of power house’ for the installation of electric lighting at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The name of the engineering firm is not given. With blueprint of the ‘stands for Vs type cells to be installed’.

Scale: 8 inches to 1 foot
First floor plan, sections, and elevation of additions to the Church of St. Francis by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin.