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Address to Archbishop Ignatius Persico OSFC (1823-1896) by the tertiaries of Kilkenny. Persico travelled throughout the country from July 1887 until January 1888 consulting prominent members of the hierarchy in relation to the Plan of Campaign and nationalist political agitation.

Guarantee form for an AGA boiler and cooker from A.H. Masser Ltd., engineers and merchants, Annesley Works, East Wall Road, Dublin.

Agreement from Fr. William Travers OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Bourke OFM Cap. and Fr. Jeremiah Kelleher OFM Cap., Rochestown, County Cork, to Patrick Phelan, coal merchant, Friary Street, Kilkenny. The agreement notes that the Capuchin friars are intending to demolish a dwelling house known as No. 47 Friary (formerly Walkin) Street and erect a new building. Reference is made to the possible inconvenience and disruption which may be caused to Phelan’s adjoining business. The Capuchin friars agreed to pay Phelan £50 as a consideration for his granting rights to enter onto his property for the purpose of erecting scaffolding at the gable end of 47 Walkin Street and for the demolition of the existing boundary wall between the two premises.

The file contains the following edition of this Catholic national newspaper: 22 Oct. 1948 (Vol. 20, No. 30). The edition carries reports on the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny and the centenary of the founding of the Friary Church on Walkin Street.

Date: 1733
Author: Robert Witham (d. 1738)
Publisher: [Douai: s.n.], With permission and approbations.
Full title: 'Annotations on the New Testament of Jesus Christ: in which I. The literal sense is explained according to the expositions of the ancient Fathers. II. The false interpretations, both of the ancient and modern writers, which are contrary to the received doctrine of the Catholick-Church, are briefly examined and disproved. III. With an account of the chief differences betwixt the text of the ancient Latin-version, and the Greek in the printed editions, and mss. The first volume'.
Series: Part of a two-volume publication. A reprint of R. Witham’s annotated translation, first published in 1730.

Appeal to Third Order members in Kilkenny to support the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of St. Joseph’s Convent, Busoga, British East Africa, who require a larger hospital building for the care of lepers.

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.

Documents relating to an application to the Charitable Commissioners by the FMC Trust. The documents relate to an application by the Trust for a sale of the trustee’s interest in 17 Friary Street located at the junction of Friary Street and Garden Row with the yard at the rear thereof held by the Capuchin Order under a fee farm grant dated 29 Oct. 1898. The file includes:
• Draft and copy application forms.
• Copy declarations by Fr. Leo Cullen OFM Cap. in which he states that the said property has been in the possession of the Capuchin Order since at least 1912. 26 July 1996; 2 Dec. 1997.
• Copy public notices.
• Copy of orders from the Charitable Commissioners.
• Copy affidavit of Seamus Brennan, solicitor, Abbey Bridge, Dean Street, Kilkenny. 1 Dec. 1999.
• Copy statutory acknowledgment and undertaking of the FMC Trust.
• Copy memorandum and articles of association of the FMC Trust.

This series comprises historical catalogues and schedules of papers held in the Archives of the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. Some of the papers listed in these catalogues are now held in the Provincial Archives in Dublin. Other records referenced in the catalogues have evidently been lost. See also the large bound volume titled ‘Archives of the Franciscan Capuchin Monastery, Kilkenny’ at CA KK/1/3/1.