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Letters to Fr. Cormac Forrest OFM Cap., guardian, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, from the Most Rev. Thomas Keogh, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Braganza, Carlow, regarding the collection of the Bagenlastown quest.

Letter, invitations, notes re agenda and itinerary for the Third Order Regional Congress (Franciscan Tertiary Congress) held in Kilkenny in October 1939. Correspondents include Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Fr. Leo Rowlands OFM Cap. (British Capuchin Province). It was noted that Aodh De Blácam (1890-1951), the well-known journalist and author, was one of scheduled speakers. With a photographic print of congress participants in Kilkenny on 15 Oct. 1939 ('Irish Press').

Letters re attendance and cessation of membership of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. The letters refer to cessation of active membership as a brother and registration as an isolated tertiary.

Date: 1843
Author: Rev. J. Milner (1752-1826)
Publisher: Richardson and son for the Catholic Book Society, Derby
Full title: 'Letters to a Prebendary: Being an Answer to Reflections on Popery by the Rev. J. Sturges. With Remarks on the Opposition of Hoadlyism to the Doctrines of the Church of England'.
Language: English

Letters from [Madge Auld?], St. Andrew’s, Queen’s Crescent, Southsea, Hampshire, to Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (1820-1887), referring to a sum of £300 left in trust with Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC ‘to build a chapel [in Kilkenny] where the Third Order Sisters would meet and masses be said for me and mine’. An annotation notes that these letters were from the ‘late Mrs Sullivan of Lacken, Kilkenny’.

Memoranda of agreements from Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., guardian, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, for the yearly lease of stores and premises on Pennyfeather Lane. The file includes agreements with Nial Godwin, High Street, Kilkenny, at £7 yearly (30 Dec. 1948); with John Carrigan, The Parade, Kilkenny, at £7 yearly (5 Jan. 1949); with Quality Shoes Ltd. at £18 yearly (20 Jan. 1949). With a cover letter from John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, Dublin.

Letter from James G. Robertson to Fr. James Edward Tommins, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, granting permission to remove a building which the Capuchins hold from the late Lady Harty. 29 May 1876; Memorandum of agreement (dated 19 May 1896) by James G. Robertson, Merton Cullenswood, County Dublin, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes, Superior, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, and Fr. Matthew O’Connor, for the yearly letting of a dwelling house on Walkin Street at present vacant but formerly in the occupation of Miss Moore at £16 per annum. With an identical agreement (bearing the same date) amended to indicate that Richard Samuel Owen Robinson and Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, 5 Fisher Street, Kinsale, County Cork, are the lessors; Letting agreement (dated 4 Jan. 1900) for the said premises at £16 yearly; Letting agreement to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC of the dwelling house on Walkin Street lately occupied by Mary Stapleton immediately adjoining the Capuchin Friary at the yearly rent of £16. With copy. See also CA KK/2/1/1/1/14.

Date: 1729
Author: Fr. Adrien de Nancy OSFC
Publisher: Bambergæ apud Joannem Georgium Lochner, A. 1729
Full title: Liber argumentationum super præcipuas theologiæ difficultates per R.P. Adrianum a Nanceio Capucinum
Series: Part of a two-volume publication. Vol. 1 includes dedication to Charles Alexander, Duke of Lorraine.

List of Capuchin friars buried in Foulkstown Cemetery in Kilkenny. The list was compiled by Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. The list includes names, dates of death and other details (including age) in respect of:
Br. Urban Beirne, Cleric Student
Fr. Chrysostom Sutton, Master of Novices
Fr. Matthew O’Connor, former Provincial Minister
Br. Laserian O’Connor
Br. Angelus Moore
Br. Colman Butler
Br. James Kennedy
Fr. Bonaventure Murphy
Br. Benedict Curran
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale
Fr. Robert Ratigan
References is also made to a monument erected to the memory of Fr. Thomas Murphy OSFC (died 13 June 1817 aged 73 years) and Fr. William Berry OSFC (died 20 Oct. 1822 aged 80 years) and to Fr. Patrick Joseph Mulligan OSFC (died 4 Dec. 1853 aged 74 years), Fr. J.E. Tommins OSFC (died 29 July 1889 aged 78 years) and Br. Edward Foley OSFC, Cleric Novice (died 24 Sept. 1889 aged 16 years).

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.