Letters from Mrs Poer Shee [var. Power Shee], Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Vicar Provincial, regarding negotiations for the handing over of the Archer Chalice to the Capuchins in Kilkenny. The chalice was originally presented by Walter Archer to the Chapel of the Blessed Mary in the Monastery of St. Francis in Kilkenny in 1606. Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC wrote to Fr. Paul explaining that Miss Poer Shee ‘will hand over the chalice to us in Kilkenny to be held until the Franciscans would get a foundation there, when she would wish it to go there (as being more in accordance with its origins) … . She gives the chalice quite freely and generously’. It is unclear from the correspondence if the agreement handing over the chalice to the Capuchins was ever fulfilled. With a sketch of the chalice. The file also includes a letter from [J.S. Gill], St. Mary’s, Lanark, Scotland, to Fr. Angelus regarding an ‘OFM Chalice’ with a Kilkenny connection dating to 1632 (the letter is dated 20 Feb. 1936), and a clipping from 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 39, No. 6 (June 1945) of an article titled ‘The Story of a Chalice’ by Colin Johnston Cobb. The said chalice is inscribed ‘CAPVCINORUM LOCI KILKENIAE’. See also CA KK/8/15.
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.
Copy will and probate of Joseph Empson, Kilkenny city. He leaves all his property to his wife Margaret for her use and that of their children. The probate was granted on 29 Sept. 1859.
Assignment from Fr. John Laurence O’Flynn OSFC to Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Capuchin Convent, Dublin, Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, Capuchin Convent, Kilkenny, and Fr. Edmund Thomas Dillon OSFC, Capuchin Convent, Cork, of the leasehold interest in premises on Walkin Street in consideration of 5s. The lease recites an earlier lease (dated 31 Aug. 1855) from Frances and Grace Blair to Fr. James Lewis O’Reardon [var. Louis O’Riordan] and Fr. John Laurence O’Flynn of the ‘gateway and yard formerly held by Humphrey Semple and the house at present occupied by Thomas Aylward … and the plot of ground in the possession of the said Rev. John Laurence O’Flynn which said demised premises are situate in Walkin Street in the parish of Saint Mary, City of Kilkenny … forever at the yearly rent of £6’. The file also includes a conveyance (19 Aug. 1897) from Beledia Juliana Maher to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC and others of the said gateway and premises on Walkin Street to hold in fee farm subject to the rents payable. It is noted that Beledia Juliana Maher was the principal heiress-at-law of the estate of the late Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC.
This property formed part of the historic Munster Arms’ site (see section 2.1.1.1). It was situated on the north side of Walkin Street approximately two hundred yards from the junction of that street with High Street and immediately opposite the entrance to the Capuchin Friary. The property was bounded to the north by the Regent Cinema (demolished in 1998), to the west by Garden Row, to the south by Friary Street, and to the east by the Friary Street Car Park which was owned by Kilkenny Corporation. By the late twentieth century, the property at 17 Friary Street comprised a three storey nineteenth-century residence, formerly end-of-terrace but afterwards detached. The property had been left vacant for many years. The file relates to the sale of the property by the Capuchin Order to property developers in the late 1990s.
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.
Copy valuation report for 17 Friary Street, Kilkenny, by Ganly Waters Boyd, 5 William Street, Kilkenny. The report affirms that the vacant property has an open market value of £101,000. With attached copy ordnance survey extract.
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.
