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Abstract of title of Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson and Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson to premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny. The abstract commences with a recital of a fee farm grant of 9 Sept. 1705 from James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde to Mary Pape of ‘a stone house slatted with a thatcht house and garden in hightown quarter also a wast piece of ground in Walkinstreete twenty one foote in front and forty two foot backwards …’ in consideration of £24 13s 4d at the yearly rent of £6 3s 4d with four turkeys and eight capons or £1 6s in lieu thereof. (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/16). The abstract concludes with reference to the granting of the administration (19 Aug. 1912) of the personal estate of Rev. Richard Samuel Owen Robinson to his widow Henrietta Robinson.

Abstract of title of Joseph Empson Esq. to the house and premises on Walkin Street commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’, parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny City. The abstract commences with a recital of a lease (dated 8 Apr. 1769) by William Colles to George Chapman of the said house for three lives at the yearly rent of £14 10s (see CA KK/2/1/1/1/1). The abstract concludes with a reference to an assignment of lease (dated 5 May 1893) by Frederick Reynell Pack to Joseph Empson Esq. of the said house and premises for ever at the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d. Endorsed on title page: ‘Abstract prepared on the sale by Joseph Empson Esq. to Reverend F.M Neary and Reverend Thomas O’Connor completed by conveyance dated 1 Aug. 1895. Joseph Empson Esq., 1st part, Mrs M.H. Doxey, 2nd part, Rev. F.M Neary OSFC and another, 3rd part’.

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.

Bill of quantities for proposed Capuchin novitiate extension at Kilkenny by Gabriel M. Cleere, chartered quantity surveyor, 11 Ely Place, Dublin. It is noted that the ‘work included in this bill of quantities consists of the erection of a new two-storey re-enforced concrete-framed structure and connecting bridge across Pennyfeather Lane to the existing Friary’.

Bill of quantities for proposed Third Order Hall attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, by Whelan & Co., chartered quantity surveyors, 108 The Quay, Waterford city. Architects: S. McGrath Bourke, D. O’Neill Flanagan & Co., Kilkenny.

Bill of variations and final account for works executed in erecting the new hall for the Third Order of St. Francis at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny by Messrs W.K. Cleere & Sons, builders and contractors, Ormonde Road, Kilkenny. Total value of works: £13,104.

Certificate of rateable valuation for Kilkenny Corporation of premises leased by James Robertson, Patrick O’Reilly and John Slater on Walkin Street Lower, St. Canice’s Ward. Endorsed on verso: ‘Robinson & others to Bowe & others, certificate of valuation’.

Conveyance from Joseph Empson Esq., Glenageary, Kingstown, County Dublin (with the approval of Memmette H. Doxey, personal representative of the late Arthur Joshua Boyd) to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC and Fr. F.M. Neary OSFC, Roman Catholic clergymen, Walkin Street, Kilkenny of the house and concerns on Walkin Street formerly known by the name of ‘The Munster Arms’ in consideration of £300 and subject to the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d.

Copy assignment by Jeremiah Easter Esq., County of Essex, Lieutenant, 23rd Regiment of Light Dragoons, to Frances and Grace Blair, Upper Berkeley Street, Dublin. The assignment recites the will made by the late James Montgomery Blair (dated 6 Nov. 1838) and the appointment of Jeremiah Easter as his sole executor (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/1). The deed assigns all the real estate and leasehold property situated in Kilkenny city formerly belonging to James Montgomery Blair and which were bequeathed to Jeremiah Easter by the aforementioned will to his daughters Frances and Grace Blair. Consideration: £100.

Copy assignment from Margaret Empson, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, widow of Joseph Empson, and her children named as Richard Empson, apothecary, Joseph Empson, shopkeeper, John Empson, civil engineer, Montreal, British America, Eliza Jones (née Empson), wife of Robert Patten Jones, Palmerston House, County Kilkenny, Anne Empson, Rathgar Road, Dublin, and Ruth Empson, spinster, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, to Arthur Joshua Boyd, solicitor, The Parade, Kilkenny city, of the freehold properties held by the late Joseph Empson in trust for the children of Margaret Empson aforesaid. With copy schedule of the properties to which the foregoing deed refers. Number eight in the schedule refers to the house and concerns on Walkin Street held under a lease of lives renewable forever dated 25 May 1835. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/4).