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Plan of proposed alterations and additions to the Church of St. Francis by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin. Includes ground floor plan, balcony level plan, and front and side elevations with cross sections. With cover envelope to Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap., guardian.

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.

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Plan sheet for internal alterations at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to accommodate the novitiate building. Plan by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. The novitiate is situated between the Friary and the Church of St. Francis. Includes plan and sections of bedrooms, the recreation hall and the study hall. With a site map insert showing the Friary bounded by Walkin (Friary) Street and Pennyfeather Lane. Sheet number: LO.14 a/1. See also CA KK/2/4/25.

Deeds, correspondence and related legal documents concerning negotiations for the purchase of premises on Walkin Street (later Friary Street) by the Capuchin Order. The principal vendor and fee farm grant holder was the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson (Church of Ireland Rector of Ballymoney, County Cork). Some of Robinson’s relations also had interests in the properties. The file relates primarily to the protracted negotiations for the purchase, and to efforts to trace title to the properties (Robinson had inherited the fee farm grant of rents accruing from the premises through his mother, Margaret Anne, a daughter of Captain James Montgomery Blair). Reference is also made to various mortgages on the properties and to the original fee farm grant of 1705 made by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde. The Capuchins eventually secured the property in 1919 for £650 (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/13). The final conveyance contained a covenant by the vendor to indemnify the property transferred against all rents accruing out of any other premises which he continued to hold on Walkin Street.

Renewal of a lease from Abraham Colles, doctor of physic, Dublin, Richard Colles, Riverview, Kilkenny, Rev. Thomas Ottewell Moore, Leskinferne, County Wexford and his wife Rachel Moore (née Colles), to Joseph Empson, boot and shoemaker, Kilkenny city, of the premises known as the ‘Munster Arms’ on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, in consideration of one peppercorn in fines payable for the renewal of lives in the original lease. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/1).

Renewal of a lease from Abraham, Richard and Rachel Colles, Millmount, County Kilkenny, grandsons and granddaughter of William Colles, late of Abbeyvale, deceased, to Richard Empson, merchant, of the premises known as the ‘Munster Arms’ on Walkin Street in Kilkenny, in consideration of the fines payable for the addition of two of the three lives referred to in the original lease of 8 Apr. 1769. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/1).

Requisitions on title and instructions for counsel relating to the sale of premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, by Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson to the Capuchin friars. The requisitions relate to questionable points of title to the properties raised by the purchasers. The file also includes instructions and opinions from counsel regarding the drafting of the deed of conveyance and suggested answers to queries from the vendors and purchasers. Many of the requisitions were passed by Nicholas Shortal, solicitor, to John R. Peart Esq., BL, the conveyancing counsel, and to W. Carrigan, 13 Herbert Street, Dublin, barrister at law.

Search in the Registry of Deeds for acts affecting the house and concerns on Walkin Street, Kilkenny city, commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’ under the names of Margaret Empson and Joseph Empson between 22 Mar. 1859 and 2 May 1895.

Hand search in the Registry of Deeds for deeds of title of John Slater affecting premises on Pennyfeather Lane, Parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny, from 1 Jan. 1928 to 29 Apr. 1940.

Papers connected with legal searches carried out in the registry of deeds covering deeds of title affecting two houses on Walkin Street held by Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson and others which are to be conveyed to the Capuchin friars. The various searches (common, negative and index of names) prepared by the Registry of Deeds lists the names of the persons searched against, the premises affected and the dates covered. Includes searches against Michael Buggy, solicitor, Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson and others.