Receipts, certificates, and bills of cost associated with the conveyance of two houses on Walkin Street to the Capuchin friars. The file includes a draft bill of costs from Nicholas Shorthal, solicitor, to Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson and Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson for legal services rendered in the period from 12 July 1915-12 Aug. 1917 (42 pp); Copy requisition for tax costs. 25 May 1918; Certificate for said taxation costs associated with the conveyance (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/13). Certified amount: £46 7s 11d. 28 Aug. 1918.
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.
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 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 costs of John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitor, for legal work in connection with securing the release of John Slater’s premises on Pennyfeather Lane for £100. Total costs: £9 10s 3d. With receipt.
Assignment from Mary Deegan, Walkin Street, to Fr. Patrick Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. and Fr. Denis Thaddeus Field OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, of a dwelling house and premises situated on Walkin Street. The deed recites that Kate Horner (died 17 Aug. 1933) was possessed of premises on Walkin Street held on a monthly or weekly tenancy from the Corporation of Kilkenny. Mary Deegan, as Kate Horner’s executrix, agrees to sell the deceased’s interest in the premises subject to the payment of rent and the performance of the tenant’s obligations for £100. With copy memoranda of agreement and copy probate of Mary Kate Horner dated 10 Oct. 1933.
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.
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.
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.
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.
