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.
Scale: ¼ inch to 1 foot for plan; 5ft to 1 mile for site map 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.
Scale: 8 inches to 1 foot 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.
Plan of ‘general arrangement of power house’ for the installation of electric lighting at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The name of the engineering firm is not given. With blueprint of the ‘stands for Vs type cells to be installed’.
Scale: ¼ inch to 1 foot Plan and sections for extension to the Capuchin Friary by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. Includes first and second floor plans with details and sections of cells and washrooms. Sheet number: LO.14(A).
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Plan and sections for extension to the Capuchin Novitiate at Kilkenny Friary by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. Includes plans, sections and elevations of the study hall and various installations within the room. Sheet number: LO. /14(A).
Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet Section and plan of proposed additions to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny by Samuel F. Hynes, architect, 41 South Mall, Cork. The plan is titled ‘Drawing No. 3’ and contains ‘section AB’ and ‘section CD’ for the building work. The plan is signed by the architect. (See CA KK/2/4/4).
Scale: 1 foot to 1 mile Map showing property divisions on Pennyfeather Lane (marked in red ink). The properties are annotated to indicate sub-lettings (1, 1A, 1B, and so forth). Property belonging to the Capuchin Friary (located opposite) is also marked in red ink. Bordered to the north by Walkin Street and to the east by High Street.
Pennyfeather Lane is a minor lane connecting Friary Street (formerly Walkin Street) to High Street and Patrick Street in the centre of Kilkenny city. In the early part of the twentieth century the Capuchins held property on the Lane from Sir Lionel Harty of Belrobin, Dundalk, County Louth. In 1911, it was noted that the Capuchins held two houses on Pennyfeather Lane. On 29 Sept. 1916 a property lease was secured from the representatives of Sir Lionel Harty for 99 years at an annual rent of £60. A portion of this property was sub-let to tenants to cover some of the rent due to the Harty estate (Dr Reginald Griffin leased one house). The outright purchase of the premises on Pennyfeather Lane from the Harty Estate was accomplished in May 1940.
