This section contains mainly legal documents including various types of deeds of title including leases, mortgages, wills, property abstracts, searches, and financial documents. The section also includes correspondence from solicitors engaged in legal work connected with the conveyance of property. The material is divided into two sub-series relating to the location of the plots of ground to which the document refers: Walkin Street (later Friary Street) and Pennyfeather Lane.
Copy assignment from Rev. John Empson, Montreal, British America, formerly a civil engineer, to Joseph Empson Esq., Parliament Street, Kilkenny city, of an annuity of £12 12s payable out of the annual rents and profits of certain lands referred to in the assignment of 14 Dec. 1864 (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/7). With the consent of Arthur Joshua Boyd, solicitor, and trustee. The assignment has the same attached schedule as appears in CA KK/2/1/1/1/7.
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.
Copy writ of summons from Nicholas Shorthal, solicitor, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC to appear at the High Court of Justice (Probate and Matrimonial Division) in relation to a case of Peter Jackman, plaintiff, versus Charles and Catherine Dunphy, Rev. William Cassin, and Patrick Egan, defendants. The case involves a dispute about the will of John Jackman, late of King Street, Kilkenny (died 28 July 1895).
Account book of ‘monies received towards the new [Friary] building during the year 1895’. An index is given on the title page by Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC, guardian and definitor: I. List of guarantors on three-year system. II. List of special benefactors with amounts subscribed. III. Amounts received from Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. IV. Expenditure account on new building (mostly with Stephen Lalor [var. Lawlor], builder and contractor).
Expenditure accounts in connection with the building of a new Friary on Walkin Street. The accounts provide details of expenditure including Stephen Lalor, builder (£1,337 12s 7d); Samuel Hynes, architect (£100); alms house purchase (£315 2s 0d). A noted is appended to the accounts: ‘The above items were paid by cheque from bank. Some other items in connection with demolition of old house, repairing of new Alms House &c come under the ordinary expenses of the house’. Includes statement of ‘total amount of contract for addition &c to church and convent, Kilkenny, £3,430 13s 3d’. Endorsed on verso ‘statement of accounts given by Fr. Fidelis on the state of his house’.
Memorandum of agreement of Stephen Lalor [var. Lawlor], builder, Walkin Street, Kilkenny with Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC, guardian, Capuchin Friary. The agreement (compiled by M.M. Murphy, solicitor) stipulates that Lalor will complete the building works on the Capuchin Friary and Chapel in Kilkenny according to the specifications set down by Samuel Francis Hynes, architect. The total cost of the works and labour is £3,430 13s 4d.
Letter from Earley & Company, stained glass manufacturers, to Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OSFC and the community of friars in Kilkenny guaranteeing their work on the ceiling of St. Francis Church.
Letter from Earley & Company, stained glass manufacturers, to Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OSFC re questions over liability for works executed in the Capuchin Friary Church in Kilkenny.
Letters from Thomas Ryan & Sons, ecclesiastical sculptors, 30 & 32 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC, guardian, regarding the installation of statues and additions to the marble altar and pulpit at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
