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AGA Boiler Guarantee

Guarantee form for an AGA boiler and cooker from A.H. Masser Ltd., engineers and merchants, Annesley Works, East Wall Road, Dublin.

Bills of costs from W.K. Cleere & Son

Bills of costs from W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. for contract work on St. Anne’s Shrine and for the extension of the floor in the Third Order Chapel.

Building works’ account book

Building works’ account book

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).

Correspondence re renovations to Friary and Church

Correspondence, tender documents, bills of account and minutes of meetings regarding the extensive renovation work on the Church of St. Francis and adjoining Friary in Kilkenny. Principal correspondents included Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., guardian, C. Harvey Jacob Harvey & Associates, architects, 29 The Mall, Waterford, P.M. Cantwell Ltd., building contractors, 11 Upper Patrick Street, Kilkenny, Liam Tyrrell, painting contractor, 4 Pius XII Terrace, Circular Road, Kilkenny and Donal McDonald, stone, and marble craftsman, Maddoxtown, County Kilkenny. The main building work entailed a re-design of the sanctuary area of the Church to bring it into line with current liturgical practice, the erection of a porch at the back of the Church and the remedying of dampness and mould growth in the main body of the Church building. The work included the installation of a new central heating system and an insulated lining in all walls and roofs, the painting of all exterior walls and the replacing of windows and storm glazing. The total cost of the renovation work was £118,917.

Correspondence regarding designs for new confessionals

Correspondence of John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, Messrs W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, regarding the design, dimensions, and installation of new confessional boxes in the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The enclosed designs of the new confessionals by John J. Robinson are extant at CA KK/2/3/17.

Correspondence regarding extension to the sacristy

Correspondence between John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, Messrs W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, and Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OSFC regarding the specification for work on the extension to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The enclosed plans and alternative ‘schemes’ for the extension to the sacristy are at CA KK/2/3/20.

Correspondence regarding the repair of church organ

Correspondence concerning a dispute over a contract to repair the organ at the Church of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The correspondents include The John Compton Organ Company (Ireland), Penmare, Glenageary Hill, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., guardian, and John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny.

Estimates for heating and boiler works

Estimates and specifications from Maguire & Gatchell Ltd., 10 Dawson Street, Dublin, and Musgrave & Co., Ltd, Belfast, for heating and boiler works at the Capuchin Church and Friary, Kilkenny. Sent to Fr. Camillus Killian OSFC, guardian.

Expenditure accounts for new Friary building

Expenditure accounts for new Friary building

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’.

Letters from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC

Letters from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., St. Bonaventure’s Hostel, Cork, and Holy Trinity Friary, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a trace sketch and drawing of the planned extension to the Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny.

Fitzgibbon, Edwin, 1874-1938, Capuchin priest

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