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Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. from Ronan Daly Hayes & Co., solicitors, 12 South Mall, Cork, and from Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap. to Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. re possession of 16 Father Mathew Street.

Rental and account of Mrs Alicia Louisa Seward. The rental includes entries under the headings of ‘denominations, tenant’s names, gale days, yearly rents, total due, total received, allowances, arrears and observations’. The denominations include premises on Queen Street (a portion of the Assembly Rooms) and on Father Mathew Quay, the latter of which is occupied by the Capuchin friars. The yearly rents amount to £151 5s 6d.

Epitomes and abstracts of several leases of properties on Charlotte Quay and at Rochestown, County Cork, held by the Capuchins. The epitome commences with a summary of the lease by John Lecky to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC of a plot of ground upon which Holy Trinity Church was built (see CA HT/2/1/2/10). With a ‘statement of title of the representatives of the late John Lecky deceased to the plot of ground on Charlotte Quay on which the new Chapel is built’.

Lease by William Wise, Cork city, to Robert Hall and Robert Constable Hall, of a store (in the possession of the lessees) situated on Queen Street, for 35 years at the yearly rent of £80. The store is bounded to the north by a store belonging to Pierce Power and by a dwelling house in the occupation of the Constabulary. The property is bounded to the south by a store in the possession of Messrs Crosse and Blackwell Ltd., and by a dwelling house in the occupation of a Mr Sikes, and on the east by an open yard, and on the west by the aforementioned dwelling house occupied by the Constabulary. The file includes a memorandum of agreement (dated 1879) between the aforementioned parties re the construction of additional windows for the better ventilation of the said store.

Agreement by Crosse and Blackwell Ltd., with Rev. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC, Rev. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Rev. Jarlath (Thomas) Hynes OSFC and Rev. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC to take down a wall and construct windows at the rear of a premises occupied by Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork.

Letting agreement of Fr. Honorius O’Neill OFM Cap. with Cross Refrigeration for a lease of a portion of the premises known as the Assembly Rooms, 22 South Mall, Cork, for a year at the rent of £75; and with the Cork Gas Company for a portion of the same property at the monthly rent of £26. It is noted that the Cork Gas Company will let the property until such time as the construction of their new store and offices at Charlotte House on Father Mathew Quay is completed.

Notes from the Cork House Account Book compiled by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC. The volume is titled ‘Notes regarding the Irish Capuchin Province and especially things transacted at Cork from 1825’. The period covered is 22 July 1825 to 14 June 1874. The file includes brief biographical notices re:
• Br. Innocent Mahoney OSFC
• Fr. Anthony Foot OSFC
• Br. Patrick Feeny OSFC
• Fr. Jeremiah Joseph O’Reilly OSFC
• Fr. Francis Murphy OSFC
• Fr. John Mary Brennan OSFC
• Fr. Louis Riordan OSFC
• Fr. Louis O’Connell OSFC
• Fr. Francis McSweeney OSFC
The original Cork House Account Book is at CA HT/3/1/1.

Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. mainly on individual friars comprising the Capuchin community in Cork. The manuscript includes notes on houses and places of residence, a chronology of important events, community lists in the nineteenth century, superiors of the Cork House from 1832-1934, and some general information on historical sources in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The title page reads: ‘This book contains various notes referring to our Cork Convent and taken from various sources. … The notes are entered of necessity in an unconnected way’.

Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from James Coleman FRSAI, 2 Rosehill Terrace, Queenstown, County Cork, concerning information on the predecessor to the Old Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork. Coleman also expresses his satisfaction to find ‘a member of the Capuchin Order really interested in its history … [as] a large number of the Order now in Cork and Rochestown show nothing in the way of literary production any more than the secular priests who to my mind were never more illiterate than they are now’. With manuscript and typescript copies of the Coleman’s letters compiled by Fr. Angelus and a newspaper clipping of Coleman’s letter to the 'Cork Examiner' (19 Apr. 1924), referring to the chapel on Blackamoor Lane which was in use from 1771-1850.

History of the Capuchin Friary, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, possibly compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. The notes are described as incomplete, requiring ‘supplementation and possibly correction’. The first section deals briefly with the history of the Capuchins in Cork from 1620 to 1832. At page six Fr. Angelus traces the efforts made by the Capuchins to build a friary adjacent to Holy Trinity Church. This history is divided into distinct sections:
I. 1855: Very. Rev. Vincent McLeod OSFC, guardian.
II. 1866: Very. Rev. Edward Tommins OSFC, guardian. Includes an article from the Cork Examiner (24 Sept. 1866) referring to the laying of the foundation stone of a new friary. This project was later abandoned.
III. 18[ ]: Very Rev. Father Cherubin [Mazzini] OSFC, guardian.
IV. 1877: Very Rev. Father Thomas Sheehy OSFC, guardian.
V. 1878: Very Rev. Father Albert Mitchell OSFC, Custos-Provincial.
VI. 1879-1884: Very Rev. Father Simeon Gaudillot OSFC, Commissary General; Very Rev. Seraphim Van Damme of Bruges, Provincial Minister. (Includes an account from the Cork Examiner (10 June 1884) re the opening of the new Capuchin Friary.
Addenda: Historical notes re the Irish Capuchin Custody, the ‘dismemberment of the Irish Province’, the transfer of the Cork and Rochestown Friaries to the English Capuchin Province, and the re-creation in 1885 of the Irish Capuchin Province.
The final page consists of an incomplete obituary list of Cork Capuchins. The file includes copy typescript extracts from the volume.