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Lease by Mary Foott, widow, and executrix of James Boyce Foott, late of Cork, merchant, to Elizabeth Georgina Howard, spinster and administratrix of Thomas Howard, of a plot of ground on Morrison’s Island for 736 years at the yearly rent of £18 9s 2d. The lease notes that the plot is tenanted by John Foot and contains a dwelling house and stores and measures 65 feet to the front of South Mall, and is situated on Morrison’s Island being part of Dunscombe’s Marsh in the city of Cork. (See also CA HT/2/1/1/36 and CA HT/2/1/1/11).

Lease by Nicholas Cummins, Cork, to Russell Deeble, Cork, victualler, of a dwelling house and grounds situated on Shandon Castle Lane, Parish of Saint Mary Shandon, Cork, for 750 years at the yearly rent of £14.

Lease by Robert Warner, Cork, master cooper, to John Henry Gamble, Cork, merchant, of a plot of ground and passage way leading onto Queen Street, together with the buildings and stores built thereon, for 300 years, in consideration of £100, and at the yearly rent of £50. With a coloured map of the aforementioned premises, measuring 121 feet 0 inches by 143 feet 10 inches. The property is bounded to the south by ‘ground in the possession of Mr Warner’ and by ‘Mr. Mathew’s Chapel’, to the north by premises held by Mr Foley, Mr Wood and Mrs Croft (stables), to the west by ‘Mr Murphy’s concerns’, and to the east by Queen Street. Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch. The lease is annotated on the reverse: ‘Head lease of 1/9/1862 (Warner and Sarsfield). This lease surrendered?’

Lease from Benjamin Whitestone, Cork, to William Clark, merchant, of a cellar, yard and linnies formerly in the possession of Paul Benson and ‘containing in front to the quay seventy-five feet and in depth at the east end thereof two hundred and twenty four feet situated on Red Abbey Island in the city of Cork’, for 800 years at the yearly rent of £70. With attached sketch map of the premises titled: ‘A map of cellars, linnies and yards near Parliament Bridge, let by Mr Benjamin Whitestone to Mr William Clark delineated in foot measurement, October 24th 1781, by Patrick [Ahern]’.

Lease from William Fuller, Cork, to Sober Kent, Burgess, Cork, of a dwelling house in which Kent currently resides along with a back yard and garden situated in Red Abbey Marsh otherwise known as Island Nagay or Morrison’s Island, Cork, for 700 years at the yearly rent of £30.

Flier for the Lenten Mission at Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The mission took place from 28 Feb. to 5 Mar. 1993 and was conducted by Fr. Cletus Noone OFM, Franciscan Friary, Ennis, County Clare.

Letter from Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, to Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., apologising for being unable to attend the celebration of the centenary of the laying by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC of the foundation stone of Holy Trinity Church, Cork.

Letter from Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap., guardian, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a schedule of religious exercises to be held in Holy Trinity Church to mark Marian Year.

Letter from Lady Maude Dunboyne, Knoppogue Castle, Quin, County Clare, to Fr. Slattery thanking the Cork Capuchins for their recent mission work in the vicinity of Quin, County Clare.