An image of the High Altar, Holy Trinity Church, in Cork. The altar appears to be decorated for the Forty Hours’ Devotion (Quarant’ Ore). Photographer/Studio: G & V Healey, photographers, 85 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.
This series contains unpublished material compiled mainly by Capuchin friars (particularly by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) relating to the history of the Capuchins in Cork or to noteworthy Cork-born members of the Order.
Notes on the history of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. from the laying of the foundation stone in October 1832 to circa 1856. Reference is made to the construction, financing and decoration of the Church. Some of the notes were copied from ‘an account book of the Cork community preserved in the Archives in Dublin’ (See CA HT/3/1/1). Also, a typescript copy of an article on the Church from 'Battersby’s Catholic Registry' (1851), p. 221.
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.
History of the South Friary, Blackamoor Lane, Cork, by Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. (1866-1946). The manuscript additions and corrections to the text are by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. The history concludes by noting that the end of the Blackamoor Friary was noted in an ‘Old Account Book of the South Friary: “October 6th 1850. On this Sunday the South Friary was finally closed and the new Church of the Most Holy Trinity was opened on the 10th October being the birthday of the Very Rev. Mr. Theobald Mathew’. With copy photographic print of the old friary building on Blackamoor Lane. The print has been endorsed on the reverse by Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. It reads ‘Blackamoor Lane off Sullivan’s Quay, Cork city – behind Tax Office, built about 1771 by Friar Arthur O’Leary – used until 1850 when Fr. Mathew Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity was opened for divine worship’.
Photographic print of Holy Trinity Church and Parliament Bridge. A annotation on the reverse reads ‘The River Lee, Parliament Bridge, and the Church of the Holy Trinity (Capuchin), Cork’. Photographer/Studio: Liam Kennedy, 48 MacCurtain Street, Cork.
