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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.

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.

The sub-series contains the correspondence of solicitors. Most of the correspondence relates to bills of costs for legal work connected with property-related transactions.

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.

Lease from William Clark, Kilinalooda, Cork, to William Regan, merchant, Cork, of a cellar, stores and lofts occupied by Clark (as ‘a general merchant’), and lately in the possession of Joseph Pike Haughton and John Barcroft Haughton, containing ‘in front to Charlotte’s Quay seventy five feet and in depth at the east end thereof two hundred and twenty four feet situated on the Red Abbey Island, parish of Holy Trinity, Cork’, for 700 years at the yearly rent of £113 15s. Endorsed on verso with articles of agreement (dated 15 Apr. 1875) regarding the reduction of the aforementioned rent to £84 12s 4d. With counterpart.

Lease by Robert Warner to Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield and others of a piece of ground adjoining Queen Street ‘bounded on the east partly by a store and concerns in the possession of John McNamara, Edward John Gould and Michael McNamara … and to the rear by Mister Dunan’s dwelling house, and on the south by the Chapel of the late Reverend Mister Mathew’, for 750 years at the yearly rent of £40. A sketch map of the premises referred to in the said lease is attached. The map was drawn by Frederick A. Klein, South Mall, Cork. Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch. With a typescript copy by Gregg, Jermyn & Sons, solicitors, and a registered memorial of the said deed dated 22 July 1929.

Lease from John Lecky, merchant, Cork, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, ‘Provincial of the Order or Society of Capuchin friars, Cork’, of a plot of ground, stores, linnies, tenements and premises situated on Morrison’s Island (otherwise Island Nagay), parish of Holy Trinity, Cork, for 840 years at the yearly rent of £80. With attached sketch map of the said plot which measured 105 feet at the frontage onto Charlotte Quay; 190 feet fronting onto Queen Street; and bordered to the west (140 feet) and north (93 feet) by His Majesty’s Ordnance Stores. With counterpart.

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 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.