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.
Requisitions on title on behalf of the trustees of the Cork Assembly Rooms relating to rents payable under the lease of certain premises on Queen Street dated 1 Jan. 1846 (see CA HT/2/1/1/9). The requisitions also ask for negative searches in the Registry of Deeds against Fr. Thomas Matthew O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Michael Leonard Brophy OSFC and Fr. Michael Fidelis Neary OSFC. Prepared by Gregg, Jermyn & Sons, solicitors, Cork.
Tenancy agreements by Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and others for the letting of portions of no. 24 South Mall, Cork, to Nellie Gormley, 37 Grand Parade, Cork, at the yearly rent of £50, and to Adolph M. Sandler, Great George’s Street, Cork, at the monthly rent of £2 18s 4d.
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.
Copy memorial of an assignment from Bryan Sheehy and others, assignees of the estate of Paul Benson, merchant, to Charles Ferguson, of the residue of a lease of 900 years held by Benson from Ebenezer Morrison (dated 6 May 1776) of premises on Morrison’s Island at the yearly rent of £54.
Copy will of Ebenezer Morrison of the city of Cork, extracted from the Registry of the Diocese of Cork and Ross. He bequeaths to Rev. Archdeacon Corker and Robert Rogers his interest ‘in the marsh called Island Nagay otherwise Morrison’s Island held under a lease made by Charles Dunbarr, and also in the Marsh thereunto joining held under a lease made by Nathaniel Lavite, deceased, … situate in the south suburbs of the city of Cork’ in trust for his daughter Margaret Morrison.
Photographic print of the exterior of Holy Trinity Church and the adjoining Capuchin Friary taken from the opposite side of the River Lee on O’Sullivan’s Quay
Programme card for the centenary celebrations of the inauguration of the temperance campaign by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at Holy Trinity Church (presided over by the Most Rev. Daniel Colahan, Bishop of Cork) and at City Hall Cork (oration delivered by the Most Rev. Jeremiah Kinane, 1884-1959, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore).
