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Papers of Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal
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Ard Mhuire Friary Road Signage

Photographic prints of a ‘fingerpost’ road sign noting the direction and distance to Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary (2¾ miles). The signage is an old-style directional ‘fingerpost’ produced by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs.

Ard Mhuire Friary and Community

Photographic prints of the exterior of Ard Mhuire Friary and members of the Capuchin community bathing in the waters of Sheephaven Bay. The prints are date-stamped on the reverse.

Ard Mhuire Community

File of photographic prints of Capuchin friars (and students) at Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. One of the prints shows Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., guardian from 1930-7, with students in the community.

Ard Mhuire Auction

Letter from Lionel Percy, Bunlin Lodge, Milford, County Donegal, to Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap, guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, re items which he would like to acquire before the demolition of the old Ard Mhuire Friary building. The items include the ‘mahogany bookcases in the library’ and ‘the stone steps outside the building’. The file also includes an inventory for an auction of mainly livestock and agricultural equipment at Ard Mhuire on 13 Mar. 1971.

Architectural Plans and Drawings

Architectural plans (elevations and sections), designs, drawings and sketches for the new Capuchin House of Studies and Ard Mhuire Friary and Church, County Donegal, prepared by James Rupert Boyd Barrett (c.1904-1976), architect, 5 Camden Place, Cork. The file includes the following architectural records:

  1. Sketch plan for House of Studies, Ard Mhuire Friary
    Date: Nov. 1958
    Number: Sketch 1
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
    Sheet size: OS; 104 cm x 77 cm
    Note: With colour washes

  2. Sketch plan for basement and ground floors of the House of Studies
    Date: 5 Jan. 1959
    Number: Sketch 2
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
    Sheet size: 69 cm x 67 cm
    Note: With colour washes

  3. Sketch plan of alterations to accommodation block of the House of Studies.
    Date: 5 Jan. 1959
    Number: Sketch 3
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
    Sheet size: 69 cm x 67 cm
    Note: With colour washes

  4. Elevations and sections for alterations to the House of Studies and Friary
    Date: 7 Apr. 1959
    Number: Drawing 5
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
    Sheet size: 110 cm x 66 cm
    Note: With colour washes

  5. Sketch, elevation, floor plan and axonometric view of the Friary
    Date: 14 Jan. 1960
    Number: Sketch 1
    Scale: 1 inch to 32 feet
    Sheet size: 117 cm x 69 cm
    Note: With colour washes

  6. Elevation and sections of the House of Studies
    Date: 9 Oct. 1962
    Number: Drawing 8
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
    Sheet size: 126 cm x 71 cm
    Note: With colour washes

  7. Floor plans (ground, first and second) of the House of Studies
    Date: 15 Oct. 1962
    Number: Drawing 7
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet; 1 inch to 22 feet
    Sheet size: 130 cm x 72 cm
    Note: With colour washes. The sheet shows the location of the Old Ard Mhuire Friary (formerly Ards House) with a note indicating that this is ‘to be demolished’.

  8. Revisions to ground floor plan of the House of Studies
    Date: Jan. 1963
    Number: Drawing 3
    Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet
    Sheet size: 114 cm x 67.5 cm
    Note: The sheet is torn and frayed. Careful manual handling is required.

  9. First-floor plan of the House of Studies
    Date: Jan. 1963
    Number: Drawing 4
    Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet
    Sheet size: 110 cm x 67 cm

  10. Revisions to second-floor plan of the House of Studies
    Date: Jan. 1963
    Number: Drawing 5
    Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet
    Sheet size: 110 cm x 67 cm

  11. Survey of proposed Ard Mhuire Friary and the House of Studies
    Date: 26 July 1963
    Number: No file number given
    Scale: 1 inch to 32 feet
    Sheet size: 76 cm x 61 cm
    Note: The survey was completed by E.G. Pettit, consulting engineer, 7 South Mall, Cork, for J.R. Boyd Barrett. The survey shows the location of the Old Ard Mhuire Friary (formerly Ards House) relative to the site of the new House of Studies.

  12. Details of Altar Rail in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: 1965
    Number: Drawing 53
    Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 72 cm x 48 cm

  13. Details of seating in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: Nov. 1965
    Number: Drawing 54
    Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 104 cm x 73 cm

  14. Sketch plan of sanctuary layout in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: 24 Aug. 1965
    Number: No file number given
    Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet
    Sheet size: 66 cm x 56 cm

  15. Design for layout of sacristy in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: Oct. 1965
    Number: Drawing 52
    Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 61 cm x 36 cm

  16. Details of choir stalls in Ard Mhuire Friary
    Date: Mar. 1965
    Number: Drawing 40
    Scale: 3 inches to 1 foot; 1 inch to 1 foot; ⅛ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 94 cm x 70 cm

  17. Landscaping and garden plan for Ard Mhuire Friary
    Date: July 1965
    Number: No file number given
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
    Sheet size: 92 cm x 67 cm
    Note: The plan was compiled by Powers of Waterford.

Afforestation Scheme

File of documents (mainly from the County Donegal Committee of Agriculture) re a scheme to encourage landholders to plant trees on their lands in the county. The file includes information sheets and blank application forms relating to the proposal to plant conifers for a ‘shelter belt scheme in arable fields which cannot be cultivated in the usual way, on steep banks or hillsides, rocky or broken ground practically bare of vegetation, … and in swamps and bogs which cannot be reclaimed for agricultural purposes’. The file also includes a letter from A.M.S. Hanan re an article for the Royal Forestry Society on ‘southern hemisphere conifers in Ireland’ (12 Feb. 1970).

Advertisement for Sale of the Ards Estate

Clippings from 'Country Life' advertising the sale of the ‘well-known and historical Mansion of Ards and its demesne … extending to 2,000 acres’. The file includes photostat copies (and information re) the article.

A Servant’s Recollections of Ards House

Copy clipping of an article on the experiences of Catherine McGarvey who in 1907 (aged 15) entered the service of Lady Ena Dingwell Stewart at Ards House. The article was published was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (22 July 1987). The article has lengthy recollections of her experiences as a servant to the Stewart-Bam family. It reads:
'All the time in Ards, the house staff were completely insulated from the outside world. Catherine only saw her parents at Sunday Mass in Doe Chapel, and then only for a few snatched seconds as she hurried back to the big house'.

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