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 by Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC, Fr. Louis Pellicetti OSFC and Fr. Bernard Precious OSFC, Catholic clergymen, Queen Street, and Abraham Sutton, White Street, shop owner, to James O’Connell and others of a large room on the ground floor of the premises lately demised by the lessors from Robert Warner (see CA HT/2/1/2/13) ‘now known as the room of the Third Order of St. Francis’, on Charlotte Quay, for 740 years at the yearly rent of £40. A sketch map of the demised premises (measuring 36 feet by 34 feet) is attached. With counterpart lease and fire policy from Atlas Assurance Company, for the trustees of the Third Order of St. Francis, for ‘their Hall consisting of the ground floor only, at the rear of a store on Charlotte Quay … in the sole tenure of the said Society …’. 25 Mar. 1877.
Letter to Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, guardian, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, enclosing a bill of costs for completing and registering a deed of conveyance of all the property at Father Mathew Quay and at Rochestown to Fathers Fiacre Brophy OSFC, Jarlath Hynes OSFC and Augustine Hayden OSFC as trustees. The total costs amounted to £28 6s 0d.
Letters to Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity, Cork, from J.C. Carroll & Sons, solicitors, 80 South Mall, Cork, regarding the proposed purchase by the Capuchins of rents payable to the estate of Richard Wood. The file includes rent receipts for the payment (1930-43) of the said rents ranging from £2 0s 0d to £11 13s 6d.
Letter to Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., guardian, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, enclosing a memorandum from the Labour Exchange regarding the claims of Christopher Cotter for unemployment insurance following his period of work as a domestic at Holy Trinity Church.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, regarding liability for property tax and deductions of income tax from ground rents payable by the Capuchin friars to the Dominican Order (Charlotte Quay) and to a Mrs Gardiner. With a letter from Robert McClement, auditor, enclosing a schedule of the ground rents paid by the Capuchins.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Plan and elevation of alterations to the lobby, offices and public areas of Holy Trinity Church by O’Flynn & Green, architects, 3 Westbourne Villas, Western Road, Cork. File number: 816/SD/2.
Bill of costs of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Great Georges’ Street, to the Capuchin friars, Cork, for construction work on Holy Trinity Friary. With a cover note from Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC stating that the bill was presented when Delany ‘had finished the entire convent. On entering into details and then striking a balance [and] alterations being noted Mr. Delany’s bill came down to £1,662’.
Statement of accounts of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Henry Street, Cork, to James Finbarre McMullen, architect, for contract work on Holy Trinity Church, on the adjoining Capuchin Friary, and on 24 South Mall. The costs relate to the addition of an extension to the Church, extensive interior decoration and structural alterations. Detailed summaries of the completed work (with costs) are provided in the statement. With cover letters from John Delaney to McMullen.
