Copy judgement by the Rt. Hon. John Monroe, land judge, High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) granting a plot of ground with the premises thereon on Sober Lane and Blackamoor Lane to John Rahilly, Barracks Street, Cork. With a schedule referred to in the said deed listing tenants’ names, annual rent and length of tenure.
Epitome of leases relating to Holy Trinity Church, the adjoining Capuchin Friary and the Third Order Chapel, and lands at Rochestown, County Cork. The epitome includes abstracts of leases between 2 Nov. 1832 and 27 Apr. 1880.
A guidebook to the Creeslough-Dunfanaghy locality published by the Doe Historical Committee. The booklet contains an illustrated chapter titled ‘The Peninsula of Ards’ which explores the history of the Ards estate and Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary and Retreat House. With inserts, photographs and a ‘a progress report on the work of the Doe Historical Committee’ written by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap.
Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.
A list of Capuchin friars attached to the Cape Town mission, South Africa. The list notes the friars ministering in Athlone, Belgravia, Bridgetown, Langa, Parow, Tyger Valley and the Welcome Estate.
A list of Capuchin friars in Cape Province, South Africa, and in the Diocese of Livingstone, Zambia. The directory gives the locations, missions, and parishes to which the friars are attached.
Clipping of an article titled ‘Ards House: now Ard Mhuire’ published in the 'Derry Journal'. The article explores (in some detail) the history of Ards House and the early years of its occupation by the Capuchin friars.
An extract from an article by Capt. Francis McCullagh titled ‘The Return of the Franciscans to Tyrconnell’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1931), pp 33-8. The article refers to the establishment by the Capuchin friars of the Ard Mhuire novitiate in the former Ards House in County Donegal.
Transcript of a poem titled ‘Ard Mhuire’ by Peter Kelly published in 'Ireland’s Own', 20 Feb. 1936, at p. 17. The poem refers to the presence of the Capuchin friars in Donegal.