Assignment by Sophia Mary Hay, Sarsfield Street, Dublin, to Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, of the annual profit rent (amounting to £11 10s) payable from a plot of ground on ‘the south side of the Grand Canal leading from Harold’s Cross to Portobello Barracks’ in Dublin. In consideration of the sum of 10s and for the residue of the term of ninety-nine years specified in the original lease from the Grand Canal Company to John Coates dated 9 August 1825.
A Capuchin chapel has stood on Church Street from at least 1720. The present-day Church of St. Mary of the Angels was designed James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) in a decorated Gothic style. McCarthy was also responsible for St. Saviour’s Dominican Church on Dominick Street in Dublin (also constructed in the fourteenth-century Gothic style), Mount Argus Church in Dublin, Maynooth College Chapel, and parish churches in Celbridge and Kilcock in County Kildare. The foundation stone for St. Mary of the Angels was laid by the Most Rev. Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, on 12 June 1868. The sermon for the occasion was preached by the celebrated Dominican preacher, Fr. T.A. Burke OP (1830-1883). The building was constructed under the supervision of the architect and was completed in 1881. The builders were Hammond of Drogheda. Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (1831-1894) was responsible for the raising of funds for the church’s construction and adornment. Two side-altars, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to St. Francis, were installed in 1876. They were the work of Farrell and Sons of North Gloucester Street Lower (now Seán McDermott Street). Their most famous works in Dublin are the monuments to Archbishop John Troy and Cardinal Cullen in the Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street, and the statues of Sir John Grey and William Smith O’Brien on O’Connell Street. This section includes records relating to the construction and maintenance of the Sacred Heart Chapel which was built as an aisle church in 1908-9. This chapel was later enclosed and converted into a large sacristy.
List of head rents paid by Capuchin friars, Church Street. The list reads: John Jameson £75 0s 0d John Jameson £13 10s 0d Mrs. K. Pratt and others £25 5 2d Congleton Estate £30 0s 0d Falls Estate £3 0s 0d Cornwall Brady £10 0s 0d More O’Ferrall £51 8s 0d Rent £208 8 0d Rates £101 15 0d With cover endorsed ‘landlords – names of etc’. See also section 3.5 below on Ground Rents.
This section contains a large collection of mostly lease maps relating to properties held or associated with the Capuchin friars of Church Street, Dublin.
Scale: 5 feet to 1 statue mile Ordnance Survey map of Dublin, sheet 13, showing parts of St. Michan’s, St. Paul’s, Grangegorman, St. Audeon’s parishes and parts of Arran Quay, Inns Quay and Usher’s Quay. The map shows the ‘Capuchin Franciscan, RC Chapel’ on Church Street (constructed in 1796), the Bow Street Distillery, and the area surrounding Smithfield Market.
Trace map and plan of grounds of adjoining St. Mary of the Angels and the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The map divides the grounds into lots showing the endorsed names of landlords including More O’Ferrall, J. Cunningham and O’Brady. ‘Thunder’s Court’ and ‘Willis Court Yard’ are also marked on the plan. With a cover envelope addressed to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. endorsed: ‘What head rents do you pay and to whom? Name of solicitors?’
Architectural plan by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of the proposed extension and new library at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. Plans of the ground, first and second floors are shown. Two copies. See also CA CS/2/6/1/5.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Plan of renovation work on the main entrance lobby to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. The project file number is noted as 251: drawing number 12. The plan and sections are annotated to indicate the nature of renovation work to be completed. See section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.
Bill of costs of M.J. Kelly, 56 Smithfield, contractor, to Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street. The costs mostly relate to routine building work including the installation of wash basins, the whitewashing of walls and repairs to the heating system.
