Particulars and conditions of sale of 47-50 North King Street and certain houses on Abbey Street, to be sold by Messrs Bentley and Son, at their auction rooms, 110 Grafton Street, Dublin. The premises on North King Street have a net rental of £76 13s 10½d. The tenant for nos. 47 and 48 is Frances MacDonnell who holds the properties under a lease to Mathew Butler bearing the date of 1 May 1794. The tenant for nos. 49 and 50 is Patrick Regan who holds the premises under two leases, one to Patrick McDaniel bearing the date of 1 Jan. 1796 (See CA CS/2/2/4/2), and the other to Richard Lynch bearing the date of 1 Sept. 1829 (See CA CS/2/2/4/5). With a coloured map of the aforementioned premises surveyed by Rae and Fitzgerald, 7 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, 1859. Scale: 15 feet to 1 inch.
Statement of title of Frances MacDonnell to nos. 47 and 48 on North King Street, Dublin, pursuant to a lease dated 22 Apr. 1794 (See CA CS/2/2/4/1). The statement notes that Frances MacDonnell has ‘continued in possession and receipt of the rents ever since and on the 5th March 1861 purchased the interest of the lessors in the lease of 1794 then vested in the Right Honourable [Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd] Earl of Portarlington’. With a draft conveyance by Henry John Reuben, 3rd Earl of Portarlington, of a freehold interest in nos. 47-50 North King Street. c.1861. The draft conveyance recites that Anne Boyd (by a will dated 12 Mar. 1834) devised all her freehold interest in nos. 47-50 North King Street to the use of the Honourable Eliza Dawson-Damer, the mother of the 3rd Earl of Portarlington. The 3rd Earl agrees to convey the said premises to Frances MacDonnell in consideration of the sum of £705.
Copy will and probate of John Yourell. He devises his property to his son Thomas Douglas Yourell and nominates him as his executor. John Yourell died on 4 Sept. 1862 and the grant of probate was made on 27 Sept. 1862. The copy was made by John M. Cantwell, solicitor, 24 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin.
Draft and copy particulars and conditions of sale of the leasehold interest in 47-50 North King Street, to be sold at Burke’s Great Rooms, 14 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin. The premises have a net rental profit of £64 1s 6½d. and are held under a lease for 9,000 years bearing the date of 1 July 1862 (See CA CS/2/2/4/13). The biddings note that Walter Murphy purchased the said premises from Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC, Fr. Daniel Patrick. O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC for the sum of £570. With a poster (75 cm x 48 cm, OS printed on blue paper) advertising the said sale. The file also includes various legal documents drawn up to facilitate the sale including a schedule of taxes payable by the vendors on the properties; instructions for counsel regarding settling the conditions of sale; draft declaration from Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC regarding title to the North King Street properties; Draft and copy assignment by Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC and others to Walter and Daniel Murphy of the aforementioned premises. Nov. 1883; draft solicitor’s’ costs in preparing title and particulars of sale; correspondence of T. & C. Martin, James W. Nagle and Terence O’Reilly, solicitors, regarding efforts to trace title to the North King Street properties.
Abstract of title of Margaret Devlin to nos. 133-134 Church Street and no. 27 Bow Street held under lease dated 29 Oct. 1857 for a term of 31 years. (See CA CS/2/2/5/2). It is noted in the abstract that Margaret Devlin and Elizabeth Cordner hold the said properties as tenants in common. The abstract also contains conditions of sale for the premises.
Abstract of title of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, to premises on Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built. The abstract provides a recital of title to this property commencing with the grant of lands by letters patent by King James II to the Most Rev. Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Dublin, on 13 June 1685 (See CA CS/2/2/1/1). The abstract concludes with reference to articles of agreement between the aforementioned William, Earl of Longford and Thomas, Viscount de Vesci (vendors) and Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (purchaser) of 4 May 1869 to sell the above-noted plot of ground subject to a quit rent of 6s 1d a year and for the sum of £1,000. The agreement specifies a number of terms including the furnishing by the vendors of an abstract of title in fee simple to the said premises on Church Street. The abstract should commence with the will of Charles Dunbar (3 Oct. 1778) ‘and the purchaser shall not require any evidence of the seizin or ownership of the said testator but should presume the premises passed under the residuary devise contained in the said will’. Other terms relate to inspection of deeds of title and arrangements regarding the payments of the purchase money. The file also includes copies of many of the deeds referred to in the foregoing abstract: • Copy will of Charles Dunbar. 3 Oct. 1778. • Copy memorial of Sir Hugh Dillon Massey and John Dillon to Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci and Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford concerning the assignment of legacies. 14 Feb. 1784. • Copy declaration of trust between the Honourable Thomas Pakenham, Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci. 25 Apr. 1789.
Letter from to Terence O’Reilly, 5 North Great George’s Street, Dublin, solicitor, returning a draft conveyance and stating that they have no objection to having a covenant reinstated in the matter of a lease by the Right Hon. William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and others of a plot of ground situated on the west side of Church Street.
Conveyance by William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Michael Louis Hennessy OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. Goodwyn Peter A. Lawless OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustine Nangle OSFC, all of North King Street, Dublin, of the aforementioned plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built. The deed is for the absolute sale of the property and the conveyance is forever. In consideration of £1,000. Endorsement on the title page reads: ‘Lodged original as security with Mr. O’Meara, Hibernian Bank, for Father Lawless, 22 April 1876’. The file includes a copy of the conveyance which was probably compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitors, 5 North Great Georges’ Street.
Surrender by James Spring, 65 Eccles Street, Dublin, to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustus Nangle OSFC of a plot ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church (St. Mary of the Angels) now stands. Reference is made to the residue of the term of 99 years granted in the original lease of this plot of ground dating to 4 Aug. 1826
Declaration of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustus Nangle OSFC regarding title to the plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon the Roman Catholic Church known as St. Mary of the Angels now stands. The file also includes a similar declaration by James Spring, 65 Eccles Street, Dublin, certifying that his father Richard Spring, Fr. Daniel Murray and Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC were assigned the said premises as joint tenants for the residue of the term of 99 years granted in the original lease of 4 Aug. 1826 (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). The declarations refer to an annexed plan with the plot delineated in red and the boundary of St. Mary of the Angels’ Church coloured blue. The plan (22 cm x 24 cm) was drawn by O’Neill & McCarthy, architects, and is endorsed with the signatories of the parties to the declarations. With burial and death certificates for the aforementioned Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC (date of internment: 6 Nov. 1840); Richard Spring (date of death: 19 Jan. 1864); the Most Rev. Daniel Murray, late Archbishop of Dublin (internment: 1 Apr. 1852).
