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Abstract of title of Mary Craven, widow and administratrix of John Kelly, late of 55 Church Street, broker, to two houses numbered 2 and 3 situated on Thunder’s Court at the rear of Church Street. The abstract commences with a recital of a lease (dated 24 June 1858) by Michael Clarke to John Kelly of the said premises for 93 years at the yearly rent of 2d and in consideration of £40 (See CA CS/2/2/6/1). The abstract concludes with a reference to letters of administration granted under Probate (18 Dec. 1883) to Mary Craven (formerly Mary Kelly of 141 Church Street) for the administration of the personal estate and effects of the said John Kelly (d. 18 Jan. 1865). The file also includes:
• Letters of administration of John Kelly (18 Dec. 1883).
• Assignment by Mary Craven (widow of John Kelly) to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC and other Capuchin friars of the aformentioned premises in consideration of £225. (16 Jan. 1889).
• Letters of administration granted to Elizabeth Kelly, a daughter of Mary Craven (died 5 Mar. 1889) for the administration of her mother’s personal estate and effects. 22 Mar. 1889.
• Draft statement of account given by Elizabeth Kelly of the personal estate and debts of her late mother Mary Craven. The account notes that the amount of money owing from the estate was £107 17s 3d. 10 Apr. 1889.
See also CA CS/2/2/6/5.

Correspondence, requisitions on title and other legal documents relating to transactions involving a plot of ground behind Morrison’s Quay. The plot adjoined Father Mathew Hall and occupied a site in the vicinity of the junction of Keeffe Street and Catherine Street. Musgrave Brothers Ltd. sold the plot to the Capuchin friars of Holy Trinity in 1961. Other parties with an interest in the premises included the Cork College of Commerce.

• Souvenir programme for the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations in Cork on Sunday, 24 June 1956. Printed, 25 pp.
• Souvenir programme for centenary celebrations for the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The events took place in City Hall in Cork on 9 Dec. 1956 and included an address by the Most Rev. David Mathew, Titular Bishop of Apamea. Printed, 3 pp. 2 copies.
• Newspaper clippings relating to the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The file includes:
Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., ‘The mighty moral miracle wrought by Father Theobald Mathew’, 6 Dec. 1956.
‘Cork Centenary Celebrations’.
Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., ‘The secret of Father Theobald Mathew – Capuchin / What his Franciscianism meant to him’, 'Evening Echo', 7 Dec. 1956.
‘Fr. Mathew: One of the great men of history’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Dec. 1956.
‘Ireland’s Great Tribute to the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 25 June 1956. A pictorial supplement.
’60,000 Pioneers pay tribute to Fr. Mathew’, Cork Examiner, 25 June 1956. Clippings, 12 pp.
• Letter from Rev. Patrick J. Hamell, Honorary Secretary of the Father Mathew Union, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., re preparations for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary. 15 Sept. 1956. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Offprint of an article by Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., ‘Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / A Centenary Tribute’, published in the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (1956). Printed, 13 pp.

• ‘Hymn to Fr. Mathew’ Air: “Tara Hall”. A song honouring the Apostle of Temperance published in the 'Analecta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum', VI (1890), p. 220. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Copy letter from Daniel Horgan, Lord Mayor of Cork, to Fr. Louis of Urbino OSFC re the work of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee. 16 Oct. 1890. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Extracts from 'The Munster Journal' (1890) referring to planning for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary in Cork. Reference is also made to the contract for the completion of the façade of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew) Memorial Church ‘in accordance with the plans prepared by the architect Mr. D.J. Coakley’. It is noted that the contract was obtained by John Sisk, a Cork builder, for the sum of £5,769. The solemn ceremony for the blessing and laying of the corner-stone of the façade of the Church by the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan OP, Bishop of Cork, took place in May 1890. It is also noted that ‘the spire of the Father Mathew Memorial Church, Cork, was completed on the 15th November [1890] and surmounted by a cross which had been previously blessed by Very Rev. Father Paul [Neary], the superior. The work has been suspended for the present for lack of funds. The sum of about £2,500 is still wanting to complete the Church’. The notes were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 4 pp.
• Original memorial to Thomas Sexton MP, Lord Mayor of Dublin, requesting that the ‘centenary of Father Theobald Mathew be celebrated in the Irish metropolis by the erection of a public statue of the Apostle of Temperance’. The memorial has circa forty signatories including John Redmond MP (1856-1918), Timothy Daniel O’Sullivan MP (1827-1914), Tim Healy (1855-1931), and Alfred Webb (1834-1908). [c.1889]. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Public letter from the committee for the Father Mathew Centennial Celebration seeking funds for the completion of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew) Memorial Church in Cork. It reads ‘As the most fitting memorial that we could raise, we have selected to complete the Church which he, himself, commenced, but was forced to abandon owing to the advent of the Great Famine. It will cost us close on £7,000. We have already received about £3,000 chiefly from the citizens of Cork and our exiled countrymen in the United States. We are still about £4,000 short of the required amount’. Printed. 2 pp.
• Extracts from contemporary newspapers reflecting on the centenary celebrations of the birth Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Oct. 1890. The file includes extracts from:
'Catholic Times', 17 Oct. 1890
'The Weekly Freeman', 18 Oct. 1890
'Daily Herald', 14 Oct. 1890
'Cork Constitution', 18 Oct. 1890.
Typescript, 5 pp.