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Programme and schedule for a carol service at Ard Mhuire Friary, Creeslough, County Donegal.

This section includes deeds, leases and other legal documents relating to the title of properties on Carter’s Lane which was located off Bow Street. The documents mostly relate to properties and a dairy yard situated on Carter’s Lane between Bow Street and Smithfield Market. The section also includes the correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC with the Corporation of Dublin regarding a scheme for the improvement of the area around Carter’s Lane.

Photographic prints of Torre Margherita in San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. Three of the prints are annotated on the reverse with details noting that ‘this is the part of the Castle where she lived’.

The documents relate to a dispute in relation to the will (23 May 1885) of the late William Bruton who bequeathed a legacy of £100 to defray the debt incurred in the construction of St. Mary of the Angels. The executors of the will submitted a case to Richard P. Carton, barrister, who advised that the legacy was void as it was made to a religious order. The file includes a case on behalf of Fr. Tommins and Fr. Maher, surviving grantees in the deed of assignment of 9 July 1875 (see CA CS/2/2/1/10). The case was submitted to J.B. Murphy, 6 Mountjoy Square, barrister, for opinion and reads: ‘It is submitted on behalf of querists that the bequest is not to the religious order, but to the Church which belongs, not to the religious order but to the grantees in the said deed who might, should they so desire convey the same, and as a matter of fact did exercise their right’. With copy correspondence between Terence O’Reilly & Sons, solicitors for the Capuchin friars, and Michael Coyle, 1 Capel Street, solicitor for the executors of William Butler. The file also includes a copy extract from the above-noted will made by Michael Coyle, solicitor. The will extract notes that Butler also bequeathed £200 towards defraying the debt due for the building of the Holy Family Church, Aughrim Street, Dublin.