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Copy extract from the Register of Freeholders re ‘a right to pass and repass on foot and with horses or other animals … over parts of the lands of Cashelmore and Doocashel Glebe’ in County Donegal. It is noted that the Capuchin friars are the owners of these lands by a deed registered on 14 Jan. 1931.

Copy fee farm grant from Godwin Swift to Samuel Warren of a plot of ground on the west side of Cullenswood Avenue in Ranelagh, Dublin, for an annual farm rent of £100 and in consideration of 5s. The original deed is dated 18 November 1853. This copy is dated c.1908.

Copies (made by Michael Buggy, solicitor) of two fee farm grants by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde to Mary Pape of houses and premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, lately held by Alderman John Pape, deceased, in consideration of £24 13s 4d at the yearly rent of £6 3s 4d (9 Sept. 1705); and in consideration of £81 17s 0d at the yearly rent of £4 with ‘two fatt capons as accates or four shillings sterling per annum in lieu thereof’ (25 Sept. 1705). With a manuscript copy of the deed of 9 Sept. 1705.

Copy Grant of Administration of the estate of the late Luke Murphy, veterinary surgeon, 10 Parkgate Street, Dublin, (d. 6 July 1887), to his widow Margaret Murphy.

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.

Copy lease by Atwell Hayes, Cork, to Christopher Allen, Burgess, Cork, of ‘one field or meadow with a garden thereon situate and being in Friars Walk in the South Liberty of the said City of Cork containing 3 acres 2 roods 6 perches … and also 3 fields part of the lands of Curraconway containing 5 acres and twenty seven perches statue measure’, for 850 years at the yearly rent of £26 2s 4d. An annotation in the margin indicates that the aforementioned lot on Friars Walk was assigned to the Capuchin friars ‘and indemnified by the other lot against a greater rent of £70 10s 0d’.

Copy lease from Charles Dunbar, London, to James Morrison, William Fritton and Ebenezer Morrison, Cork, merchants, of a plot of ground or marsh called Island Nagay adjoining the Corporation Marsh in the south suburbs of city of Cork for 999 years. In consideration of £1,000.

A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Church Street Friary, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, Independent House, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, Rev. John O. Buchmann, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (refers to his sorrow on hearing that O’Hara will be leaving Ireland to take up a new diplomatic appointment in England. Fr. Senan also wrote ‘twenty-six years in an editor’s chair should be a stretch long enough for anyone’, 14/15 June 1954, pp 13-15), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Leo Smith (Dawson Gallery, Dublin), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Thomas MacGreevy, Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Bernard Sheppard, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. The volume includes pasted-in newspaper clippings and postcard prints mainly acquired while Fr. Senan was in England. The postcards include images of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Royal Family, and some views of Stoke-on-Trent.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters / November 1958’. Several of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s desire to expedite his move to Australia. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Kathleen M. Murphy, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Peggy Spillane (gives news of his decision to ‘retire from the Order, devote my remaining years to the writing of books, offer Mass every morning, and live wherever I choose myself’, 3 Dec. 1958), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap (refers to an offer by Archbishop Prendiville of a chaplaincy appointment at a ‘Sisters of Mercy hospital’ in Australia and communications from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re his incardination into the Archdiocese of Perth, 16 Mar. 1959), Bríd Breathnach, L.C.1 Blennerhassett, Fr. Donal O’Connor, Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Anthony Dempsey (Botley, Oxfordshire), Thomas MacGreevy, Monsignor Francis Cremin (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare, refers to his close association for many years with the late Canon Dineen, 7 Apr. 1959), Michael F. Moynihan, Sister Mary de Pazzi, Joan Hammond, Ríona O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Seán O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. James O’Mahony (refers to Fr. Senan’s disinclination to remain in Dublin permanently, January 1959), John Shea (Annascaul, County Kerry), and Michael A. Bowles. A copy letter from Fr. Senan to Archbishop Prendiville affirms that he has ‘an enormous amount of private papers to dispose of’ (March 1959).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters relate to contemporary political events while others refer to financial difficulties with the continued operation of the office (1953). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Áine Ceannt, John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), James M.B. Wright, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Maurice D. Blunden (Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, County Wicklow), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair, includes references to conversations with Éamon de Valera), Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. John Quinlan (Killorglin, County Kerry), John English & Co. (printers), Cormac Breathnach, Margaret Mary Pearse, Hugh O’Hagan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Eric Boden, Robert Monteith, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Seámus Ó Mathúna (Youghal, County Cork), Helena Concannon, Br. Charles A. Lynam (Saint Patrick’s, Montgomery Place, New Rochelle, New York), Adolf Morath (photographer), Paul Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork), Joseph J. Carroll (Whitestone School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Frank Fahy, Doran Hurley, Michael P. Albert (73rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Mildred McTiernan (1741 Newhall Street, San Francisco), John Desmond Sheridan, Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Sister. M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Michael A. Bowles, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Sister M. Teresa Dymphna (Prioress, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Johanna Coakley, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister Joseph Patrick (Sisters of Charity, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Sister M. Vincenzo (Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin), Aileen O’Reilly, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Cathal O’Byrne, Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr, Diarmuid Breathnach, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Robert Brennan, Seamus Murphy, Tom Evans (Evans’ Towers Hotel, Glenbeigh, County Kerry), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), D.L. Kelleher, Leonard J. Schweitzer, Denis Gywnn, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Pádraig De Brún, Michael O’Higgins, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seumas MacManus, Liam Brophy, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vincent O’Connor (231 South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois), Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Mannix Joyce, C.J. Woollen, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), and J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin).