The letters relate to the purchase of the ground rent of a property known as ‘Morrissey’s, 17 Friary Street’, from AIB Bank by the FMC Trust for £1,000 and to the proposed purchase of the said premises by Kilkenny Corporation. Correspondents include John Lanigan & Nolan, Abbey Bridge, Dean Street, Kilkenny, Fr. Leo Cullen OFM Cap., the Town Clerk’s Office, Kilkenny Corporation, and the Charitable Commissioners Office. A letter from John Lanigan & Nolan refers to the property as being let to tenants called ‘the Floods … [comprising] two Alms Houses i.e. the old “Munster Arms” at an annual rent of £11.50 due half yearly’.
Copy deed of conveyance from the FMC Trust, c/o Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to Edward and Corann Loughlin, 31 Thorndale Drive, Malahide Road, Artane, Dublin 5, of all premises and property situated at the junction of Friary Street and Garden Row with the yard at the rear thereof held in fee simple and subject to the terms and conditions as set down in the fee farm grant (29 Oct. 1898) from Penelope H. Colles and others to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC at an annual rent of £13 7s 8d. Consideration: £101,000. With draft copies, draft memorandum of agreement, draft conditions of sale and a blank memorial for registering the said deed in the Registry of Deeds.
Deeds, correspondence and related legal documents concerning negotiations for the purchase of premises on Walkin Street (later Friary Street) by the Capuchin Order. The principal vendor and fee farm grant holder was the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson (Church of Ireland Rector of Ballymoney, County Cork). Some of Robinson’s relations also had interests in the properties. The file relates primarily to the protracted negotiations for the purchase, and to efforts to trace title to the properties (Robinson had inherited the fee farm grant of rents accruing from the premises through his mother, Margaret Anne, a daughter of Captain James Montgomery Blair). Reference is also made to various mortgages on the properties and to the original fee farm grant of 1705 made by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde. The Capuchins eventually secured the property in 1919 for £650 (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/13). The final conveyance contained a covenant by the vendor to indemnify the property transferred against all rents accruing out of any other premises which he continued to hold on Walkin Street.
Lease from Frances and Grace Blair, spinsters, Dublin, to Fr. James Lewis O’Reardon and Fr. John Laurence O’Flynn OSFC, Kilkenny, of a gateway and yard formerly held by Humphrey Semple, and a house currently occupied by Thomas Aylwood, situated on Walkin Street, forever at the yearly rent of £6. With a manuscript copy.
Copy mortgage from Charles William West (at the request of Grace and Frances Blair) to Richard Bell Robinson and John Wynne of several houses, hereditaments and premises situated on Walkin Street and Patrick Street, Kilkenny, for £250.
Copy conveyance by Grace and Frances Blair to Richard Bell Robinson of all the right and equity of redemption in houses, tenements, hereditaments and premises situated on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, in consideration of the payment of annual annuity of £20 to Grace and Frances Blair. Robinson to hold said properties forever upon trust to keep said properties in repair, to pay the mortgage interest and also upon trust for Samuel Owen Robinson and Andrew Craig Robinson in equal proportions as tenants in common after the death of the survivor of Grace and Frances Blair. Copy made on c.3 June 1916. It is noted that Grace Blair died on 8 Dec. 1880 and Frances Blair died on 15 Oct. 1884.
Letter from James G. Robertson to Fr. James Edward Tommins, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, granting permission to remove a building which the Capuchins hold from the late Lady Harty. 29 May 1876; Memorandum of agreement (dated 19 May 1896) by James G. Robertson, Merton Cullenswood, County Dublin, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes, Superior, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, and Fr. Matthew O’Connor, for the yearly letting of a dwelling house on Walkin Street at present vacant but formerly in the occupation of Miss Moore at £16 per annum. With an identical agreement (bearing the same date) amended to indicate that Richard Samuel Owen Robinson and Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, 5 Fisher Street, Kinsale, County Cork, are the lessors; Letting agreement (dated 4 Jan. 1900) for the said premises at £16 yearly; Letting agreement to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC of the dwelling house on Walkin Street lately occupied by Mary Stapleton immediately adjoining the Capuchin Friary at the yearly rent of £16. With copy. See also CA KK/2/1/1/1/14.
Ledger of income derived from community masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The front cover is endorsed with the title ‘Mass Ledger’. The ledger records the amount of money (stipends) accruing from ‘masses received as per the large book’ (see CA KK/1/1/3/2) and ‘masses applied or sent away’ (said by the community, said in the [Poor Clare] Convent, and sent to the Provincial Minister. The ledger is periodically signed by the guardian and by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Ledger of monthly income derived from community masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The ledger records the amount of ‘stipends received per large book’ (see CA KK/1/1/3/5) and ‘stipends applied or sent away’ accruing from masses said by the community. The figures include the amount of monies sent to the Provincial Minister. Includes the signature of Fr. Clement of Milwaukee OFM Cap., General Minister, on 17 July 1951.
