Income and expenditure account book for the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. Most of the income was derived from subscriptions (from isolated tertiaries), donations and mass collections. Expenditure entries include accounts for the purchase of devotional manuals, scapulars, and habits for Order members. The accounts were periodically signed by Provincial Ministers at visitations.
A printed address on cloth expressing the gratitude of the members of the Friary Choir in Kilkenny to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC. The address was presented to the friar to mark his departure from Kilkenny after many years. Includes the printed names of Miss A.M. Ryan, organist, and other members of the choir.
Letter from Robert Branigan, secretary, to Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, guardian, forwarding a copy motion from a meeting of the council of the Third Order regarding the erection of ‘a suitable memorial tablet’ in the Church of St. Francis in memory of the lately deceased Fr. Chrysostom Sutton OSFC, formerly spiritual director of the Third Order.
Letter to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. from Fr. Valentine OFM, Franciscan Convent, St. Laurence Street, Drogheda, enclosing a statement regarding Teresa Bradley’s (formerly Gilmartin) membership of the local congregation of the Third Order of St. Francis.
This series comprises records relating to communications mainly from the Catholic Bishops of Ossory and other ecclesiastical authorities in the diocese. It includes letters regarding appointments as confessors and chaplains, the granting of faculties, notices of religious ceremonies and communications from other religious in the locality.
Note from the Most Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Camillus Killian OSFC, guardian, appointing Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OSFC as extraordinary confessor to the Sisters of Mercy at Callan in County Kilkenny
Lists of religious, diocesan, and regular, appointed as additional confessors to convents situated in the Diocese of Ossory. Signed by the Most Rev. Peter Birch, Bishop of Ossory.
Photographic print of the graves of Fr. Martin St. John (d. 6 Oct. 1780) and Fr. Bryan McDonell (d. 3 July 1782) who were buried alongside Fr. Philip Forestall OFM (d. Dec. 1829) in St. John’s Old Churchyard, Dublin Road, Kilkenny. The print is annotated on the reverse in the hand of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.: ‘Graves of two OFM Caps and one OFM in graveyard, St. John’s, Maudlin Street, Kilkenny’. With a plan and notes re said plot by Fr. Angelus. See newspaper cutting re the modern refurbishment of these gravestones ('Kilkenny People', 13 June 2003) at CA KK/11/26.
