Cuttings referring to the notice of the charitable bequest of Elizabeth Mary Walshe, late of Fairview, County Kilkenny, devised by her will dated 21 Sept. 1909. She bequeathed to Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory her property on High Street and Walkin Street, Kilkenny in trust to pay (amongst others) the guardian of the Capuchin Friary £100. She also bequeathed to the guardian ‘the sum of £200 to be expended on the erection of an Altar in the Public Church of that Community in honour of the Blessed Virgin …’. Manuscript annotation reads ‘Received 25 Feb. 1910’.
Demand notices, certificates and notes concerning payment of income tax in respect of properties described in schedules as 8-10 Father Mathew Quay and 16 Queen Street, Cork.
Demand notices, returns, and receipts for payments of Income and Property Taxes relating to 21/28 Bow Street, Dublin. The file includes correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners relating to payments of Estate Duty.
Demand notices and certificates for payment of municipal rates in respect of properties described in schedules as the Presbytery and rooms 8-10 Father Mathew Quay, and on Queen Street, Cork.
Notices of meetings of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee, Church Street. The file includes invitations requesting attendance at annual meetings which were held in the Brigade Hall, Church Street. The notices and resolutions are mainly signed by James J. Darragh, Honorary Secretary, and refer to routine administrative matters including the election of officers, expenditure and accounts, the arrangement of rooms and premises, the repair of the Hall, and various rules and constitutional matters. The file also includes the correspondence of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and James J. Darragh regarding a dispute within the committee regarding an amendment to rule 10 of the constitution which noted that the ‘Brigade shall be governed by the President assisted by a Capuchin Father as Vice President who shall be appointed by the President. … The President alone shall have authority in spiritual matters – the lay members being responsible for the financial affairs’.
Date: 1729 Author: Jean Cabassut (1604-1685) Publisher: Venetiis: Apud Laurentium Basilium Full title: 'Notitia ecclesiastica historiarum, conciliorum & canonum invicem collatorum, veterùmque juxtà, ac recentiorum eclessiae rituum, ab ipsis ecclesiae christianae incunabulis ad nostra usque tempora, secundùm cujusque saeculi seriem, accuratè digesta'. Edition: Ed. quinta ab ipso auctore correcta, plurimum aucta, & quinque indicibus locupletata.
Photographic print of the novitiate building situated adjacent to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. Three (unidentified) friars are seen in the photograph.
A view of O’Brien’s Tower at the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. The structure as built by the local landlord Sir Cornelius O'Brien in 1835 as an observation tower for the hundreds of tourists that visited the cliffs.
