Requisitions on title on behalf of the trustees of the Cork Assembly Rooms relating to rents payable under the lease of certain premises on Queen Street dated 1 Jan. 1846 (see CA HT/2/1/1/9). The requisitions also ask for negative searches in the Registry of Deeds against Fr. Thomas Matthew O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Michael Leonard Brophy OSFC and Fr. Michael Fidelis Neary OSFC. Prepared by Gregg, Jermyn & Sons, solicitors, Cork.
Tenancy agreements by Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and others for the letting of portions of no. 24 South Mall, Cork, to Nellie Gormley, 37 Grand Parade, Cork, at the yearly rent of £50, and to Adolph M. Sandler, Great George’s Street, Cork, at the monthly rent of £2 18s 4d.
Agreement by Crosse and Blackwell Ltd., with Rev. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC, Rev. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Rev. Jarlath (Thomas) Hynes OSFC and Rev. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC to take down a wall and construct windows at the rear of a premises occupied by Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork.
Letting agreement of Fr. Honorius O’Neill OFM Cap. with Cross Refrigeration for a lease of a portion of the premises known as the Assembly Rooms, 22 South Mall, Cork, for a year at the rent of £75; and with the Cork Gas Company for a portion of the same property at the monthly rent of £26. It is noted that the Cork Gas Company will let the property until such time as the construction of their new store and offices at Charlotte House on Father Mathew Quay is completed.
Copy memorial of an assignment from Bryan Sheehy and others, assignees of the estate of Paul Benson, merchant, to Charles Ferguson, of the residue of a lease of 900 years held by Benson from Ebenezer Morrison (dated 6 May 1776) of premises on Morrison’s Island at the yearly rent of £54.
Copy will of Ebenezer Morrison of the city of Cork, extracted from the Registry of the Diocese of Cork and Ross. He bequeaths to Rev. Archdeacon Corker and Robert Rogers his interest ‘in the marsh called Island Nagay otherwise Morrison’s Island held under a lease made by Charles Dunbarr, and also in the Marsh thereunto joining held under a lease made by Nathaniel Lavite, deceased, … situate in the south suburbs of the city of Cork’ in trust for his daughter Margaret Morrison.
Copy will and last testament of Susanna Mee, Templeville, County Cork. She bequeaths all her rights, title and interest to several premises on Morrison’s Island (otherwise known as Island Nagay) tenanted by her nephew, John Lecky, and Michael Wood, and premises on Queen Street (demised to George Cotter) for the sole benefit of the aforementioned John Lecky subject to £1,000, the interest to be paid to her sister, Margaret Lecky, for life.
Copy lease of Robert Warner, Penrose Quay, Cork, shopkeeper, to Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC, Fr. Louis Pellicetti OSFC and Fr. Bernard Precious OSFC, Catholic clergymen, Queen Street, of stores, premises and concerns lately in the possession of the lessor ‘but now in the tenancy of the said lessees’, on Charlotte Quay for 750 years at the yearly rent of £120. With a map showing the demised premises measuring 136 feet 6 inches by 64 feet 3 inches. The original lease is endorsed on the cover: ‘Property west of the Church’. With three copy leases compiled by JC & A. Blake, solicitors, dated 24 May 1950. With a copy memorial of said lease compiled by the Assistant Register of Deeds dated 27 July 1929.
Assignment from Lady Elizabeth Barbara Travers, widow and residuary legatee of Sir William Saint Lawrence Travers, to Francis Elias MacNamara, South Terrace, Cork, of the residue of a lease dated Oct. 1781 from Benjamin Whitestone to William Clark of a cellar, yards and stores on Charlotte Quay, in consideration of £475. Endorsed on the final page with a declaration from MacNamara and Nicholas Daniel Murphy stating that the aforementioned sum of £475 was the ‘proper money’ of the Munster Bank Limited and that former was merely acting as a trustee for the said bank in the aforementioned deed of assignment. 21 Apr. 1879.