List of head rents paid by Capuchin friars, Church Street. The list reads: John Jameson £75 0s 0d John Jameson £13 10s 0d Mrs. K. Pratt and others £25 5 2d Congleton Estate £30 0s 0d Falls Estate £3 0s 0d Cornwall Brady £10 0s 0d More O’Ferrall £51 8s 0d Rent £208 8 0d Rates £101 15 0d With cover endorsed ‘landlords – names of etc’. See also section 3.5 below on Ground Rents.
This section contains a large collection of mostly lease maps relating to properties held or associated with the Capuchin friars of Church Street, Dublin.
Scale: 5 feet to 1 statue mile Ordnance Survey map of Dublin, sheet 13, showing parts of St. Michan’s, St. Paul’s, Grangegorman, St. Audeon’s parishes and parts of Arran Quay, Inns Quay and Usher’s Quay. The map shows the ‘Capuchin Franciscan, RC Chapel’ on Church Street (constructed in 1796), the Bow Street Distillery, and the area surrounding Smithfield Market.
Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch Plan of 141 Church Street drawn by John L. Robinson C.E., architect, 198 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. The plot is bordered to the south by the chapel yard, and Capuchin Church, to the west by Bow Street. and to the east by Church Street. The frontage onto Church Street measures 65 feet. A portion of the premises is colour-washed and is described as the ‘Capuchin Presbytery’.
Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch Plan of numbered premises on Mary’s Lane bordered to the west by Church Street and to the east by George’s Hill. The premises are numbered 13-27 and 41-56 and are intersected by Beresford Street and Greek Street. The plot numbered 43½ is described as an ‘old vegetable market’.
Scale: 88 feet to 1 inch Plan by the City Engineer, Dublin Corporation, relating to the proposed scheme to widen Mary’s Lane and to build artisan’s dwellings. The plan also delineates the ground and plots which will be required by the Corporation for a similar scheme for the New Street and St. Michan’s Street area. The area is demarcated in red ink.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Design by George Coppinger Ashlin & Thomas Aloysius Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, of a proposed lavatory and washroom facilities off the corridor adjoining the Sacred Heart Chapel with St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The design includes a section, plan, and elevation.
Trace map and plan of grounds of adjoining St. Mary of the Angels and the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The map divides the grounds into lots showing the endorsed names of landlords including More O’Ferrall, J. Cunningham and O’Brady. ‘Thunder’s Court’ and ‘Willis Court Yard’ are also marked on the plan. With a cover envelope addressed to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. endorsed: ‘What head rents do you pay and to whom? Name of solicitors?’
Architectural plan by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of the proposed extension and new library at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. Plans of the ground, first and second floors are shown. Two copies. See also CA CS/2/6/1/5.
Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC and other Capuchin friars, Franciscan Capuchin Friary, Church Street, to Robert Kavanagh, grocer, tobacconist and confectioner, of the dwelling house and premises known as no. 151 Church Street, together with a plot of ground upon which nos. 11-15 May Lane formerly stood, for 150 years at the yearly rent of 1s and in consideration of the sum of £300. With a letter from Seán Ó Huadhaigh, solicitor, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., regarding Kavanagh’s lease of 12 May Lane and questions re the title to the premises. 20 Mar. 1969.