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A Capuchin chapel has stood on Church Street from at least 1720. The present-day Church of St. Mary of the Angels was designed James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) in a decorated Gothic style. McCarthy was also responsible for St. Saviour’s Dominican Church on Dominick Street in Dublin (also constructed in the fourteenth-century Gothic style), Mount Argus Church in Dublin, Maynooth College Chapel, and parish churches in Celbridge and Kilcock in County Kildare. The foundation stone for St. Mary of the Angels was laid by the Most Rev. Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, on 12 June 1868. The sermon for the occasion was preached by the celebrated Dominican preacher, Fr. T.A. Burke OP (1830-1883). The building was constructed under the supervision of the architect and was completed in 1881. The builders were Hammond of Drogheda. Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (1831-1894) was responsible for the raising of funds for the church’s construction and adornment. Two side-altars, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to St. Francis, were installed in 1876. They were the work of Farrell and Sons of North Gloucester Street Lower (now Seán McDermott Street). Their most famous works in Dublin are the monuments to Archbishop John Troy and Cardinal Cullen in the Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street, and the statues of Sir John Grey and William Smith O’Brien on O’Connell Street. This section includes records relating to the construction and maintenance of the Sacred Heart Chapel which was built as an aisle church in 1908-9. This chapel was later enclosed and converted into a large sacristy.

This section contains a large collection of mostly lease maps relating to properties held or associated with the Capuchin friars of Church Street, Dublin.

On the evening of 2 September 1913 two overcrowded tenement buildings at 66 and 67 Church Street collapsed. The two buildings were situated opposite the Capuchin Friary on the street. Of those trapped in the buildings, seven died (including three children) and many others were left seriously injured. Over 100 people were left homeless and destitute. The tragedy, occurring at a time of heightened political and labour unrest, highlighted the dreadful conditions of many of the buildings in Dublin, both in terms of the physical fabric of the dwellings and the endemic overcrowding in inner city tenements. A report on the disaster was presented to the British Parliament in February 1914, but with the outbreak of war in the summer of that year housing conditions in Irish capital ceased to be a political priority.

Sub- series contains account books and balance sheets documenting income and expenditure for Presentation Convent Killarney.

 Black hard covered notebook giving details of salaries and pensions 1956 – 1974.

 Receipt book with details of rent received from house property, salaries, pensions, shares, music fees, sale of lace and grants, 1914 – 1974. Rent book – rent account, names, and addresses of tenants and amounts paid, 1913 – 1924.

 Ledger containing handwritten accounts of the income and expenditure for Presentation Convent Killarney, 1881 – 1941.

 Ledger – Summary of the Revenue Account for each year showing the total income and expenditure, 1941 – 1976. Ledger recording details of the monthly expenses, 1857 – 1881.

 Ledger recording totals of weekly income and expenditure of the convent, 1912 – 1921.

 Ledger recording income and expenditure, 1911 – 1914.

 Ledger containing information about rent, rates and income tax on the tenements in Old Market Lane, New Street and East Avenue and house property including the names of the tenants, 1858 – 1905.

Income Tax Schedules related to tenants and House property, Opinion of Counsel on case submitted to him with reference to income Tax assessed on the Presentation Convent Killarney, Bill of Costs from David M. Moriarty, Solicitor, Killarney and document entitled, “Income derived from Dividends, Interests, etc.”

This sub-series includes correspondence between the Irish Capuchin Provincial Minister and the Capuchin General Curia in Rome re missionary activity in Africa.