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Correspondence, bills, and certificates of account mainly concerning the building of the new library and extension at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. This work was carried by Farmer Brothers, builders and contractors, Nottingham Street, North Strand, Dublin. The total cost as noted in a statement of account dated 5 Aug. 1937 was £11,017 16s 7d. Other projects referred to in the file include work on Oratory windows carried out by Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd., 6-7 North Frederick Street, Dublin (manager, Richard J. King). Other correspondents include John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin; Thomas Higgins & Sons, 11 Usher’s Quay, Dublin; Robert Conway, General Contractor, 13 Upper Buckingham Street, Dublin; E. Fagan & Sons, 11 Red Cow Lane, Smithfield, Dublin; James J. Nolan, General Contractor and Roof Expert, 27 Manor Street, Dublin; P.J. Caffrey, painter, decorator and general contractor, 9 Gray Street, Dublin; Maguire and Gatchell Ltd., 10 Dawson Street, Dublin (heating and plumbing work); T.R. Scott & Co., cabinetmakers and joinery manufacturers, 33 Upper Abbey Street, Dublin.

Correspondence relating to the supply and delivery of index cabinets, drawers, and shelving units for the library of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. The file includes correspondence from Banba Furniture Co., 1-3 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin; Libraco Ltd., Lombard Wall, Woolwich Road, Charlton, London; Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Church Street.

Diary of mass celebrants at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street and at St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street, Dublin.

Register with income derived from community masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The front cover is endorsed: ‘Masses received, to be said in Church’. The first page is signed by Fr. Dominic and reads: ‘Number and amount transferred from old entry book and corresponding to balance specified in ledger (vide), Aug. 15 1886’. The next volume in this sequence is at CA CS/1/1/2/4.

The title page is annotated: ‘Registry of Masses received at the Capuchin Convent, Church Street, Dublin. … Mass Ledger’. The register records monthly income totals received from masses which were also recorded in the Day Book. The entries are periodically by the Provincial Minister at visitations. The final page is annotated: ‘This account book was closed on Sept. 17. Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap.’. The next volume in this sequence is at CA CS/1/1/2/7.

Register with income derived from community masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The front cover is endorsed: ‘Masses said in House, 1900-1917’ with gilt title ‘Cash Book’ to spine. The entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations.

Register with income derived from mass stipends at St. Mary of the Angels. Entries in respect of the number of masses said by the community and monies retained or transferred to the Provincial Curia are also made. The entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations. A typescript memorandum regarding masses said by the Church Street community is pasted onto the reverse of the title page.

Cloth-covered notebook containing a list of masses and retreats undertaken by an unidentified Capuchin friar in Church Street. Figures (possibly attendance) are given for each Mass. Occasional reference is made to attendant events. On 7 Sept. 1913 it was noted that ‘there was an office for the dead in the Church for the people killed by the falling houses in Church Street’. The entries for Easter Week 1916 simply read ‘Rising’, and later ‘in [South Dublin] Union, Rising’.

Lease by Michael Clarke to Mary Kelly, 55 Church Street, of ‘the dwelling house and premises known as no. 141 Church Street … together with the court yard and outer yard attached and belonging and situate, lying and being in the parish of St. Michan and county of the city of Dublin’, for 86 years at the yearly rent of £10 10s and in consideration of the sum £50. With copies of the lease prepared by P.J. Kelly, solicitor, 1 Great Denmark Street, Dublin.