Lease by Margaret Wood, widow, Cork, and Rev. Joshua Browne Ryder, Castlelyons, Cork, to Robert Warner, Cork, master cooper, of a stable, coach house and concerns lately in the possession of William Cash and George Evans situated on Queen Street for 800 years at the yearly rent of £25. With attached sketch map of the demised premises delineated in hand-washed colour. The map was drawn by John Deeble, architect, 13 Cook Street, Cork, and is dated 25 Aug. 1845. With a copy memorial of said lease made by the Assistant Register of Deeds, 9 Dec. 1950.
The deed refers to the foregoing lease dated 1 Sept. 1862 by Robert Warner to Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield and others of a piece of ground adjoining Queen Street. (See CA HT/2/1/1/13). The deed of covenant relates to an undertaking by John McNamara, Edward John Gould and Michael McNamara to maintain, ‘keep or cause to be permanently kept, built and closed up with stone and mortar two windows’ situated on the western side of the aforementioned store. The deed includes a coloured-sketch elevation of the store with the two windows marked in red ink. Scale: 15 feet to 1 inch. The elevation was drawn by Frederick A. Klein, solicitor, 21 South Mall, Cork. With a typescript copy by Guest Lane Williams & Co., solicitors, South Mall, Cork.
Agreement for sale from William Adams, Queen Street, to Fr. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Leonard (Michael) Brophy OSFC and Fr. Fidelis (Michael) Neary OSFC, Holy Trinity Church, Cork, for premises on Queen Street held under a lease dated 1 Jan. 1846 (CA/HT/2/1/1/9) and for a property known as No. 13 Queen Street held under a lease dated 1 Oct. 1887 for 99 years at the yearly rent of £20. The properties were purchased for £840 free from encumbrances. With searches, bills, instructions for counsel, letters from William Guest Lane, solicitor, and an assignment of said leases from Adams to the Capuchin friars dated 29 Mar. 1900.
Mortgage by Thomas William Joseph Barry, 8 Queen Street, Cork, to Mary Fitzgerald, Kinneagh House, Caherciveen, County Kerry, for £700 on premises and on several plots of land in the County and City of Cork. The said plots are outlined in an attached schedule and include a dwelling house and premises at no. 6 Queen Street, Cork, in the occupation of Kate Wideman. The file includes a reconveyance (6 May 1912) by Mary Fitzgerald to Rev. Thomas Matthew O’Connor OSFC of the aforementioned mortgage on the dwelling house at no. 6 Queen Street (now known as no. 8 Queen Street). See also CA HT/2/1/1/31 for the will of above-mentioned Thomas William Joseph Barry in which he bequeaths to Rev. Matthew O’Connor OSFC his interest in the dwelling house at no. 8 Queen Street. 6 Jan. 1908. 8 Queen Street was the site of Father Mathew Hall which opened in 1907.
Particulars and conditions of sale by public auction of the premises known as the Assembly Rooms, South Mall, Cork. The total rateable valuation of the property was £170. The vendors were Charles Henry Jermyn, John B. Jermyn and other trustees of the Cork Protestant Hall and Assembly Rooms Association. Reference is made to a lease of 17 Oct. 1840 from Mary Foott to Elizabeth Georgina Howard; a lease of 19 Sept. 1862 from Robert Warner and others to James Dowman; and to a lease of 1 Jan. 1846 (see CA HT/2/1/1/9). The biddings note that the property was purchased by Fr. Honorius (Francis) O’Neill OFM Cap. for £20,000. With a statutory declaration by Charles H. Jermyn re the tenancy rights of Kathleen Curtin in relation to the aforementioned property (see CA HT/2/1/1/38) 19 June 1967; and draft assignments from the vendors to the Capuchin friars. One of the drafts is annotated on the front cover: ‘Approved 28 May 1967’. Other legal documents in the file related to the said property include: Copy assignment from William James Tomkins to Sir John Scott and others of the aforementioned lease of 17 Oct. 1840 of premises on the south side of the South Mall, Cork. 22 Aug. 1905. Copy made on 2 Aug. 1967. ‘Copy extracts from the minute book of the Protestant Hall and Assembly Rooms, 1892-1967’ referring to the appointment of new trustees and to the sale of the portions of the Hall premises to the adjoining Holy Trinity Church. Copy made on 2 Aug. 1967; Requisitions on title to the Assembly Rooms property, South Mall, Cork. 9 May 1967; Copy probate and will of the aforementioned Charles Jermyn and other trustees of the Protestant Assembly Rooms, Cork. The copies were made by Gregg, Jermyn & Sons, Cork, solicitors, to facilitate the aforementioned auction. The file also includes some correspondence relating to plans for the future use of the Assembly Rooms site by the Capuchins (1974-5). See also CA HT/2/4/11.
A set of three pictorial postcard prints of the Grotto at St. Mary of the Angels, the Calvary outside the church, and a Corpus Christi procession and ceremony at the Grotto. One of the cards has a manuscript annotation: ‘Grotto dismantled and transferred to Priorswood (County Dublin) in the 1990s’.
File compiled by Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, relating to wartime restrictions during ‘The Emergency’. The documents include notices and fliers regarding tea and sugar rationing, a notice to the public regarding the issuing of respirators as an air raid precaution and a public flier concerning the use of a ration book
Letters from the Most Rev. Cornelius Lucey (1902-1982), Bishop of Cork, to the guardians of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The letters concern the appointment of ordinary and extraordinary confessors for convents of religious women and at hospitals in County Cork.
Alphabetical register of the Association of the Honour of the Most Blessed Sacrament attached to Holy Trinity Church. Entries are listed under the name and address of members.
