Photocopies of Temperance Reports held in the State Paper Office (now the National Archives of Ireland). The reports are part of the Official Papers Collection (OP/1840/131/10). Police and magistrates in the southern counties of Ireland submitted detailed reports on the progress of the temperance crusade in their districts at the beginning of 1840 in reply to a circular (12 March 1840) from the Chief Inspector of the Constabulary in Dublin. These replies (the Temperance Reports) have survived in the original handwriting of the police officers and magistrates. The counties covered in the reports include Waterford, Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary, Wexford, Cork, Clare and Galway. The file also includes a copy of the ‘Rules of Saint Mary’s Temperance and Mortality Society established July 28th, 1839, in Limerick’. The photocopies were acquired by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. in March 1982. The file also includes notes (compiled by Fr. Nessan) taken from evidence found in the Temperance Reports particularly in respect of the locations visited by Fr. Mathew and the numbers pledged.
Copy undertakings and draft agreements by Thomas Burnell, Carrick Quarry, Edenderry, to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, 49-50 North King Street, Dublin, to deliver stones for the construction of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The undertaking reads: ‘I hereby undertake and agree to supply you for the new Roman Catholic Church now in the course of erection in Church Street, City of Dublin, with the best quality of hammer dressed white limestone …’. A schedule is attached specifying the type and quantity of stones to be provided. With guarantees given to the gentlemen of the building committee.
Copy valuation report for 17 Friary Street, Kilkenny, by Ganly Waters Boyd, 5 William Street, Kilkenny. The report affirms that the vacant property has an open market value of £101,000. With attached copy ordnance survey extract.
Certified copies of the will and probate of James Montgomery Blair, late of Hereford, and latterly of 122 Rue de la Citidelle, Calais. He leaves his all his property to Jeremiah Easter, Belle Vue, Margate, and appoints him as his sole executor. The will was attested, and probate was granted to Jeremiah Easter in the Prerogative Court of Ireland on 14 May 1839. Copies made 24 Mar. 1916.
Copy will and probate of Matthew Murphy, 43 Montpellier Hill, Dublin, veterinary surgeon (d. 15 Nov. 1897). He devises the rents and profits accruing from his various properties (including premises on Bow Street) to his nieces Elizabeth and Mary Anne Murphy. They are to be paid an annuity of £25 per annum. The probate was granted on 4 January 1898. The certified copy of the will and probate were made on 26 August 1904. With a statutory declaration by Matthew Murphy stating that he is the eldest son of Matthew Murphy (d. 15 Nov. 1897) and that his mother (Ellen Murphy) was a daughter of Thomas Fallon (d. 20 Sept. 1871). The declaration is signed 26 August 1904.
Copy will of Robert Warner, 71 Penrose Quay, Cork. Warner bequeaths an annuity of £20 per annum to Eliza Wright Walsh and her sister Mary Anne Margaret Walsh ‘arising and payable out of certain premises situate on Charlotte Quay in the City of Cork held by me under lease bearing the date the 4th of December 1844’. He bequeaths his interest in a dwelling house and shop situated on Penrose Quay, held under lease from Mistress Sarah Deaves, to his son (also Robert) ‘with all the stock fixtures and utensils in trade therein … subject to the express condition that he does not intermarry with Annie Farrell otherwise Boland or any woman professing or being of the Roman Catholic Religion’. Certified copy of the will made by Diarmuid Coffey, Assistant Deputy Keeper, Public Record Office of Ireland, 22 Dec. 1950. The copy will also affirms that Robert Warner died on 20 May 1877 and that the administration of the said will was granted to his son. Probate granted on 4 Feb. 1881.
Copy of an extract of the will of Thomas William Joseph Barry, 8 Queen Street, Cork. He bequeaths to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC all ‘his estate and interest in the house No. 8 Queen Street in which I now reside, and the premises on which has been built Father Mathew Hall free and discharged from the mortgage which now effects said premises’ on condition that one mass shall be said in Holy Trinity Church every week for eighty years. With a rescript for commutation by the Sacred Congregation of this weekly obligation for eighty years to 400 masses as £50 is the maximum value of the house. In Latin and English. See CA HT/2/3/7 and CA HT/2/1/1/26.
A copybook containing Latin translations, extracts, and exercises. The front cover has a manuscript annotation ‘Lain Exercises / Richard Henebry / St. John’s College, Waterford’.
A copybook containing transcriptions of Gaelic texts compiled by Fr. Richard Henebry. The text appears to be a transcription from the British Library Additional Manuscript (15,403) titled ‘Treatise on the virtues of herbs and medals in alphabetical order’. The original text is a vellum MS and was dated by Standish O’Grady to the sixteenth century.
Copybook of William Woodlock, 15 Mountjoy Square, Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the title page gives the date 28 November 1881. The copybook contains various notes from historical texts mostly from a nationalist perspective. Includes extracts from ‘The History of Ireland Ancient and Modern’ by Abbé James MacGeoghegan, and notes from various seventeenth century manuscript collections such as the Carte Papers. The subject headings include ‘The Green Flag’, ‘Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan’, ‘Earl of Clanricarde’, ‘Lord Castlehaven’, ‘Owen Roe O’Neill’ and ‘Redmond O’Hanlon’.
