Correspondence, demand statements and certificates for payment of Income Tax and Municipal Rates in respect of properties at 151 Church Street and at 21/28 Bow Street held by the Capuchins. The correspondents include the Collector of Taxes, 22 Bachelor’s Walk, Horace Turpin, land agent for Lord Congleton’s Estate, Maryborough, Queen’s County, and Thomas J. Furlong, solicitor, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin.
Draft agreement of John Maher with Jane Revell regarding his tenancy of houses, yards and plots of ground on the south side of North Brunswick Street for the term of 999 years at the yearly rent of £30. Maher refers to the ‘dilapidated state’ of the premises which are ‘likely to be condemned by the Corporation authorities … and also ‘the falling off of the value of property in this neighbourhood caused by the removal of Smithfield Market’. Two drafts.
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.
A spiral-bound album containing photographic prints (black and white) of existing damage to and remedial renovation work on the roof of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The prints (measuring 21.5 cm 16.5 cm) are numbered and captioned and show detailed and general views of refurbishment work including the installation of new lead works and slate tiles.
Photographic prints (colour) of the demolition of the old Capuchin Friary building on Church Street. The file contains two soft-bound albums (22 cm x 17.5 cm) containing fifteen and twenty-four colour prints of various views of the old friary building, the process of demolition and the construction of the new Friary building on the said site. With 106 loose prints showing various stages of the construction work. The photographs were taken by Fr. Christopher Twomey OFM Cap.
Day account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The volume contains entries for routine household expenses incurred by members of the community. The title page is annotated and reads: ‘Day book, 4 Feb. 1893, Fr. Francis Hayes OSFC, guardian’. Some of the entries are endorsed ‘transferred to ledger’. Many of the entries are also signed by the guardian. The next volume in this sequence is at CA CS/3/1/7.
Account book of the Capuchin community, Church Street, with Daniel Murphy Ltd., wholesaler, 25-6 Mary’s Abbey, Dublin. The entries relate to payments for the supply of foodstuffs (mainly meat, butter, and eggs) to the friars.
Correspondence and notices from Hibernian Insurance, 46-49 Dame Street, Dublin, regarding renewals of insurance policies for St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The file includes two polices for electrical machinery and for the boiler and pressure plants.
