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Bill of costs of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Great Georges’ Street, to the Capuchin friars, Cork, for construction work on Holy Trinity Friary. With a cover note from Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC stating that the bill was presented when Delany ‘had finished the entire convent. On entering into details and then striking a balance [and] alterations being noted Mr. Delany’s bill came down to £1,662’.

Statement of accounts of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Henry Street, Cork, to James Finbarre McMullen, architect, for contract work on Holy Trinity Church, on the adjoining Capuchin Friary, and on 24 South Mall. The costs relate to the addition of an extension to the Church, extensive interior decoration and structural alterations. Detailed summaries of the completed work (with costs) are provided in the statement. With cover letters from John Delaney to McMullen.

Copy newspaper report on the blessing of a new bell, the gift of Humphrey O’Donovan, for Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork. With a note by Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986) regarding the inscription on the said bell.

Memoranda and notes re the Harry Clarke stained glass windows in Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The file includes: a manuscript note by Fr. Martin Hyland OSFC, guardian, re the windows designed for James O’Donovan who donated £700 for their installation; a typescript ‘explanation of the stained glass windows in Holy Trinity by J. Clarke & Sons'; a manuscript note (possibly by Harry Clarke Studios) re a memorial window erected by Cork trade unionists in recognition of Fr. Thomas Dowling in 1918.

Lease by Robert Warner to Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield and others of a piece of ground adjoining Queen Street ‘bounded on the east partly by a store and concerns in the possession of John McNamara, Edward John Gould and Michael McNamara … and to the rear by Mister Dunan’s dwelling house, and on the south by the Chapel of the late Reverend Mister Mathew’, for 750 years at the yearly rent of £40. A sketch map of the premises referred to in the said lease is attached. The map was drawn by Frederick A. Klein, South Mall, Cork. Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch. With a typescript copy by Gregg, Jermyn & Sons, solicitors, and a registered memorial of the said deed dated 22 July 1929.

Leinster Bank Ltd., and Martha Grattan, widow, to Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath (Thomas Hynes) OSFC and Fr. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork, of all the premises and concerns now known as no. 24 South Mall, Cork, demised in a lease dated 28 Feb. 1805. In consideration of £100. With similar assignments of portions of the said premises to Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, hotel keeper, for £285, and to Thomas Joseph Ollivere Esq., Cook Street, Cork, dental surgeon, for £300. With related requisitions on title.

Agreement of Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath Thomas Hynes, OSFC and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork (the vendors), with Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, merchant, for the residue of a term of 800 years granted in a lease from Joseph King to John Reynolds, dated 28 Feb. 1805, at the yearly rent of £34 2s 6d. The agreement is subject to certain legal stipulations and covenants including the requirement to keep the top garret and second floor windows which overlook the ‘recreation gardens of the vendors fitted with muffed and ribbed glass’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/27.

Lease from John Lecky, merchant, Cork, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, ‘Provincial of the Order or Society of Capuchin friars, Cork’, of a plot of ground, stores, linnies, tenements and premises situated on Morrison’s Island (otherwise Island Nagay), parish of Holy Trinity, Cork, for 840 years at the yearly rent of £80. With attached sketch map of the said plot which measured 105 feet at the frontage onto Charlotte Quay; 190 feet fronting onto Queen Street; and bordered to the west (140 feet) and north (93 feet) by His Majesty’s Ordnance Stores. With counterpart.

Lease by Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC, Fr. Louis Pellicetti OSFC and Fr. Bernard Precious OSFC, Catholic clergymen, Queen Street, and Abraham Sutton, White Street, shop owner, to James O’Connell and others of a large room on the ground floor of the premises lately demised by the lessors from Robert Warner (see CA HT/2/1/2/13) ‘now known as the room of the Third Order of St. Francis’, on Charlotte Quay, for 740 years at the yearly rent of £40. A sketch map of the demised premises (measuring 36 feet by 34 feet) is attached. With counterpart lease and fire policy from Atlas Assurance Company, for the trustees of the Third Order of St. Francis, for ‘their Hall consisting of the ground floor only, at the rear of a store on Charlotte Quay … in the sole tenure of the said Society …’. 25 Mar. 1877.

Correspondence with New Ireland Assurance Company Ltd., regarding the construction of a boundary wall between the company office and the Capuchin Friary on Father Mathew Quay, Cork. Correspondents include Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap., Holy Trinity Friary, Little Ó huadhaigh & Proud, 51 Dawson Street, Dublin, solicitors, and J.C. & A. Blake, Marlboro Street, Cork, solicitors. The file includes a draft agreement (7 Nov. 1946) and correspondence relating to legal costs.