Scale: ‘1/8 scale’ Sketch plans (with sections) of proposed schemes for alterations to the sacristy of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny, by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin. The sacristy is bordered by reception rooms, altar servers’ rooms, confessionals and a vestments’ press. See related correspondence at CA KK/2/4/16.
Scale: ‘1/8 inch’. Side elevation of proposed alterations to the exterior of the Church of St. Francis by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin.
Scale: ¼ inch to 1 foot Technical plan for choir room accommodation and ventilation at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. The drawing was supplied to the guardian of the Kilkenny Friary. Sheet number: LO.14 (A). Includes sections and elevations of choir ceiling, installations (kneelers) and second floor plan. It is noted that ‘the treatment of the arms of the Capuchin Order as incorporated in the extract grid is to special detail and template and will be supplied as necessary’.
Flier for collection ‘to defray the expenses of the erection of the cross outside the Friary door’. The collection is to be made among the brothers of the Third Order in the Tertiary Chapel.
Replies to the Ceremony of Visitation by members of the Third Order of St. Francis, Kilkenny. It is noted that the replies to the set questions ‘have the one purpose of enabling the Visitator to judge how the Rule [of St. Francis] is being observed …’. The replies to the twelve questions are answered anonymously. The individual sheets have been bound together with a chord.
Letter from the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the renewal of diocesan faculties for the Capuchin fathers in Kilkenny. Reference is also made to public mass times at the Church of St. Francis.
Letter to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, from the Home Rule Club, John’s Quay, Kilkenny, conveying the organisation’s sympathy on the loss sustained by the Order following the death of Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap. in California.
Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, affirming that it would be advisable to defer the plans for the extension of Friary Church in Kilkenny for the present ‘in view of the recent extension and improvements and the present disturbed conditions of the country’.
Renewal of a lease from Abraham, Richard and Rachel Colles, Millmount, County Kilkenny, grandsons and granddaughter of William Colles, late of Abbeyvale, deceased, to Richard Empson, merchant, of the premises known as the ‘Munster Arms’ on Walkin Street in Kilkenny, in consideration of the fines payable for the addition of two of the three lives referred to in the original lease of 8 Apr. 1769. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/1).
Copy will and probate of Richard Empson, Kilkenny city. He leaves all his freehold and personal property situated in Kilkenny to his wife, Ruth Epsom, subject to several legacies charged upon the said properties for his sons and daughters. It is noted in the will that the house and concerns on Walkin Street are ‘now in the possession of Mr Mathew, Mr Max, Mr Hunt and their tenants’. Ruth Epsom and George Leech are appointed executrix and executor of the will. The probate was granted on 6 Nov. 1820.