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This section contains mainly legal documents including various types of deeds of title including leases, mortgages, wills, property abstracts, searches and financial documents. The section also includes correspondence from solicitors engaged in legal work connected with the conveyance of property. The material is divided into various sections relating to the location of the plots of ground to which the document refers.

Lease by Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford to Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC, ‘Roman Catholic Priest’, of one undivided moiety of a plot of ground on the west side of Church Street, parish of Saint Michan’s, Dublin, ‘formerly in the possession of James Topham and afterwards in the tenancy of Robert Clements, … and whereupon a Roman Catholic chapel is now built …’, for 99 years at the yearly rent of £23 1s 6d. With an identical lease by John Vesey, 2nd Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Delaney of the other moiety of the aforementioned plot of ground on Church Street, for the same term of years and annual rent and subject to the same covenants.

Assignment by Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC to Fr. Daniel Murray, Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC and Richard Spring of moieties of the aforementioned plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built, for the remainder of the 99 years specified in the above-noted lease of 4 Aug. 1826. (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). In consideration of 5s.

Articles of Agreement of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, with Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC relating to the purchase (for £1,000) of premises on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built.

Abstract of title of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, to premises on Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built. The abstract provides a recital of title to this property commencing with the grant of lands by letters patent by King James II to the Most Rev. Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Dublin, on 13 June 1685 (See CA CS/2/2/1/1). The abstract concludes with reference to articles of agreement between the aforementioned William, Earl of Longford and Thomas, Viscount de Vesci (vendors) and Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (purchaser) of 4 May 1869 to sell the above-noted plot of ground subject to a quit rent of 6s 1d a year and for the sum of £1,000. The agreement specifies a number of terms including the furnishing by the vendors of an abstract of title in fee simple to the said premises on Church Street. The abstract should commence with the will of Charles Dunbar (3 Oct. 1778) ‘and the purchaser shall not require any evidence of the seizin or ownership of the said testator but should presume the premises passed under the residuary devise contained in the said will’. Other terms relate to inspection of deeds of title and arrangements regarding the payments of the purchase money. The file also includes copies of many of the deeds referred to in the foregoing abstract:
• Copy will of Charles Dunbar. 3 Oct. 1778.
• Copy memorial of Sir Hugh Dillon Massey and John Dillon to Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci and Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford concerning the assignment of legacies. 14 Feb. 1784.
• Copy declaration of trust between the Honourable Thomas Pakenham, Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci. 25 Apr. 1789.

Letter from to Terence O’Reilly, 5 North Great George’s Street, Dublin, solicitor, returning a draft conveyance and stating that they have no objection to having a covenant reinstated in the matter of a lease by the Right Hon. William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and others of a plot of ground situated on the west side of Church Street.

Conveyance by William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Michael Louis Hennessy OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. Goodwyn Peter A. Lawless OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustine Nangle OSFC, all of North King Street, Dublin, of the aforementioned plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built. The deed is for the absolute sale of the property and the conveyance is forever. In consideration of £1,000. Endorsement on the title page reads: ‘Lodged original as security with Mr. O’Meara, Hibernian Bank, for Father Lawless, 22 April 1876’. The file includes a copy of the conveyance which was probably compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitors, 5 North Great Georges’ Street.

Surrender by James Spring, 65 Eccles Street, Dublin, to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustus Nangle OSFC of a plot ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church (St. Mary of the Angels) now stands. Reference is made to the residue of the term of 99 years granted in the original lease of this plot of ground dating to 4 Aug. 1826

Declaration of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustus Nangle OSFC regarding title to the plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon the Roman Catholic Church known as St. Mary of the Angels now stands. The file also includes a similar declaration by James Spring, 65 Eccles Street, Dublin, certifying that his father Richard Spring, Fr. Daniel Murray and Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC were assigned the said premises as joint tenants for the residue of the term of 99 years granted in the original lease of 4 Aug. 1826 (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). The declarations refer to an annexed plan with the plot delineated in red and the boundary of St. Mary of the Angels’ Church coloured blue. The plan (22 cm x 24 cm) was drawn by O’Neill & McCarthy, architects, and is endorsed with the signatories of the parties to the declarations. With burial and death certificates for the aforementioned Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC (date of internment: 6 Nov. 1840); Richard Spring (date of death: 19 Jan. 1864); the Most Rev. Daniel Murray, late Archbishop of Dublin (internment: 1 Apr. 1852).

Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC and others for preparing a deed of conveyance to vest Church property in nine members of the community as joint tenants and for a power of attorney from Fr. Anthony (John) Travers OSFC (resident in Tasmania) to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OSFC. Total cost: £33 5s 4d. 2 copies. With letters from Thomas J. Furlong to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC referring to a deed executed by Miss Maher on 19 Aug. 1897 conveying the property bequeathed to her following the death of her brother (Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, died 10 Sept. 1894) to the Capuchin community on Church Street.