Rental and account of Mrs Alicia Louisa Seward. The rental includes entries under the headings of ‘denominations, tenant’s names, gale days, yearly rents, total due, total received, allowances, arrears and observations’. The denominations include premises on Queen Street (a portion of the Assembly Rooms) and on Father Mathew Quay, the latter of which is occupied by the Capuchin friars. The yearly rents amount to £151 5s 6d.
Epitomes and abstracts of several leases of properties on Charlotte Quay and at Rochestown, County Cork, held by the Capuchins. The epitome commences with a summary of the lease by John Lecky to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC of a plot of ground upon which Holy Trinity Church was built (see CA HT/2/1/2/10). With a ‘statement of title of the representatives of the late John Lecky deceased to the plot of ground on Charlotte Quay on which the new Chapel is built’.
Schedules of title deeds and leases of properties held by the Capuchins on Father Mathew Quay and on Father Mathew Street, Cork. The deeds were received from the Official Assignee, Four Courts, Dublin. The lists are titled: lots 1-3, and were compiled by Donal McMenent, solicitor. The numbering system devised for these lists is still present on some of the deeds catalogued in this collection.
Correspondence of John George MacCarthy, solicitor, MP, 70 South Mall, Cork, with Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC regarding the serving of notices to quit on tenants occupying premises on Tory Top Lane, Cork.
Letters regarding negotiations for the purchase by the Capuchin friars of the Seward estate, comprising premises at the rear of the Assembly Rooms extending out to Charlotte Quay and other properties on Queen Street. Correspondents include J.B. Lacy & Sons, agent for Alicia Louisa Seward, 15 South Mall, Cork, and Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. A letter dated 30 June 1930 noted that Ms Seward was prepared to accept an offer of £1,150 for the properties. The sale was eventually realised in 1951. See CA HT/2/1/2/34.
Letter to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. (1890-1969), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Michael Murphy, solicitor, 53 South Mall, Cork, regarding the rent payable on premises on ‘Island Nagay’. Murphy explains that this ‘is a corruption of an old Irish name with which lawyers are familiar in the old deeds they meet, and which I have always found to mean the levelled ground between the two branches of the river, and always close to the south channel, and referring to the area between Parnell Bridge and Parliament Bridge’.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. from Ronan Daly Hayes & Co., solicitors, 12 South Mall, Cork, and from Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap. to Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. re possession of 16 Father Mathew Street.
This sub-series contains plans, drawings and architectural and engineering specifications and blueprints for properties and premises acquired by the Capuchins in Cork.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch Plan by James Finbarre McMullen, architect, of the Assembly Rooms, South Mall, Cork. ‘No. 2 Hall’ on the plan is delineated in colour. The Hall is bordered to the east by Queen Street, to the north by the South Mall, and to the south by Holy Trinity Church. See CA HT/2/3/4.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Plan by J.R. Boyd Barrett, chartered architect, 5 Camden Place, Cork, for various fittings to the sacristy of Holy Trinity Church. Includes plan and cross section of the sacristy, of cupboards and vestment, monstrance and wine drawers.
