Minutes of community meeting convened by Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., guardian, concerning the proposed renovations to St. Mary of the Angels and the adjoining Capuchin Friary. The meeting agreed that the re-wiring of the Friary was a priority and should be undertaken immediately. The meeting also declared that ‘work on … providing an Altar facing the people should be undertaken as a matter of urgency’. It was also affirmed that the ‘two side altars be removed and relocated to where the present shrine altars are: Our Lady, first, and St. Francis, second’.
The section includes documents relating to the construction and financing of the new Capuchin Friary building situated adjacent to St. Mary of the Angels on Church Street. Work on the new Friary commenced in November 1999 and was completed in October 2000.
This section includes ledgers and books of account recording income and stipends derived from masses celebrated in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
Register with income derived from community masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The front cover is endorsed: ‘Masses received, to be said in Church’. The first page is signed by Fr. Dominic and reads: ‘Number and amount transferred from old entry book and corresponding to balance specified in ledger (vide), Aug. 15 1886’. The next volume in this sequence is at CA CS/1/1/2/4.
The title page is annotated: ‘Registry of Masses received at the Capuchin Convent, Church Street, Dublin. … Mass Ledger’. The register records monthly income totals received from masses which were also recorded in the Day Book. The entries are periodically by the Provincial Minister at visitations. The final page is annotated: ‘This account book was closed on Sept. 17. Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap.’. The next volume in this sequence is at CA CS/1/1/2/7.
Register with income derived from community masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The front cover is endorsed: ‘Masses said in House, 1900-1917’ with gilt title ‘Cash Book’ to spine. The entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Register with income derived from mass stipends at St. Mary of the Angels. Entries in respect of the number of masses said by the community and monies retained or transferred to the Provincial Curia are also made. The entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations. A typescript memorandum regarding masses said by the Church Street community is pasted onto the reverse of the title page.
Cloth-covered notebook containing a list of masses and retreats undertaken by an unidentified Capuchin friar in Church Street. Figures (possibly attendance) are given for each Mass. Occasional reference is made to attendant events. On 7 Sept. 1913 it was noted that ‘there was an office for the dead in the Church for the people killed by the falling houses in Church Street’. The entries for Easter Week 1916 simply read ‘Rising’, and later ‘in [South Dublin] Union, Rising’.
