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Orders and lists of mass sermons preached by priests at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries are listed under date (usually at Lent, Easter and other religious feast days) and the name of the celebrant. It is noted in the 1903 list that the maximum duration of sermons at mass is twenty minutes. One of the lists is titled ‘Lenten discourses’.

The subseries contains letters to Capuchin friars in Kilkenny concerning missions, retreats, the appointment of confessors and notices of jubilees, anniversaries and deaths. Many of the letters are from the Provincial Minster to the guardians of the Friary and relate to the internal administration of the Order. The section includes a large register book (CA KK/1/3/1) which contains copies of numerous circular letters and memoranda from Ministers General and Provincial Ministers.

Letters from [Madge Auld?], St. Andrew’s, Queen’s Crescent, Southsea, Hampshire, to Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (1820-1887), referring to a sum of £300 left in trust with Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC ‘to build a chapel [in Kilkenny] where the Third Order Sisters would meet and masses be said for me and mine’. An annotation notes that these letters were from the ‘late Mrs Sullivan of Lacken, Kilkenny’.

Letter to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, referring to the recent National Temperance Congress. The letter affirms that the ‘most efficient way of reaping the fruits of the Congress is by the formation in this city without further delay … of a branch of the “Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association” similar to those established in in the other centres throughout Ireland …’. The letter is signed by Robert Branigan, Thomas Cantwell JP, Thomas Hayden and William J. Cleere. The letter encloses a list of 107 names (with address) in support of the foundation of the aforementioned branch.

Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, referring to a request from Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. for some items which he requires for the missions.

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 two sub-series relating to the location of the plots of ground to which the document refers: Walkin Street (later Friary Street) and Pennyfeather Lane.

Copy assignment from Rev. John Empson, Montreal, British America, formerly a civil engineer, to Joseph Empson Esq., Parliament Street, Kilkenny city, of an annuity of £12 12s payable out of the annual rents and profits of certain lands referred to in the assignment of 14 Dec. 1864 (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/7). With the consent of Arthur Joshua Boyd, solicitor, and trustee. The assignment has the same attached schedule as appears in CA KK/2/1/1/1/7.

Search in the Registry of Deeds for acts affecting the house and concerns on Walkin Street, Kilkenny city, commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’ under the names of Margaret Empson and Joseph Empson between 22 Mar. 1859 and 2 May 1895.

Copy writ of summons from Nicholas Shorthal, solicitor, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC to appear at the High Court of Justice (Probate and Matrimonial Division) in relation to a case of Peter Jackman, plaintiff, versus Charles and Catherine Dunphy, Rev. William Cassin, and Patrick Egan, defendants. The case involves a dispute about the will of John Jackman, late of King Street, Kilkenny (died 28 July 1895).

Deeds relating to the letting of 47 Walkin Street by members of the Slater family. The file includes: Letting agreement from Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC and Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC to John Slater of a dwelling currently vacant but lately held by Miss Moore on Walkin Street at the yearly rent of £16 (20 May 1896); Administration (9 May 1950) of the will of John Slater (d. 5 Aug. 1945); Assignment from Annie Slater to her grandson John Slater of her interest in 47 Walkin Street which she holds as a yearly tenant from the Capuchin Friars at the annual rent of £16 (18 Oct. 1950); Search in the Registry of Deeds for documents of title relating to John Slater affecting properties on Walkin Street (3 Feb. 1953); Assignment of John Slater to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OFM Cap. and others of 47 Walkin Street in consideration of £400 (7 Feb. 1953). With copies.