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Correspondence relating to the transfer of properties on Church Street (nos. 155-157) to lay trustees of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade. Correspondents include, Thomas J. Furlong, solicitor, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin, Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minister, William Mooney & Son, solicitors, 16 Fleet Street, Dublin, Michael Murphy, solicitor, 44 South Mall, Cork, and John Jameson, Bow Street Distillery, Dublin. Most of the correspondence relates to instructions to be given to solicitors with respect to the drawing up of a conveyance for the above-mentioned properties and to the need for approval of the deed which allows Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC to retire from their trusteeship. John Jameson assured Fr. Fiacre that ‘this company would be very reluctant to put up a building that would be objectionable to your community. … I thought there was no likelihood of the neighbourly relations which have always existed between this company and yourselves being interrupted’. On 20 Dec. 1904 Fr. Paul Neary OSFC stated that the ‘members of our Order who are trustees of the Church Street premises of the Boys’ Brigade have no desire to continue their trusteeship and are willing to hand it to any persons to whom they can do so, without breach of their trust’.

Letter from M. Mahony, St. Helen’s, Blarney, County Cork, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (1871-1926), referring to the recent death of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904).

Confirmation from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, Provincial Minister, of the appointment of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC as Vicar of Holy Trinity Friary.

Leases and related legal documents relating to transactions involving a dwelling house and adjoining premises at 6 Queen Street, Cork. The file includes:
• Lease from Edward Robinson, the city of Cork, attorney at law, to John Henry Gamble, of the aforementioned premises on Queen Street for 500 years at the yearly rent of £45. 28 July 1845. With counterpart.
• Conveyance from the Encumbered Estate Commissioners to Robert Hall, merchant, of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street, in consideration of £250. 15 Nov. 1850.
• Lease by William Wise, Woolston House, North Cadbury, Bath, and Hugh Stanley Wise, Newton Abbott, Devon, to Thomas William Joseph Barry, hotel proprietor, Cork, of the said premises at No. 6 Queen Street, Cork, for 199 years at the yearly rent of £21. 27 Nov. 1890. With counterpart. See also CA HT/2/1/1/26.
• Conveyance by William Wise and Hugh Stanley Wise to Edwin Hall, Blackrock, County Cork, of the lessee’s interest of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street in consideration of 10s. 24 Sept. 1894.
• Assignment by William Ringrose Atkins, chartered accountant, South Mall, Cork, and John Tweedy, solicitor, College Green, Dublin to William Carroll, Anglesea Street, Cork, of the residue of the unexpired lease of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street in consideration of £205. 23 Dec. 1904.
• Assignment by William Carroll, Anglesea Street, Cork, to Rev. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and Rev. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Rev. Jarlath (Thomas) Hynes OSFC and Rev. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, County of Cork, of the residue of the unexpired lease of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street in consideration of £550.
The original lease of these premises (dated 19 July 1773) is at
CA HT/2/1/2/2.

Leinster Bank Ltd., and Martha Grattan, widow, to Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath (Thomas Hynes) OSFC and Fr. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork, of all the premises and concerns now known as no. 24 South Mall, Cork, demised in a lease dated 28 Feb. 1805. In consideration of £100. With similar assignments of portions of the said premises to Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, hotel keeper, for £285, and to Thomas Joseph Ollivere Esq., Cook Street, Cork, dental surgeon, for £300. With related requisitions on title.

Agreement of Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath Thomas Hynes, OSFC and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork (the vendors), with Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, merchant, for the residue of a term of 800 years granted in a lease from Joseph King to John Reynolds, dated 28 Feb. 1805, at the yearly rent of £34 2s 6d. The agreement is subject to certain legal stipulations and covenants including the requirement to keep the top garret and second floor windows which overlook the ‘recreation gardens of the vendors fitted with muffed and ribbed glass’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/27.

Policy of fire insurance from the Law Union & Crown Insurance Company, 126 Chancery Lane, London, with Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC, Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, covering 24 South Mall, Cork, for £800.

Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Bartholomew (Fiacre) Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas (Maurice) Murphy OSFC, Church Street, to Bernard O’Reilly, dairyman, of the aforementioned old dwelling house and dairy yard situated on the north side of Carter’s Lane off Smithfield for 999 years in consideration of £182 and at the yearly rent of 1s. One of the covenants attached to the lease specifies that the lessee ‘will not use the said premises or permit the same to be used as an appurtenant to any of the purposes of a brewer, distiller, malt house or storage for the sale of intoxicating liquors or for any asylum hospital or other institution for any offensive, noisy or dangerous trade, business, manufacture or occupation of any nuisance …’. With a draft of the lease prepared by T.J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin. The file also includes a letter from Bernard O’Reilly to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC on the subject of the said lease (1 Sept. 1914).

Letters for Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and Fr. Edward Walsh OSFC, guardians, from the Irish Catholic Church Property Insurance Company, 11-12 Fleet Street, Dublin, regarding yearly payments for renewal premiums on fire insurance policies.