Abstract of title of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC to the premises known as 47-50 North King Street. The abstract provides a summary of the major title deeds and indentures affecting these premises. It commences with a recital of the lease by Frances MacDonnell of 19 Sept. 1862 (CA CS/2/2/4/13) and concludes with a lease by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and others of said properties to John Reilly dated 29 Sept. 1869.
Date: 1877 Author: Fr. Gabriel De Varceno OSFC Publisher: Augustae Taurinorum [Turin], Marietti, Typographus Pontificius et Archiep. Full title: 'Compendium theologiae moralis ex opere morali Scavini, Gury et Charmes. Tomus II. 5th edition'. Language: Latin Series: Part of a two-volume publication
Copy draft lease of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC to Patrick Macken, grocer and wine merchant, of no. 48 North King Street, for 100 years at the yearly rent of £36. An annotation on title page reads: ‘approved of as altered on part of lessors, Terence O’Reilly, 9 Mar. 1874’.
Copy probate and will of William Hogan, Kilkenny city. He bequeaths £20 to Fr. Edward Tommins OSFC and the clergy of the Walkin Street Friary for masses for the repose of his soul. The codicil is dated 19 Feb. 1880 and notes that Hogan died on 27 Jan. 1880. Certified copy by James Poe, District Registrar.
Flier marking the Golden Jubilee of the foundation of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to Holy Trinity Church, Father Mathew Quay, Cork. The flier includes an address from Fr. Finbarr O’Callaghan OSFC (1879-1963), Spiritual Director. It reads: ‘On October 4th, 1866, Father Edward (Tommins) OSFC of Kilkenny – a saintly, simple-souled Capuchin Priest – received to membership of the Third Order, 5 young men, the pioneers of the Congregation. Of these pioneers – some of whom entered the First Order subsequently and are known as Brothers Felix and Joseph. … During the past 50 years the Congregation has steadily developed and today it numbers nearly 1,000 members’.
A history of the Capuchin novitiate in Kilkenny, 1875-77 by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. Referring to the decision to found a novitiate, Fr. Angelus wrote ‘In the month of May 1875 a visitation of the Irish Custody was made by Very Rev. Arsenius, the Provincial of Paris Province. At the conclusion of the visitation he called the Custos [Fr. Patrick O’Reilly OSFC] and his two assistants [Fr. Edward Tommins OSFC and Fr. Aloysius Hennessy OSFC]. They met in our Convent at Dublin on May 25th. At this meeting it was decided to apply to our Superiors General in Rome, for permission to establish a Novitiate for the Irish Custody’. The novitiate was transferred from Kilkenny to Rochestown on 14 Feb. 1877. Fr. Angelus concludes by noting that the ‘account of the Novitiate in Rochestown from 1877 to 1886, when it returned to Kilkenny may be given in another paper’.
Lease by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edwards Tommins OSFC to Thomas Fitzpatrick, 69 North King Street, of ‘that new built dwelling house now known as numbers 48 and 49 North King Street …’, for fifty years at the yearly rent of £50.
List of Capuchin friars buried in Foulkstown Cemetery in Kilkenny. The list was compiled by Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. The list includes names, dates of death and other details (including age) in respect of: Br. Urban Beirne, Cleric Student Fr. Chrysostom Sutton, Master of Novices Fr. Matthew O’Connor, former Provincial Minister Br. Laserian O’Connor Br. Angelus Moore Br. Colman Butler Br. James Kennedy Fr. Bonaventure Murphy Br. Benedict Curran Fr. Seraphin Nesdale Fr. Robert Ratigan References is also made to a monument erected to the memory of Fr. Thomas Murphy OSFC (died 13 June 1817 aged 73 years) and Fr. William Berry OSFC (died 20 Oct. 1822 aged 80 years) and to Fr. Patrick Joseph Mulligan OSFC (died 4 Dec. 1853 aged 74 years), Fr. J.E. Tommins OSFC (died 29 July 1889 aged 78 years) and Br. Edward Foley OSFC, Cleric Novice (died 24 Sept. 1889 aged 16 years).
