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List of guardians of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, from 1842-1883 compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. The list includes their dates of office. The file also includes notes by Fr. Angelus re Fr. Edward Tommins OSFC (d. 29 July 1889), Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC (1835-1894) and Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC (1831-1906), guardians from c.1855-68.

The volume contains double entries giving a daily record of ‘mass intentions to be fulfilled’ and ‘mass intentions fulfilled’ at the Friary Church, Kilkenny. The title is given on the first page: ‘1866 Mass Registry, Kilkenny’. The entries are listed under date, the person for whom the mass was said, and the amount of stipend money received. The final page provides a summary of the mass intentions for May 1869 and is signed by Fr. Edward Tommins OSFC, guardian, 2 June 1869.

Day account book of house expenses, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny. The manuscript title is signed by ‘Fr. Edward Tommins OFSC, guardian’. The volume includes accounts for routine household expenses such as foodstuffs, washing, clothing, stationary and newspapers. Other expenses included wages paid to lay staff (cooks, the chapel caretaker and porters). Many of the entries are endorsed ‘transferred to ledger’. See CA KK/3/1/1.

Register of masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The volume also includes occasional lists of mass intentions. The title page contains a manuscript annotation: ‘Missarum Liber Patrum Capuccinorum’. Both the front and end covers are decorated with rough sketches and drawings of crosses with various signatures and other scribbles. A drawing of a cross contains the inscription: ‘In R.I.P. memoriam Hic Jacet [here lies] Revd. James Edward Tommins OSFC (1812-1889)’. One of the other sketches shows a procession and is titled ‘In memoriam, Church Street, Sunday, May 4th 1884’.

The documents relate to a dispute in relation to the will (23 May 1885) of the late William Bruton who bequeathed a legacy of £100 to defray the debt incurred in the construction of St. Mary of the Angels. The executors of the will submitted a case to Richard P. Carton, barrister, who advised that the legacy was void as it was made to a religious order. The file includes a case on behalf of Fr. Tommins and Fr. Maher, surviving grantees in the deed of assignment of 9 July 1875 (see CA CS/2/2/1/10). The case was submitted to J.B. Murphy, 6 Mountjoy Square, barrister, for opinion and reads: ‘It is submitted on behalf of querists that the bequest is not to the religious order, but to the Church which belongs, not to the religious order but to the grantees in the said deed who might, should they so desire convey the same, and as a matter of fact did exercise their right’. With copy correspondence between Terence O’Reilly & Sons, solicitors for the Capuchin friars, and Michael Coyle, 1 Capel Street, solicitor for the executors of William Butler. The file also includes a copy extract from the above-noted will made by Michael Coyle, solicitor. The will extract notes that Butler also bequeathed £200 towards defraying the debt due for the building of the Holy Family Church, Aughrim Street, Dublin.

Declaration of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustus Nangle OSFC regarding title to the plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon the Roman Catholic Church known as St. Mary of the Angels now stands. The file also includes a similar declaration by James Spring, 65 Eccles Street, Dublin, certifying that his father Richard Spring, Fr. Daniel Murray and Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC were assigned the said premises as joint tenants for the residue of the term of 99 years granted in the original lease of 4 Aug. 1826 (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). The declarations refer to an annexed plan with the plot delineated in red and the boundary of St. Mary of the Angels’ Church coloured blue. The plan (22 cm x 24 cm) was drawn by O’Neill & McCarthy, architects, and is endorsed with the signatories of the parties to the declarations. With burial and death certificates for the aforementioned Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC (date of internment: 6 Nov. 1840); Richard Spring (date of death: 19 Jan. 1864); the Most Rev. Daniel Murray, late Archbishop of Dublin (internment: 1 Apr. 1852).

Judgement searches in the Registry of Deeds for acts involving Fathers Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Michael Hennessy OSFC, James E. Tommins OSFC, Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, P.A. Goodwyn Lawless OSFC and Christopher Nangle OSFC affecting a plot of ground on the west side of Church Street, Parish of Saint Michan.

Assignment of Patrick Regan, North King Street, baker and corn merchant, to Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC, Provincial Minister of the Capuchin community, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Vicar of the said community, and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC, who jointly act as trustees for the Church Street community of friars. The deed notes that all the properties and interests of Patrick McDaniel and Richard Lynch as recited in the above-noted leases of 1 Jan. 1796 and 1 Sept. 1829 (See CA CS/2/2/4/2 and CA CS/2/2/4/5) are vested in Patrick Regan who agrees to assign the un-expired residue of the terms of these leases to the Capuchins. In consideration of £350. A portion of this purchase money (£300) is to be paid on the execution of the abstracting deed and the remaining £50 is to be paid within five years. The properties on North King Street are now known as nos. 49 and 50. The assignment also refers to a yard between Patrick Mathews’ holding on North Brunswick Street and the aforementioned Patrick Regan’s holding on North King Street ‘upon which he has erected a bakery and bakehouse ... being the entire premises comprised in an indenture of lease of the 13th day of June 1856’. With copy.

Copy lease of Frances MacDonnell, Bath, Somerset, widow, to Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC, North King Street, of ‘4 houses or tenements with the stables, warehouses and buildings, yards and lands thereunto belonging, and known as nos. 47, 48, 49 and 50 North King Street …’, for 9,000 years at the yearly rent of £77 and in consideration of the sum of £500. 19 Sept. 1862. With drafts and and copies of leases and related solicitors’ correspondence. The file also includes a declaration by Terence O’Reilly affirming that he has been solicitor for the Capuchins for more than 30 years and that the original of the aforementioned lease ‘has gone astray and cannot be found’. O’Reilly also avers that the sum of £200 mentioned in the said lease remains unpaid and that no claim or demand has ever been made by Frances MacDonnell or her representatives. O’Reilly also referred to his clients’ objections to a covenant for re-entry in the draft lease as ‘it would be very hard, if after paying £300 on execution of lease and after expending probably four times the amount in building (as they hope to have a large portion of the Church built before next July), if by any chance they were unable to pay the £200 by July which though not probable is possible, your client should be liberty to re-enter’. 15 Aug. 1862. With solicitor costs to Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC and other Capuchin friars for preparing leases for the said premises on North King Street. 17 Dec. 1869.

Memorandum of agreement between Thomas Douglas Yourell and Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC regarding the furnishing of title to 47 North King Street by Thomas Douglas Yourell and his right to convey the said properties free from encumbrances and freed and discharged from the annuity to Rosetta Yourell referred to in the deed of 21 Mar. 1863 (See CA CS/2/2/4/17). With copy.