Epitome of deeds and leases relating to properties held by the Capuchins in Cork. The epitome commences with an abstract of a lease by John Lecky to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 2 Nov. 1832 (CA HT/2/1/2/10) and concludes with a summary of an assignment by Fr. Cherubim Mazzini OSFC and others to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC and others of all interest and claims on premises on Charlotte Quay and on Queen Street dated 8 Mar. 1875 (see CA HT/2/1/2/13). The volume also includes transcripts and notes taken from the ‘old account book of the Cork Friary’, covering the personnel, governance and history of the Order in Ireland (specifically in Cork) from 1836 to 1859. The original volume is extant at CA HT/3/1/1.
Receipts for rent payable out of 26 Cook Street, Cork, from Fr. Thomas O’Callaghan to Walter Thornhill & Sons, estate & insurance agency, 46 South Mall, Cork.
Letters to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Robert McClement, auditor, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, concerning income tax deductions from rents paid by the Capuchin friars and fees connected with his work for the Order in filing charitable exemption claims.
Letter to Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (1898-1945), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, regarding a claim for a reduction of rent from Brabants Ltd. who hold property from the Capuchin friars on Queen Street, and to the rents due from the Electrification Radio Company.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch; 1/8 inch to 1 foot Plans by Charles McCarthy & Son, Emmet Place, Cork, Richard Hennessy & Sons, engineers and contractors, 61 Grand Parade, Cork, and Thomas H.M. Wain, 15 Cook Street, consulting engineer, Cork. They show heating and piping installations for the ground, first and second floors of the Holy Trinity Friary and Church, Cork. For documentation relating to this building work see CA HT/2/5/22.
‘Return showing the names of persons subscribing towards the repairs of the above-named Church and Convent’ (Cork: Flynn & Company, printers, 66 George’s Street, Cork). A printed appeal on the inside front cover refers to the need for funds to execute the necessary buildings and repairs as ‘with the approach of winter, the Community find themselves literally "without a roof over their heads"’. The account book is incomplete and relates only to the Coburg Street districts. Entries are listed under names, residences and amount of weekly subscriptions. The remainder of the volume contains a history of the vicissitudes of the Irish Capuchins in the late nineteenth century. Includes short biographical notes on Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC (Vice-Provincial and later Commissary General), Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (a Capuchin friar from Lyons, France, who was Commissary General of the Cork and Rochestown houses) and Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (first Provincial Minister of the reconstituted Irish Capuchin Province in 1885).
Copy articles from the 'Cork Daily Herald' and 'Cork Examiner' referring to the architectural style and construction of the new Capuchin Friary adjoining Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork.
Bill and certificate of costs to James Finbarre McMullen (c.1909-1957), 30 South Mall, Cork, and Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, for contract work by J.A. O’Connell & Sons, sculptors, and Bartholomew Barry, builder, in ‘erecting an Altar, marble rails and floor at the shrine of St. Anne in Father Mathew Church, Cork’, and for work on the new addition to the side of the Church leading to the vestry room.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from J. Isaac & Sons, organ builders, Elm Park, Blackpool, Cork; Lawrence Isaac, 20 Forster Street, Galway; Evans & Barr Ltd., Coolbeg Street, Belfast, and others regarding quotations, specifications and costs for the installation of an organ at Holy Trinity Church. With invoices and receipts for payment of shipping costs and work on the new organ.
Account book for payments to a fund for the renovation of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, from Nov. 1970-Mar. 1972. Entries are listed under the headings of date, name of benefactor or payee and amount subscribed. Many of the benefactors are listed as anonymous. The first two folio pages of the volume may have been used as a cheque payments’ register (from 12 May 1970-5 Aug. 1970).
