Documents relating to an application to the Charitable Commissioners by the FMC Trust. The documents relate to an application by the Trust for a sale of the trustee’s interest in 17 Friary Street located at the junction of Friary Street and Garden Row with the yard at the rear thereof held by the Capuchin Order under a fee farm grant dated 29 Oct. 1898. The file includes: • Draft and copy application forms. • Copy declarations by Fr. Leo Cullen OFM Cap. in which he states that the said property has been in the possession of the Capuchin Order since at least 1912. 26 July 1996; 2 Dec. 1997. • Copy public notices. • Copy of orders from the Charitable Commissioners. • Copy affidavit of Seamus Brennan, solicitor, Abbey Bridge, Dean Street, Kilkenny. 1 Dec. 1999. • Copy statutory acknowledgment and undertaking of the FMC Trust. • Copy memorandum and articles of association of the FMC Trust.
Application forms for the position of caretaker in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The file includes a draft contract and a memorandum on the duties and responsibilities of the position. The memorandum (which was approved by the Hall Committee on 28 June 1926) specified that the caretaker ‘must of necessity be a total abstainer and in person be well groomed and presentable on all public occasions’.
Documents relating to an application to the Commissioners of Charitable Donation and Bequests for Ireland for the appointment of Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap., and Fr. Peter Rodgers OFM Cap. (FMC) as trustees of various properties in Cork. The file includes a statutory declaration to be signed by the Capuchin friars and a copy of the order from the Charitable Commissioners confirming the appointment of the FMC members as trustees. The attached schedule provides particulars of the title to the various premises in Cork held by the Capuchins including Holy Trinity Church, the adjacent Friary and other properties such as Father Mathew Hall, and the friary, school and farm at Rochestown, County Cork (31 Mar. 1987).
Two photocopies of a handwritten letter in Italian from the 'Sacra Congregazione Concistoriale', the Sacred Concistorial Congregation, a predecessor of the Congregation for Bishops, appointing Father Thomas O'Donnell CM rector of All Hallows College. There is also a typewritten transcription of the letter.
A clipping of a report on the appointment of Monsignor Patrick J. O’Donnell, a Waterford-born priest, as Domestic Prelate in New York. The clipping is taken from the ‘Dungarvan Observer’ (26 August 1944). (Volume Page 32).
Letters from solicitors T F O'Connell, Rooney & Company regarding a trust deed of new trustees, and work to be done identifying people involved in the holding of land in different legal documents. A list of such legal documents is included. A selection of names mentioned are: Reverend Thomas Robert Burrowes and his wife; Edward Caulfield; Sidney R Burrowes; Mrs J B Burrowes; Ellershaw and the Vincentians themselves.
Letters from solicitors T F O'Connell, Rooney & Company regarding a trust deed of new trustees, and work to be done identifying people involved in the holding of land in different legal documents.
One of the letters has a list of leases, detailing the names of lessors and lessee, as well as the dates of the leases. The names are Burroughes [Burrowes]; Fitzmaurice; Pilsworth; Father Malachy O'Callaghan CM; Doyle; Malone; and Byrne.
Letters from solicitors T F O'Connell, Rooney & Company regarding finalised trust deed of new trustees and the fact that the counterparts of certain deeds are still missing.
Note stating that, due to the death of the superior (Father Richard O’Halloran CM), the Visitor (Father Henry O’Connor CM) took over the offices of superior.
