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Draft agreement of John Maher with Jane Revell regarding his tenancy of houses, yards and plots of ground on the south side of North Brunswick Street for the term of 999 years at the yearly rent of £30. Maher refers to the ‘dilapidated state’ of the premises which are ‘likely to be condemned by the Corporation authorities … and also ‘the falling off of the value of property in this neighbourhood caused by the removal of Smithfield Market’. Two drafts.

A small album containing photographic negative sheets compiled by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988) mostly relating to the work of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Africa. An annotation on the inside cover reads: ‘Fr. Alfred O’Mahony / Sancta Maria / Mongu / Northern Rhodesia’. The album has a manuscript index to the contents. The album includes images of baptisms, school groups, religious sisters in Lukulu, Sichili, Livingstone and Sawmils in Northern Rhodesia, and in Langa, Athlone and Parow in Cape Town, South Africa. Images of Victoria Falls (1942) and the Zambezi River are also extant in the file. There are also prints of groups of friars in Rochestown College, County Cork (1931-2), and in Knock, County Mayo (1940).

Letters of Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958). The correspondents include: Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Vicar. Most of the correspondence relates to the establishment of missions in South Africa and later in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The subjects include: Fr. Casimir’s first impressions of Cape Province (23 Oct. 1929); the journey to Barotseland (30 May 1930); requesting permission to retain Parow parish (26 Feb. 1931); discussions with Monsignor Bruno Wolnik SJ (1882-1960) to establish a local mission a few miles from Livingstone (16 June 1931); the necessity of wearing a white habit. Fr. Casimir wrote: ‘It is almost impossible to wear brown during the hot weather. The Conventual Fathers at Ndola wear white. The Jesuits wear any old things. I suggest a light cream-coloured habit’ (27 Nov. 1931); the need to speak the language in Barotseland ‘before we can hope to gain the hearts of the natives’. (30 Nov. 1931); on the study of the Lozi language (26 Jan. 1932); suggesting that a foundation be established in Barotseland ‘to which Catholics can look to with pride – a large church and school, sufficient for a fifty-mile area’. (3 May 1932); affirming that ‘mission work in Barotseland is going to be a slow business, the obstacles look insurmountable’. Fr. Casimir added: ‘it is a great consolation to know that it can never become a white man’s country’ (23 May 1932); confirming that the new church at Livingstone will cost £3,500 (6 Sept. 1932); referring to the work of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and his father (30 Oct. 1932); arrangements for the impending visitation by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. (3 Dec. 1934); the activities of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society. (18 Dec. 1934); Fr. Casimir’s arrangements to travel to Ireland via Marseilles on-board the Italian ship, SS 'Giulio Cesare' (5 May 1938). References are also made to the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.; Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. The file includes a letter from Fr. C. C. Martindale SJ to Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. offering to collect £100 for Fr. Casimir’s missionary work in Barotseland (16 June 1931).

Photostat copy of a diary compiled by Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. covering his experiences as a missionary in Northern Rhodesia. Periodic references are made to the extreme distances travelled between the missions and villages (‘returned by canoe down river’), and to accounts of masses said in the bush. Locations are frequently given in longitude and latitude measurements. It is noted that Fr. Timothy left Africa for Ireland on 24 June 1938 (p. 57).

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• Memorandum of Agreement between Presentation Sisters Killarney and John J. O’ Connor, of New Street, Killarney, for the sale of the house occupied by Mr. Timothy Shine, 24 May 1911.
• Bill of Costs from David M. Moriarty, Solicitor, Killarney, 6 February 1909 – 1912.
• Bill of Costs from Francis Henry Downing, Attorney, regarding the Kenmare Estate, 1867 – 1871.
• Bill of Costs, from T.W. & A. Murphy, Solicitors, Stokes against Cronin re house property, April – June 1860.
• Bill of Costs, from Francis Henry Downing, solicitor, the Convent against Edmund Grady, November 1852 – April 1854.
• Common Search Registry Office, against James Reardon, regarding house or tenement, 1835 – 25 March 1846.
• Costs, Chancery, The Ladies of the Presentation Convent, Killarney, with Maurice Quill, Esquire, bill from Francis Henry Downing, 37 North Great Georges Street, Dublin, March 1853 – August 1853.
• Indenture between Thomas Browne Esquire, the Right Honourable Lord Viscount of Kenmare and Daniel Morphy, Copy Case of Twohill’s tenement, 1779.
• Indenture between James Sugrue and Daniel Mahony regarding the tenements, 1848.
• Indenture between Kate Linnegar and Mr. Michael O’ Sullivan, 10 May 1873.
• Indenture between Miss Cherry O’ Sullivan and Mr Jeremiah Clifford [father of Sr Stanislaus (Maggie) Clifford], Assignment of premises in the town of Killarney, 5 December 1883.
• Indenture between Michael McDonagh Esquire, and the Right Reverend Cornelius Egan, Roman Catholic Bishop, Assignment of Policy of Assurance, 28 April 1834.
• Indenture, Deed of Conveyance, between Henry Arthur Herbert, Esquire, Thadee William Murphy, Solicitor, and Richard Linnegan, regarding tenements in Ballalley Lane, in Killarney, 1 October 1860.
• Very old document in a fragile condition. Due to extensive use of sellotape it is very difficult to read. It seems that two indentures and other items have been stuck together. There is mention of Richard Maybury to Edmond Scanlon regarding lease of a tenement and garden forever. John Hamilton and James Mahony are mentioned. Doctor Moylan’s [Bishop Francis Moylan, Bishop of Kerry], name is on this document twice, in connection with Edmond Scanlon and the lease on a tenement, 1786.
• Indenture, Lease Patrick Cronin to Patrick Eagan, 29 May 1812.
• Lease of house or tenement in Killarney for 99 years, Patrick Cronin to John Callaghan.

Includes letter from Sr. M. Anthony Moloney to Fr. Dermot Clifford, Diocesan Secretary concerning the Title Deed of the land, to obtain permission to build a new Primary school; letter from Michael C. Larkin to Sr. M. Anthony Moloney concerning Title to Listowel Convent National School Site; letter from Louis J. Dockery, Chief State Solicitor re: Listowel Convent National School; letter from Sr. Sheila Mary Ryan to Fr. Fleming, Secretary requesting permission to withdraw money from St. Brendan’s Trust; letter from Sr. Mary Ryan to Sr Anthony Moloney giving permission to give land for the extension to the Secondary School and land as a site for the new Primary school; newspaper cutting, ‘New School for Listowel’; letters from Rev. Michael Fleming, Diocesan Secretary to Sr Sheila Mary concerning the Trustees; letter from Máire de Burca, Department of Education; two copies of a Structural Report on the National School by Malachy Walsh and Partners; newspaper cuttings from ‘Kerry’s Eye' September 1990 entitled Two schools share campus at Listowel’; list of Primary School staff; letter from MIchael C. Larkin, Solicitor to Sr Consolata Bracken re School Lease; letter from Michael C. Larkin, Solicitor to Sr Regina O’ Connell at the Property Office concerning the Title and Conveyence; map;
Photocopy of Indenture between St. Brendan’s Trust and the Presentation Sisters; and handwritten notes with points for Meeting on 29 July 2004, concerning the establishment of new Trustee Boards in Primary and Secondary Schools.

Record book chronicling the work of the National Temperance Crusade undertaken by the Capuchin friars at the request of the Irish Catholic bishops. The volume contains brief accounts of the various missions and the numbers who took the pledge in the various dioceses. The volume is paginated, and the information is arranged alphabetically by diocese name. It appears that the volume was left unused as a large portion of the content is left blank. A two-page manuscript insert by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC refers to the origins of the temperance crusade and to the request from the Catholic bishops to the Irish Capuchins to formally begin their temperance missions in October 1905.

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC and other Capuchin friars requesting parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Crossmaglen (Armagh), Carrick-on-Suir (Tipperary), Tullow (Carlow), Foxford (Mayo), Kilkenny, Cookstown (Tyrone), Castledermot (Carlow), Waterford, Belfast and Newport (Mayo).

• Notes re the provenance of temperance medals held in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The text refers to a large gold medal (CA FM RES/9/3/6) with the following engraving on the rim: ‘P.P. Daly took the Total Abstinence Pledge, May 20th 1840’. It is affirmed that this medal was ‘bought from a jeweller, who was going to melt it, for £7’. Reference is also made to a large silver medal presented to the Capuchins by a Miss Gibson from Ballyglass in County Mayo. A cross, also gifted to the Capuchins by Miss Gibson, belonged to the Youghal Roman Catholic Total Abstinence and Religious Society founded on 19 May 1839. Another silver medal has a large green ribbon attached to it and was presented by a Miss Tobin, 13 Killarney Street, Dublin. A smaller silver medal is engraved on the rim: ‘Presented to L.S. Gore Jones by the Rev. T. Mathew’. It was given to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. by Fr. Laurence Kelly, Catholic Curate, St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street, Dublin. [c.1915]. Manuscript and typescript, 8 pp.
• Letters and notes re the provenance of temperance medals sent to the Capuchin friars. One of the letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. refers to a medal gifted by a Mrs Lyons of 29 Clarence Street North. The letter states that ‘it belonged to her father-in-law Maurice Lyons who is dead over 40 years’. The letter is dated 10 Apr. 1938. Another note states that a medal given to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. by a Dr O’Mahony on 30 Aug. 1930 and was found ‘in a secret drawer belonging to his uncle the late Dr Shanahan’. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Newspaper cutting of an article by Michael Kenny titled ‘Discovering the National Museum’, 'Irish Times', 5 April 1981. The article refers to the National Museum’s collection of temperance medals and dies from which the medals were struck. The article reads ‘Given the great numbers enrolled it is hardly surprising that a huge number of medals were struck of widely varying design and legend. A few were struck in gold and silver, but the vast majority in bronze and white metal, particularly the latter. Many contemporary medallists were involved in their production … particularly Isaac Parkes of Dublin …’. With letters to the editor responding to Michael Kenny’s article. 5 Apr. 1981-19 Apr. 1981. Clipping, 5 pp.

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.