Copy letter from the Most Rev. Herbert B. Kennedy, Dean of Christ Church, Corrig Castle, Kingstown, County Dublin, to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap. affirming that he pays a yearly rent of £12 5s 5d for two alms houses (formerly called the ‘Munster Arms’) to the Pack Estate. The file includes a letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. stating he is ‘writing to the Rev. Mr. Kennedy saying that at present, owing to the state of affairs, we are not anxious to invest in house property. I take it that owing to the same reason that he is so anxious to part with it’ (11 Jan. 1921). Rev. Kennedy later wrote to Nicholas Shorthall, solicitor, referring to negotiations to sell the head rent on two houses on Walkin Street, which he holds from the Pack estate, and which are currently leased to the Capuchin friars. With income tax demands in respect of said properties.
Design for railings and gate at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The drawing is annotated: ‘Designed and erected by the Rev. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, June 1865’.
The title page reads: ‘The ledger of the Capuchin Convent, Kilkenny, August 6th 1860 and 1861-1880’. The manuscript title is initialled by Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC. Most of the expenditure entries relate to household sundries, wages and expenses incurred for the upkeep of the church and friary. Most of the income derives from monies received at collections at Sunday mass and at vespers. Monthly totals are included. The entry for 14 Aug. 1867 is signed by the Irish Capuchin Commissionary General.
Copy lease from Charles Dunbar, London, to James Morrison, William Fritton and Ebenezer Morrison, Cork, merchants, of a plot of ground or marsh called Island Nagay adjoining the Corporation Marsh in the south suburbs of city of Cork for 999 years. In consideration of £1,000.
Lease of Ann Boyd, widow, Jane Hamilton, Ann Boyd, spinsters, and Henry Lawes Luttrell (1737-1821), 2nd Earl of Carhampton to Mathew Butler of a house with its appurtenances situated on the north side of King Street, Oxmanstown, Dublin, for 999 years at the yearly rent of £44. With a later copy.
