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An image of a Capuchin friar sitting on a stone wall along a country road probably near Rochestown in County Cork. The friar in the image is possibly Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC (1870-1957).

A file comprising three glass plates showing various views of Rochestown Capuchin Friary in County Cork.

Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. with an unidentified diocesan cleric (with biretta). The same cleric is present in CA-PH-1-15. The image probably forms part of a series of photographs of a pilgrimage to Lough Derg which includes CA-PH-1-1 and CA-PH-1-15 and CA-PH-1-60.

An unidentified Capuchin friar playing an accordion with a diocesan cleric (with a top hat) playing a flute. Another, partially obscured, friar stands behind them playing violin.

An unidentified bearded individual playing a concertina standing in front of a tapestry. He is wearing a long coat, a cap and has a walking stick. The individual may be a member of lay religious sodality.

An unidentified Capuchin friar playing some form of elaborate wind instrument. The individual appears to be wearing a costume with a necklace (or garland) and headgear.

Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. with pupils at the Capuchin Seraphic School, Rochestown, County Cork. Identifiable individuals include:
Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. College Rector (seated, second row, third from the left). Fr. Augustine was Rector at Rochestown from 1896 to 1907.
Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (1873-1950) (standing adjacent to second row).
Fr. Damascene Kenny OFM Cap. (1873-1913) (standing adjacent to third row).
Patrick Joseph Collins (first row, first on the left). (later Fr. Ignatius Collins, 1885-1961).

A view of the quay at Queenstown, County Cork, in about 1900. The image shows the ‘Flying Fox’, a small paddle steamer and tug, used to ferry passengers and luggage to transatlantic liners before their passage to North America. The ‘Flying Fox’ was later involved in the rescue of survivors from the ‘Lusitania’ following an attack by a German submarine on 7 May 1915. The ‘Flying Fox’ was owned by the Clyde Shipping Company. She was built in 1885 and seems to have spent most of her life in Cork. During the First World War it was requisitioned by the British Admiralty as ‘Flying Fox II’. In 1919, she was sold to the Moville Steamship Company and worked in Lough Foyle until 1927, as the ‘Cragbue’.

A view of a family group comprising three boys and a girl and presumably a mother walking in the woods near Rochestown in County Cork.

‘Paget Prize Plate Co., Ltd., Watford’ box. The box contains a manuscript note which reads: ‘With Fr. Russell’s compliments. Negatives of Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary. Front and back views. Maynooth, 27 Nov. 1913’. The box contains three glass plate negatives. A front and rear view of Thomastown Castle, the childhood home of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856), and a photographic image of a letter from Fr. Mathew.
Thomastown Castle, near Golden in County Tipperary, was a large country house built by the Mathew family. The earliest house on this site was built by George Mathew and dated to c.1670. The house was enlarged in the Gothic style by Francis Mathew, 2nd Earl of Llandaff, in 1812. The renowned Irish architect, Richard Morrison (1767-1849), redesigned the house incorporating several Gothic features including the ornate towers on the front elevation. Thomastown Castle was the childhood home of Fr. Theobold Mathew OSFC who abandoned a life of privilege to become a Capuchin friar. By the late nineteenth century the fortunes of the Mathew family had declined, and Thomastown Castle had fallen into ruins and the estate was completely abandoned. The ‘Fr. Russell’ referred to in the manuscript note in the file is probably Fr. Mathew Russell, editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’.