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Leases and related legal documents relating to transactions involving a dwelling house and adjoining premises at no. 16 Queen Street, Cork. The file includes:
• Agreement for a lease by Rev. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy, Rev. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Rev. Jarlath Thomas Hynes OSFC and Rev. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, to Samuel Allsopp and Sons Ltd., brewers, for a store situated at no. 16 Queen Street, at the yearly rent of £10. 16 Apr. 1910. With related insurance agreement.
• Lease by Rev. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and others to Jules Brabants and John O’Callaghan, engineers, of a store and premises at no. 16 Queen Street, for 5 years at the yearly rent of £75. 28 Feb. 1920. With counterpart.
• Lease by Rev. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and others, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, to John O’Callaghan, engineer, of the aforementioned premises at no. 16 Queen Street, for 10 years at the yearly rent of £75. 1 July 1924. With counterpart.
• Revisionary lease by Rev. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC and Rev. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Charlotte Quay, Cork, to John O’Callaghan, engineer, of the aforementioned premises at no. 16 Queen Street, for 14 years at the yearly rent of £75. 1 Mar. 1929. With counterpart.
• Assignment by John O’Callaghan to Jules Brabants, engineer, Grand Parade, Cork, of the lease of the aforementioned premises at no. 16 Queen Street in consideration of £300. 25 Mar. 1929.
• Lease by Rev. Justin Hyland OSFC, Rev. Flannan Downing OSFC and Rev. Mel Farrell OSFC to Macroom Dairies Ltd., of the stores and premises at no. 16 Queen Street, for 5 years at a yearly rent of £75. 5 Apr. 1946. With draft copy.
• Copy memorial of an assignment by Macroom Diaries Ltd., to Sales Ltd., of the premises at no. 16 Queen Street, for £400. 12 Oct. 1953.

Agreement of Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath Thomas Hynes, OSFC and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork (the vendors), with Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, merchant, for the residue of a term of 800 years granted in a lease from Joseph King to John Reynolds, dated 28 Feb. 1805, at the yearly rent of £34 2s 6d. The agreement is subject to certain legal stipulations and covenants including the requirement to keep the top garret and second floor windows which overlook the ‘recreation gardens of the vendors fitted with muffed and ribbed glass’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/27.

Conveyance of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and other Capuchin friars, of premises on Church Street and Bow Street (including Father Mathew Hall).

Conveyance (dated 21 Jan. 1919) from Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, Ballymoney Rectory, Ballineen, County Cork, and Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson, Ballintemple Stanley Park Road, Surrey, to Rev. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Church Street, Rev. Thomas (Matthew) O’Connor OSFC, Holy Trinity Church, Cork, and other Capuchin friars of a portion of premises on Walkin Street, Parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny, situated ‘on the same side of the Capuchin Friary (being on the south east side) … being the entire portion of the hereditaments and premises granted in two fee farm grants of 9 Sept. 1705 and 25 Sept. 1705 from Lord Ormonde [James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde] to Mary Pape now held by the vendors, and which are occupied by John Slater and Patrick Reilly, tenants to the purchasers. The deed notes that the Capuchin friars are to hold the said premises in fee simple free from any encumbrances save the head rent payable (£10 9s 9d) under the aforementioned fee farm grants for which a clause of indemnity is included in the conveyance. The deed includes schedules and a coloured map (scale: 1 inch to 50 feet) of the premises. The schedule attached to the map lists the tenants holding numbered plots on the property. With numerous drafts (many of which are endorsed by either counsel or solicitor), memoranda of agreement, memorials, additional endorsements, and typescript copies of the conveyance.

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.

Transcripts and notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from mass registers of the Cork community. The notes mainly refer to personnel matters giving the names of community members, the dates of transfers, details of chapter meetings and the appointment of guardians. The title page reads: ‘This book contains notes made from an examination of the mass register of the Cork house. I mean the register signed by the Fathers of the masses discharged by the community. The examination extended over the books from 1889 to December 1914, a period of 25 years. It gives the names of the different Fathers in the community, superiors, dates of visitations and transfers from the community. I also examined house books from July 1883 to April 1885 to 1887 during which Fr. Englebert of Huissen OSFC was guardian. He used a special ledger of his own, as appears from an entry made by Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC who succeeded him in office’.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St. Francis Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, referring to his declining condition. He wrote ‘I’m so weak and in such a serious condition that I know not if I shall be alive to-morrow’. He declared that he has renewed his profession ‘surrounded by the Franciscan Sisters here and Fr. Dillon, a devoted Kerry friend’. Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. died two days later on 14 Feb. 1925. With cover.