A letter from Dermot MacIntyre to Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. referring to the history of the former Stewart-Bam residence in Ards. An extract from the letter reads: 'In regard to Ards and Ards House, I have just found an old notebook of my father’s. He used to jot down bits and pieces on anything to hand and in this old notebook he has an entry dated, Friday, December 30, 1910. He writes: "Was at a dance in Ards House last night given by Sir Pieter Bam. Charlie Coll and I played for them. Bam came in about 9 o’clock. I did not like it all but would rather be in the poorest thatch house in Doe, with the Gaelic sounding round me, than in the midst of it all. Bam does his best to unbend, but it is plainly an effort and he seems to know himself that it won’t be successful. His wife is outrageously proud. She sat all the time like an incarnate goddess and noticed no one. Such pride is a sin against Heaven. You would think the ordinary people were less than dogs to her. Her sister is not one whit better"'. Further extracts from his father’s journal refer to the landlord’s relationships with the workers and tenants on the Ards estate, to the histories of various local churches, to a Feis at Doe Castle in 1910, and to the building of the Lough Swilly railway in Donegal.
Letter from Colette Gallagher to Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, conveying a local tradition re the existence of a ‘half-way house between Ards Friary and Rossnowlagh’.
Cheque payment book of the Capuchin friars, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The book provides details of cheque payments made in respect of wages, household and food expenses, friars’ expenses, masses, electricity and other utilities, medical costs, church repairs and tax. The volume also has several bank reconciliations. Monthly and year summaries of cash expenditure are provided at the end of the volume for the years 1972-77. The next volume in this sequence is at CA HT/3/1/5.
Cheque payment book of the Capuchin friars, Holy Trinity Friary. The book provides details of cheque payments made in respect of wages, household and food expenses, friars’ expenses, masses, electricity and other utilities, medical costs, church repairs and tax. The next volume in this sequence is at CA HT/3/1/14.
Cash receipts book for the Capuchin friars, Holy Trinity Friary. The book provides details of income derived from ministries, mass stipends and collections, alms, bequests, pensions and various donations to the community. Statements of monthly and yearly totals for the years 1972-79 are included at the end of the volume. The next volume in this sequence is at CA HT/3/1/11.
Income and payments day book. The book provides rough accounts of expenditure for various utilities, travel, salaries etc. The income accounts were derived primarily from donations, collections, ministries, missions and retreats.
Weekly receipt and expenditure book for the Capuchin friars, Holy Trinity Friary. The receipts include monies derived from mass stipends, collections and St. Anthony’s Bread offerings. Weekly totals (less salary expenses and other deductions) are provided. The first page notes that on 4 Jan. 1982 the ‘work of restoration and redesign of the Church began’, and that weekly accounts would be provided until this work is completed.
Cheque payment book of for the Capuchin friars, Holy Trinity Friary. The book provides details and accounts of expenditure in respect of wages, utilities, travel, accounts, newspapers, stationary etc. The individual expenses are numbered sequentially for each month.
