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This section includes deeds, leases and other legal documents relating to the title of properties on Carter’s Lane which was located off Bow Street. The documents mostly relate to properties and a dairy yard situated on Carter’s Lane between Bow Street and Smithfield Market. The section also includes the correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC with the Corporation of Dublin regarding a scheme for the improvement of the area around Carter’s Lane.

A collection of cartes de visite assembled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Cartes de visite were a form of card photograph popular from around 1860 to the early 1900s, typically used for portraiture. The common construction of these cards consisted of a thin albumen print mounted on a thicker card backing and measuring about 10 cm x 6 cm. Albumen prints generally fade with age resulting in a slightly glossy and warm-toned hue. The backs of the cartes were normally printed with the photographer’s name, address and insignia. Most of the cartes in the file were produced by Irish photographic studios, particularly in Dublin and Cork. Only a small number of the prints have identifying annotations.

Photographic prints of Torre Margherita in San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. Three of the prints are annotated on the reverse with details noting that ‘this is the part of the Castle where she lived’.

The documents relate to a dispute in relation to the will (23 May 1885) of the late William Bruton who bequeathed a legacy of £100 to defray the debt incurred in the construction of St. Mary of the Angels. The executors of the will submitted a case to Richard P. Carton, barrister, who advised that the legacy was void as it was made to a religious order. The file includes a case on behalf of Fr. Tommins and Fr. Maher, surviving grantees in the deed of assignment of 9 July 1875 (see CA CS/2/2/1/10). The case was submitted to J.B. Murphy, 6 Mountjoy Square, barrister, for opinion and reads: ‘It is submitted on behalf of querists that the bequest is not to the religious order, but to the Church which belongs, not to the religious order but to the grantees in the said deed who might, should they so desire convey the same, and as a matter of fact did exercise their right’. With copy correspondence between Terence O’Reilly & Sons, solicitors for the Capuchin friars, and Michael Coyle, 1 Capel Street, solicitor for the executors of William Butler. The file also includes a copy extract from the above-noted will made by Michael Coyle, solicitor. The will extract notes that Butler also bequeathed £200 towards defraying the debt due for the building of the Holy Family Church, Aughrim Street, Dublin.

Cash account of James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. Includes references to his salary payments, bank accounts, and rent due on his premises.

A cash account book relating to James Pearse’s ecclesiastical sculpture business in Dublin. An annotation on the title page reads ‘Dublin, November 16th, 1877 / Cash book’. The book provides a record of routine expenditure (including travel and shipping expenses), and entries relating to cash lodged in bank accounts, ‘cash on hand’, and to payments received (particularly from various clerics and religious).

The volume is titled ‘Cash account book of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Convent, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, under the presidency of the Father Guardian, the Very Rev. Albert Mitchell OFSC’. The volume contains monthly debit and credit cash entries. Most of the income is derived from subscriptions, donations, and collections.