An account book titled ‘Book of money received or expended in the building of the new church of St. Mary of the Angels’. The book comprises a record of monies collected and expenditure in financing of the construction of the church. Most of the expenditure is recorded as lodgements on account in the Hibernian Bank Ltd. Several annotations are made in the account book. On 7 June it was recorded: ‘N.B. Very Rev. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly and Fr. Joseph Martin Harkins raised in the National [Bank] the sum of £300 for building purposes. This loan was advanced at three months’ payment – in full. A condition I regard as very much disparaging to our credit. Indeed, if I were allowed to act I would close the account in the National’.
Subscription book containing a list of subscribers and guarantors for the fund for paying off the debt incurred on the construction of St. Mary of the Angels. Entries are listed under name, address and amount subscribed. Some entries are listed under the title of: ‘persons visited by Fr. Paul [Neary] and companion for meeting on 27 Feb. 1899’. A newspaper cutting from the 'Freeman’s Journal' [c.8 Mar. 1897] is pasted onto the reverse of the first leaf. The cutting contains a list of contributors towards the aforementioned fund. A monthly mass register record is extant on five pages at the end of the volume. Several manuscript and newspaper cutting inserts have been removed from the volume and placed in CA CS/2/3/7-8.
List of ‘collections for Church Debt, Dublin … V. Rev. Fr. Antony [Travers OSFC], Guardian’. The list includes name, address and amounts subscribed towards the said fund. The contributors include Alderman O’Reilly (£1) and an anonymous ‘friend from Cork’ (£10).
Rental of property held by the Capuchin friars, Church Street, Dublin. The rental contains entries under the headings of denomination; title of owners; head rent; gale days; tenants; tenure of tenants; yearly rents. With two later copies. The rental was compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great George’s Street. The properties listed in the rental are: 47-50 North King Street Premises at the rear of 47 & 48 North King Street Premises on North Brunswick Street 142 Church Street 22 & 23 Bow Street The head rents totalled £107 18s 6½d.
Memorandum possibly compiled by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, Provincial Minister, concerning ‘properties which were purchased or exchanged by the superiors of the Province from time to time’. The schedule refers to transactions involving properties and lands held in Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork and Rochestown.
Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch Sketch map of premises numbered 24 and 25 [Bow Street] demised by Patrick Regan to the Capuchins. (See CA CS/2/2/4/14). Manuscript annotations refer to the mortgages on said premises. The sketch map is drawn onto a printed map of premises in Christ Church Place at the junction of Fishamble Street in Dublin. The reverse is annotated in pencil with a sketch of various premises and plots off Church Street and endorsed with the names of the various owners and lessors.
The item is titled a ‘Rough map of premises on Church Street and Bow Street, Dublin, the property of the Capuchin Fathers’ by John L. Robinson, architect, 198 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. The properties and lots are annotated with information relating to the dates and parties involved in various transactions. The parties included John Jameson, Viscount de Vesci and John Magrane. Information is given in respect of nos. 133-4 and 142 Church Street.
Plan by Charles James McCarthy (1858-1947), architect, 12 Westland Row, Dublin (the son of James Joseph McCarthy, architect of St. Mary of the Angels), titled ‘General plan showing proposed Third Order Chapel, Choir and Additions to Capuchin Convent’. Various annotations have been added to the plan. The proposed Third Order Chapel fronted onto Church Street and was designed ‘to accommodate 300 persons’. The plan also contains a note indicating that ‘sixteen cells are provided on upper floors of proposed additions to convent’. The additions (bordered in red ink) also consist of an entrance hall, a large parlour and two reception rooms. See also CA CS/2/6/2/1.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch Plan and elevation by George Coppinger Ashlin & Thomas Aloysius Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, for the new Sacred Heart Chapel designed for Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, Guardian, Church Street. The Sacred Heart Chapel was an aisle-church addition to St. Mary of the Angels. Construction was begun in March 1908 and was completed a year later at a cost of £4,000. The contractors were W. Connolly & Son and plastering work was completed by John Ryan. The design includes a ground floor plan, a side elevation from the friary garden, a longitudinal section, a front elevation, and a cross section.
This section contains property documents including title deeds, leases, legal correspondence and memoranda relating to the acquisition of properties in Dublin by the Capuchin friars. For the most part, the documents relate to the present-day St. Mary of the Angels Friary located on Church Street. The section also includes legal documents relating to properties located on streets immediately adjoining Church Street (such as Bow Street and North King Street). These documents relate to buildings which were either previously held by the friars (and have since been disposed of), or to properties which continue to be used for various apostolates such as the Capuchin Day Centre located on Bow Street.
