Administration of the goods and estate of Valentine Nelson, victualler, Dorset Street, Dublin. He bequeaths to his sons John, William and Richard his interest in various properties including those situated at 124 Dorset Street and on Quarry Lane and Bow Street. The dwelling house and premises at 124 Dorset Street is left to William and Richard to carry on the family victualing business. He leaves £300 each to his daughters Maria Ann and Ellen. The text is partly illegible.
Lease by Lucas Waring, Hardwick Street, Dublin, and Lisburn, County Antrim, to Thomas Fallon, Aughrim Street, Dublin, of a plot of a ground (and two cottages thereupon) on the west side of Bow Street formerly in the possession of Patrick Warren for 200 years at the yearly rent of £11.
Lease of Rev. John Keir Courtney and Esther Courtney, Dublin, to Thomas Fallon, Aughrim Street, Dublin, of premises on Bow Street (formerly in the possession of Thomas O’Leary) for two hundred years at the yearly rent of £10.
Lease by William John Russell, Mountjoy Square, to Fr. Daniel O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. David Thomas Ashe OSFC, and Fr. Edmund Dillon OSFC, North King Street, of a parcel of ground and shed ‘formerly known as numbers “21” and “22” but now known as number “21” … situated on the east side of Bow Street … [with] the adjoining Chapel Yard’. The term is specified as fifty-nine years and the annual rent is £24 to be paid in two yearly half payments. With a coloured sketch map showing the premises referred to in the lease. The sketch map was complied by C. Carmody, 20 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin. Scale: 20 feet to an inch.
Conveyance of George Walsh to Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and other Capuchin friars, Church Street, of 25 Bow Street, in consideration of the sum of £50. The deed has a small sketch of the properties referred to in lease. Two copies are extant in the file.
Correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Presbytery, Church Street, relating to arrears of an annuity (2s 6d) due from Michael Murphy, a tenant occupying premises on Bow Street. The file includes a certificate from the North Dublin Union Workhouse notifying the friends of Michael Murphy that his remains will be at their disposal on 24 Aug. 1887 and a receipt from Thomas Fitzpatrick and Mary Anne Fitzpatrick for £2 ‘which was the amount due by the Fathers to Mr. Michael Murphy for his holding which is now free forever from rent or charge of any kind. We accept this to bury him and renounce all further claims on the Community’.
Release of Elizabeth Murphy and Mary Anne Murphy to Thomas Murphy of a plot of ground on the west side of Bow Street in the possession of Thomas Fallon.
Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, ‘the sub-lessors’, to John Morgan, North King Street, ‘the sub-lessee’, of the houses known as nos. 56 Brown Street and nos. 43 and 44 Bow Street, for 134 years at the yearly rent of £10 and in consideration of the sum of £212 12s 0d. The deed contains an annexed sketch map depicting the demised premises. Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch.
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.
