A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.
Scale: ¼ inch to 1 foot for plan; 5ft to 1 mile for site map Plan sheet for internal alterations at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to accommodate the novitiate building. Plan by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. The novitiate is situated between the Friary and the Church of St. Francis. Includes plan and sections of bedrooms, the recreation hall and the study hall. With a site map insert showing the Friary bounded by Walkin (Friary) Street and Pennyfeather Lane. Sheet number: LO.14 a/1. See also CA KK/2/4/25.
Architectural plan by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of the proposed extension and new library at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. Plans of the ground, first and second floors are shown. Two copies. See also CA CS/2/6/1/5.
Scale: 32 feet to 1 inch Plan of the Church Street Chapel bordered to the west by ground ‘in the possession of the mortgagors’ and the chapel house and to the east by the chapel yard fronting onto Church Street. The Chapel measures 164 feet by 58 feet. The plan was prepared by Terence O’Reilly & son, solicitors, 5 North Great George’s Street. The map is annotated: ‘The premises proposed to be mortgaged are bounded green’. The plan is also annotated on the reverse with a statement that the plan refers to the ‘Capuchin Loan’ and was sent to Messrs Blount on 22 June 1882.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch Plan by James Finbarre McMullen, architect, of the Assembly Rooms, South Mall, Cork. ‘No. 2 Hall’ on the plan is delineated in colour. The Hall is bordered to the east by Queen Street, to the north by the South Mall, and to the south by Holy Trinity Church. See CA HT/2/3/4.
Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot Plan of the Assembly Rooms fronting onto the South Mall by O’Flynn & Green, 3 Westbourne Villas, Western Road, Cork. The plan shows the ground floor plan of the building, comprising the entrance hall on the South Mall, and the main hall and projection room which is bordered to the east by the ‘Priory Garden’, and to the west by ‘Holy Trinity Church’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/36.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Ground floor plan of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. The project file number is noted as 251: drawing number 11. See section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Plan of renovation work on the main entrance lobby to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. The project file number is noted as 251: drawing number 12. The plan and sections are annotated to indicate the nature of renovation work to be completed. See section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.
Scale: ¼ full size Plan of renovation work on entrance door to St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. A plan and outside and interior elevations are extant on the sheet. The project file numbers are noted as 251: drawing number 13/16. The plan and sections are annotated to indicate the nature of renovation work to be completed. See section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.
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.
