Particulars and conditions of sale by public auction of the premises known as the Assembly Rooms, South Mall, Cork. The total rateable valuation of the property was £170. The vendors were Charles Henry Jermyn, John B. Jermyn and other trustees of the Cork Protestant Hall and Assembly Rooms Association. Reference is made to a lease of 17 Oct. 1840 from Mary Foott to Elizabeth Georgina Howard; a lease of 19 Sept. 1862 from Robert Warner and others to James Dowman; and to a lease of 1 Jan. 1846 (see CA HT/2/1/1/9). The biddings note that the property was purchased by Fr. Honorius (Francis) O’Neill OFM Cap. for £20,000. With a statutory declaration by Charles H. Jermyn re the tenancy rights of Kathleen Curtin in relation to the aforementioned property (see CA HT/2/1/1/38) 19 June 1967; and draft assignments from the vendors to the Capuchin friars. One of the drafts is annotated on the front cover: ‘Approved 28 May 1967’. Other legal documents in the file related to the said property include: Copy assignment from William James Tomkins to Sir John Scott and others of the aforementioned lease of 17 Oct. 1840 of premises on the south side of the South Mall, Cork. 22 Aug. 1905. Copy made on 2 Aug. 1967. ‘Copy extracts from the minute book of the Protestant Hall and Assembly Rooms, 1892-1967’ referring to the appointment of new trustees and to the sale of the portions of the Hall premises to the adjoining Holy Trinity Church. Copy made on 2 Aug. 1967; Requisitions on title to the Assembly Rooms property, South Mall, Cork. 9 May 1967; Copy probate and will of the aforementioned Charles Jermyn and other trustees of the Protestant Assembly Rooms, Cork. The copies were made by Gregg, Jermyn & Sons, Cork, solicitors, to facilitate the aforementioned auction. The file also includes some correspondence relating to plans for the future use of the Assembly Rooms site by the Capuchins (1974-5). See also CA HT/2/4/11.
Particulars and conditions of sale by Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., the FMC Trust and others to Donal Herlihy of the dwelling and premises known as the Assembly Rooms, 22 South Mall (lot 1), held under a lease dated 17 Oct. 1840 (CA/HT/2/1/1/11) and part of a car park held under a lease dated 1 Jan. 1846 (CA/HT/2/1/1/9) for the purchase money of £300,000. With copy ordnance survey map delineating the said properties. Endorsed on title page with manuscript annotation: ‘Never proceeded with, 23 Sept. 1987’.
Lease from Benjamin Whitestone, Cork, to William Clark, merchant, of a cellar, yard and linnies formerly in the possession of Paul Benson and ‘containing in front to the quay seventy-five feet and in depth at the east end thereof two hundred and twenty four feet situated on Red Abbey Island in the city of Cork’, for 800 years at the yearly rent of £70. With attached sketch map of the premises titled: ‘A map of cellars, linnies and yards near Parliament Bridge, let by Mr Benjamin Whitestone to Mr William Clark delineated in foot measurement, October 24th 1781, by Patrick [Ahern]’.
Copy will and last testament of Isaac Mee, Cork city, merchant. He bequeaths all his leasehold interests in Cork to his wife, Susanna Mee. He appoints his wife, and friends, Michael Wood and Daniel Callaghan, merchants, his executors.
Probate of the last will and testament of Sir William Saint Lawrence Travers, Rosmore, County Cork. He devises and bequeaths to his wife Elizabeth Barbara all his estate and property (real and personal) and appoints her his residuary legatee. Sir William died on 31 Aug. 1877 and his will was proved on 17 Nov. 1877. It is noted in the probate that the ‘effects sworn’ amounted to ‘under £3,000’.
Copy schedules and affidavits prepared for the High Court of Justice of Ireland (Probate Division) in relation to the personal estate and effects of Robert Warner, late of 71 Penrose Quay, Cork. The schedule includes property on Charlotte Quay held under lease (4 Dec. 1844) for 800 years subject to a head rent of £60; premises on Queen Street held under lease (1 Mar. 1845) for 800 years subject to a head rent of £25; and premises on Penrose Quay held under lease (27 Sept. 1875) for a residue of a term of 999 years subject to a head rent of £30 per annum during the life of Sarah Deaves. See also CA HT/2/1/2/25.
Assignment from Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC, Fr. Louis Pellicetti OSFC and Fr. Bernard Precious OSFC, Catholic clergymen, Queen Street, and Abraham Sutton, White Street, shop owner, Cork, to Fr. David Albert Mitchell OSFC, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Michael Louis Hennessy OSFC, Fr. Goodwin Peter Augustine Lawless OSFC and Fr. Stephen Bolger OSFC, North King Street, Dublin, of the residue a lease dated 8 Mar. 1875 of properties on Charlotte Quay, Cork. In consideration of 10s. (See CA HT/2/1/2/13).
Letter of contract by John Delany to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC, guardian, undertaking to complete works as specified by Robert Walker (c.1835-1910), architect, in respect of the construction of the new confraternity room and vestry at Holy Trinity Friary, for the sum of £743.
‘Return showing the names of persons subscribing towards the repairs of the above-named Church and Convent’ (Cork: Flynn & Company, printers, 66 George’s Street, Cork). A printed appeal on the inside front cover refers to the need for funds to execute the necessary buildings and repairs as ‘with the approach of winter, the Community find themselves literally "without a roof over their heads"’. The account book is incomplete and relates only to the Coburg Street districts. Entries are listed under names, residences and amount of weekly subscriptions. The remainder of the volume contains a history of the vicissitudes of the Irish Capuchins in the late nineteenth century. Includes short biographical notes on Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC (Vice-Provincial and later Commissary General), Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (a Capuchin friar from Lyons, France, who was Commissary General of the Cork and Rochestown houses) and Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (first Provincial Minister of the reconstituted Irish Capuchin Province in 1885).
Copy articles from the 'Cork Daily Herald' and 'Cork Examiner' referring to the architectural style and construction of the new Capuchin Friary adjoining Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork.
