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A bound volume containing newspaper clippings relating to historic Irish castles, churches, abbeys, monuments, and public buildings. Most of the clippings are taken from newspaper articles seemingly published in the late nineteenth century. Many of the entries take the form of antiquarian sketches and illustrations. Many of the illustrations appear to be taken (or reproduced) from articles originally published in the ‘Dublin Penny Journal’ and the ‘Illustrated Dublin Journal’.

Includes content on the following buildings:

Luttrellstown Castle, County Dublin
Clontarf Castle, Dublin
St. Michan’s Church, Dublin
Malahide Castle, Dublin
Reginald’s Tower, Waterford
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin
Parliament House, Dublin
The Custom House, Dublin
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
Christ Church Catedral, Dublin
Dunsoghly Castle, County Dublin
Killiney Church, County Dublin
Trim Castle, County Meath
Bective Abbey, County Meath
St. Mary’s Abbey, Duleek, County Meath
Athcarne Castle, County Meath
Rheban Castle, County Kildare
Ballyloughan Castle, County Carlow
Leixlip Castle, County Kildare
Howth Castle, County Dublin
Maynooth Castle, County Kildare
Cahir Castle, County Tipperary
Ardfinnan Castle, County Tipperary
Grannagh Castle, County Kilkenny
Antrim Castle (Massereene Castle)
Mellifont Abbey, County Louth
Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Downpatrick, County Down
Enniscorthy Castle, County Wexford
Dunbrody Abbey, County Wexford
Sligo Abbey
Adare Castle, County Limerick
Kells Priory, County Kilkenny
Holycross Abbey, County Tipperary
Conna Castle, County Cork
Liscarroll Castle, County Cork
Armoy Round Tower, County Antrim
Muckross Abbey, County Kerry
Courtstown Castle, County Kilkenny
Balleen Castle, County Kilkenny
Jerpoint Abbey, County Kilkenny
Corcomroe Abbey, County Clare
Lisfinny Castle, County Waterford
Blarney Castle, County Cork
St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny
Donaghmore Round Tower, County Meath
Dunluce Castle, County Antrim
Killeen Castle, County Meath
Dunsany Castle, County Meath
Ballyfin House, County Laois
King John’s Castle, Limerick
Roscommon Abbey

Historic: Letter of Titus of Jesus. Re Privileges Missions and Retreats.

M. St. John Neville, ‘Historical and Legendary Recollections of the Rock of Cashel’ (Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1873). The volume is fragmentary and lacking covers and only contains pp 1-22. The first extant page contains a dedication to Lady Georgiana Fullerton ‘whose generous exertions for the benefit of the poor Irish Catholics in London have sustained many a sinking heart and rescued from danger many a helpless little one …’.

A list of Irish Capuchin friars who worked as missionaries in Africa from January 1929 to c.1985. The list was compiled for research purposes by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. The information is listed under name, year of arrival, details of posting (whether to Northern Rhodesia/Zambia or to South Africa) and remarks. Information is also supplied in respect of whether the friar in question is deceased. The list notes that Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. and Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. travelled to Cape Town in January 1929 on a tour of inspection of potential mission territories.

Publisher: New York: The United States Catholic Historical Society
Language: English
Format: Journal; 'Historical Records and Studies', vi, part 1 (Feb. 1911) has an article titled: ‘The temperance movement and Father Theobald Mathew’s visit to the United States, 1840-1851’.
Ink stamp on title page reads: ‘Library OFM Cap., Church Street'.

The series contains records compiled mainly by Capuchin friars relating to the history of the locality around Ard Mhuire Friary including material on the previous owners of Ards House in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Much of this historical research was amassed by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. (1912-1995) who spent nearly sixty years of his ministry as a Capuchin friar in County Donegal.

This series contains unpublished research notes compiled mainly by Capuchin friars, particularly Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953), relating to the history of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny or to noteworthy local members of the Order.