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Specifications from E.J. Creed, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, J. Treacy & Co., 17 Stoneybatter, Dublin, and J. Seward, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, Dublin, for internal and external painting works of the president’s room, billiard room, toilet, return room, staircases and other parts of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. With a manuscript draft of the said specification and contract.

Specifications and estimates for the installation of electric lighting in the Capuchin Friary and Church, Kilkenny, by Keatinge & Gaule, electrical engineers and contractors, 126 The Quay, Waterford, and Louis J. Lawless, consulting engineers, 19 Percy Place, Dublin.

Specification, possibly by Ashlin & Coleman, architects, for alterations to the doorway of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The specification outlines the processes, methods, and materials to be employed in the re-construction of the porch and of other alterations to the windows, staircase, and galleries of the church. The specification is incomplete. See also CA CS/2/5/17.

Specification of works for the erection and completion of the Capuchin novitiate extension on Pennyfeather Lane by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. With a similar specification by the architect for work on internal alterations to the Friary to accommodate the novitiate building. With Bourke’s statement of account of professional fees associated with the project (£355 15s 11d). The total cost of the work is stated as £3,637 7s 6d.

Specification by Charles J. McCarthy, architect, 12 Westland Road, Dublin, ‘of works to be done in building the Chapel of the Third Order of the Capuchin Franciscans at Church Street, Dublin’. The specification outlines the legally binding aspects of the contract for the work and the processes, methods, and materials to be employed in the construction. See also CA CS/2/5/10.

Specification by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of work to be done and materials to be used in the carrying out of the proposed new aisle, porches, and extension to the nave at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.

Specification for the reconstruction of seating arrangements at the rear of the auditorium in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by J. Seward, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, Dublin. Includes a schedule of work to be done, materials to be used and form of tender.

Specification for electrical installation works at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by Nicholas Mathews, engineer, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. With a statement of the general conditions of the contract.

Specification for the workmanship and materials required in the building of a retail shop and premises on Bristol Street in Birmingham for James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. The specification was compiled by John Smith & Son, architects, 88 Colmore Row, Birmingham. James Pearse had inherited his father’s shop in Bristol Street in Birmingham and seemingly had an architectural firm draw up plans for it to be converted into a newsagent and domestic dwelling.

Specification and contract of agreement with Alex Chestnutt & Company, organ builders, Manor Street, Waterford, for the installation of a ‘two-manual organ’ at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The agreement (dated 28 July 1914) with Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, notes that the consideration money for the installation of the organ was £580. The file includes letters from Alex Chestnutt to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC in which the former notes that ‘owing to this unfortunate war there is very little doing in the organ building trade … and having many bills to meet now at the end of the year I have no other course to take but to ask if you will kindly oblige me with another £100’. (30 Dec. 1914). With letters to Fr. Pius Duggan OSFC, guardian, regarding an estimate from the cleaning and overhaul of the organ (8 Feb. 1930).