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Letters from Thomas Ryan & Sons, ecclesiastical sculptors, 30 & 32 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC, guardian, regarding the installation of statues and additions to the marble altar and pulpit at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.

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).

Correspondence between John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, Messrs W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, and Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OSFC regarding the specification for work on the extension to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The enclosed plans and alternative ‘schemes’ for the extension to the sacristy are at CA KK/2/3/20.

Bills of costs from W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. for contract work on St. Anne’s Shrine and for the extension of the floor in the Third Order Chapel.

Inventory of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The inventory lists the furniture, fittings and decorative features of the church, the choir, the Third Order Chapel, the sacristy, the parlours, and porter’s room.

Agreement from Fr. William Travers OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Bourke OFM Cap. and Fr. Jeremiah Kelleher OFM Cap., Rochestown, County Cork, to Patrick Phelan, coal merchant, Friary Street, Kilkenny. The agreement notes that the Capuchin friars are intending to demolish a dwelling house known as No. 47 Friary (formerly Walkin) Street and erect a new building. Reference is made to the possible inconvenience and disruption which may be caused to Phelan’s adjoining business. The Capuchin friars agreed to pay Phelan £50 as a consideration for his granting rights to enter onto his property for the purpose of erecting scaffolding at the gable end of 47 Walkin Street and for the demolition of the existing boundary wall between the two premises.

Bill of quantities for proposed Capuchin novitiate extension at Kilkenny by Gabriel M. Cleere, chartered quantity surveyor, 11 Ely Place, Dublin. It is noted that the ‘work included in this bill of quantities consists of the erection of a new two-storey re-enforced concrete-framed structure and connecting bridge across Pennyfeather Lane to the existing Friary’.

The title page reads: ‘The ledger of the Capuchin Convent, Kilkenny, August 6th 1860 and 1861-1880’. The manuscript title is initialled by Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC. Most of the expenditure entries relate to household sundries, wages and expenses incurred for the upkeep of the church and friary. Most of the income derives from monies received at collections at Sunday mass and at vespers. Monthly totals are included. The entry for 14 Aug. 1867 is signed by the Irish Capuchin Commissionary General.