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Date: 1834
Author: Rev. John Gother
Publisher: B. Smith, 46 Mary Street, Dublin
Full title: 'Instructions on the epistles and gospels of all the Sundays and festivals throughout the year, and of every day during the Holy season of Lent. … Two volumes complete in one'.

Date: 1837
Author: Samuel Lewis (d. 1865)
Publisher: London: S. Lewis & Co., 87 Aldersgate Street
Full title: 'A topographical dictionary of Ireland: comprising the several counties; cities; boroughs; corporate, market and post towns; parishes; and villages, with historical and statistical descriptions embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporations ... / by Samuel Lewis'.

Date: 1834
Author: Virgil; William Duncan (editor)
Publisher: Edinburgi: Stirling & Kenney
Full title: 'P. Virgilii Maronis Opera: interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruæus ... Juxta ipsius auctoris editionem parisiensem. Huic editioni accessit index accuratissimus, ante editis longe locupletrio. Accessit insuper Clavis metrico-Virgiliana, sive difficultatum præcipuarum in Virgilii versificatione solutio; nunquam antea edita: studio et cura Gulielmi Duncan'.

This section contains mainly legal documents including various types of deeds of title including leases, mortgages, wills, property abstracts, searches, and financial documents. The section also includes correspondence from solicitors engaged in legal work connected with the conveyance of property. The material is divided into two sub-series relating to the location of the plots of ground to which the document refers: Walkin Street (later Friary Street) and Pennyfeather Lane.

Although the association of the Capuchin friars with the Walkin Street (now Friary Street) area of Kilkenny dates to the late seventeenth century, the documents in this section relate primarily to the present-day Church of St. Francis, built by Fr. Peter Joseph Mulligan OSFC (1793-1853) in 1848. The section also contains documents relating to the subsequent extensions to the Friary, most notably in 1897 when a large three-storey building between Walkin Street and Pennyfeather Lane was constructed to provide, among other things, accommodation for novices. The relatively large number of documents relating to the Walkin Street properties has necessitated the creation of a further three sub-sub-series relating to a particular plot of ground, purchase or sale.

This section relates to two houses on Walkin Street which were formerly known as the Munster Arms. A Kilkenny newspaper, 'Finn’s Leinster Journal' (18 July 1770), included an article which referred to an old Inn known as 'The Munster Arms' on Walkin Street. The plot of ground on which this building stood was situated opposite the existing Capuchin Friary on Walkin Street. The buildings were purchased by the Capuchins in 1896 and part of the Munster Arms’ site was given over to Bishop Abraham Brownrigg in lieu of an alms house or charitable institution which was located on the opposite, Friary side of Walkin Street and which was subsequently demolished and incorporated into the existing Friary building (see CA KK/2/1/1/1/15). One of the above-mentioned houses on the Munster Arms site was retained and let to a tenant in order to meet the annual rent of £13 7s 8d on the property (see CA KK/2/1/1/2/5). The section includes deeds with numerous references to the historic owners of the Munster Arms and Alms House sites on Walkin Street including the Colles and Empson families. It is likely that part of Munster Arms site is currently occupied by a property now known as 17 Friary Street which was subsequently sold by the Capuchins (see section 2.1.1.2. below).

Renewal of a lease from Abraham, Richard and Rachel Colles, Millmount, County Kilkenny, grandsons and granddaughter of William Colles, late of Abbeyvale, deceased, to Richard Empson, merchant, of the premises known as the ‘Munster Arms’ on Walkin Street in Kilkenny, in consideration of the fines payable for the addition of two of the three lives referred to in the original lease of 8 Apr. 1769. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/1).

Copy will and probate of Richard Empson, Kilkenny city. He leaves all his freehold and personal property situated in Kilkenny to his wife, Ruth Epsom, subject to several legacies charged upon the said properties for his sons and daughters. It is noted in the will that the house and concerns on Walkin Street are ‘now in the possession of Mr Mathew, Mr Max, Mr Hunt and their tenants’. Ruth Epsom and George Leech are appointed executrix and executor of the will. The probate was granted on 6 Nov. 1820.

Abstract of title of Joseph Empson Esq. to the house and premises on Walkin Street commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’, parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny City. The abstract commences with a recital of a lease (dated 8 Apr. 1769) by William Colles to George Chapman of the said house for three lives at the yearly rent of £14 10s (see CA KK/2/1/1/1/1). The abstract concludes with a reference to an assignment of lease (dated 5 May 1893) by Frederick Reynell Pack to Joseph Empson Esq. of the said house and premises for ever at the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d. Endorsed on title page: ‘Abstract prepared on the sale by Joseph Empson Esq. to Reverend F.M Neary and Reverend Thomas O’Connor completed by conveyance dated 1 Aug. 1895. Joseph Empson Esq., 1st part, Mrs M.H. Doxey, 2nd part, Rev. F.M Neary OSFC and another, 3rd part’.

Conveyance from Joseph Empson Esq., Glenageary, Kingstown, County Dublin (with the approval of Memmette H. Doxey, personal representative of the late Arthur Joshua Boyd) to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC and Fr. F.M. Neary OSFC, Roman Catholic clergymen, Walkin Street, Kilkenny of the house and concerns on Walkin Street formerly known by the name of ‘The Munster Arms’ in consideration of £300 and subject to the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d.