Bill of costs of John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitor, for legal work in connection with securing the release of John Slater’s premises on Pennyfeather Lane for £100. Total costs: £9 10s 3d. With receipt.
Correspondence regarding demands for rent payable to the Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, for a garage property on Pennyfeather Lane. The tenant was Dr Reginald Griffin, 42 Parliament Street, Kilkenny. With rent receipts, demand notices and some copy letters from Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, Walkin Street.
This sub-series contains the correspondence of solicitors. Most of the letters relate to work connected with property-related transactions and associated fees and bills of cost.
Letter from James Poe & F.M.J. Lyons, solicitors, Kilkenny, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a list of deeds connected with the purchase of property (on Pudding Lane) from Patrick Francis Doran. With searches from the registry of deeds.
Letters from Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny, regarding the proposed sale by the Capuchin Order of premises situated on Pennyfeather Lane to James J. Farrell. The letters refer to the need to inform the Charity Commissioners of the proposals for the sale in order to obtain a vesting order. Reference is also made to negotiations with the Harty estate which holds the freehold interest in the property being sold to Farrell. With solicitors’ bill of costs.
Letter from Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny, regarding a claim against Kilkenny Corporation for a malicious damage to a shrine in the Church.
Letters from Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, Abbey Bridge, Dean Street, Kilkenny, enclosing schedules of old deeds and leases (principally relating to properties formerly known as the ‘Munster Arms’ and to other premises on Friary Street) which have been returned to the Order’s archives. Many of these deeds are listed in the collection above.
Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet A longitudinal section and ‘alternative elevation’ of proposed extension to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The ‘alternative elevation’ drawing shows the portion of the Friary fronting onto Walkin Street. The section shows the tertiary office, the choir and community room. The plan is titled ‘Drawing No. 5’.
Plan of ‘general arrangement of power house’ for the installation of electric lighting at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The name of the engineering firm is not given. With blueprint of the ‘stands for Vs type cells to be installed’.
Scale: ‘½ scale’ Sketches of proposed memorial ‘to be erected by Mr. Geary’ in the Church of St. Francis. Three alternative sketches or ‘schemes’ of the memorial statue or shrine to Our Lady are given by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin. With manuscript annotations re the costs of the work and installation.