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Photographic prints of unidentified clerics including bishops, diocesan priests and members of religious orders. The prints were seemingly compiled to illustrate articles in 'The Capuchin Annual'.

Correspondence re plumbing and electrical work on Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary. The file includes a Bill of Quantities (and costs) for ‘sundry works in connection with proposed alterations to mechanical, electrical and sanitary plumbing services’ at Ard Mhuire. The correspondents include Fr. Simeon Breen OFM Cap., guardian, J.R. Boyd Barrett, 5 Camden Place, Cork, architect, Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Some of the letters refer to the deferment of plans for the painting of the Friary church and choir.

File relating to an application seeking a remission on the valuation (and rates) paid on Ard Mhuire Friary. It is noted that the Friary ‘is used exclusively as a theological training centre for the Capuchin Franciscan Order, which is a charitable religious organization, in which students are prepared for the missionary and apostolic work of the Order, both at home and abroad’. The correspondents include Fr. Berchmans McCarthy OFM Cap., guardian, Donegal County Council, James P. Sweeney, Falcarragh, County Donegal, solicitor, and Donal O’Buachalla & Co., property consultant, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. The file includes demand notices (and receipts) for rate payments.

Letter from Kevin J. Wilson, auctioneer, Dame Street, Dublin, to Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap., President, regarding the valuation of Father Mathew Hall and interior fittings. Wilson affirmed that the ‘entire property is held on a lease for 150 years at a rent of £100. The Hall is used as an amusement hall and has accommodation for 750 people and 3 exits. … Adjoining the said hall there are 6 cottages, which are let at 8s 9d per week’. The entire valuation of the Hall property is given as £47,000.

Valuation report by Ganly Walters Boyd, 5 William Street, Kilkenny, for garden premises on Pennyfeather Lane. The property comprises a portion of the garden attached to the Capuchin Friary. It comprises approximately 18,000 square feet in area, and at the time of inspection was laid out in level lawns and with, at one end, a handball alley and a small stand for spectators. The property is bounded to the north by the remainder of the Friary garden, to the east by a car belonging to Allied Irish Banks, to the south by an extensive development site owned by the proposed purchaser and to the west by the same development site. The property is held by the Capuchin friars under an unencumbered freehold title. With attached copy ordnance survey map.

Value duty form from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for the conveyance by Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson to Rev. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC and others of premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny. The completed form includes information in respect of the occupiers of the premises and the poor rate valuation for each separate hereditament. With draft copies.

A collection of views and scenes around Rochestown in County Cork. The collection contains twenty-two plates and appears to form a distinct and related series of images. The file includes:
29 (a) Two plates showing a view of a walled road leading to Rochestown Capuchin Friary. A horse and cart (with a visible advertisement ‘Delicious’) is stopped on the road at the gates. With annotated cover.
29 (b) Two plates: the annotated cover reads: ‘The [Mayberry?] Wood, Rochestown’. The image shows two women walking in some woods.
29 (c) Two plates: Two women walking along a wooded road. With an annotated cover.
29 (d) Two plates: Two women sitting beside a wooded area. The annotated cover reads: ‘On top of the hill, Rochestown’.
29 (e) Two plates: a view of a field near Rochestown Capuchin Friary. With an annotated cover.
29 (f) Two plates: The annotated cover reads: ‘Group at Rochestown Station before completion of loop line’.
29 (g) Two plates: Two women walking in the forest. The annotated cover reads: ‘Top of hill. Rochestown’.
29 (h) Two women at the lake in front of Rochestown Capuchin Friary. With an annotated cover.
29 (i) Two plates: A family group on the wooded road in Rochestown. With an annotated cover.
29 (j) The annotated cover reads: ‘A view of the procession at Rochestown (from a window)’. A date of 1905 is provided on the cover.
29 (k) Two plates: A view of a woman standing on a horse-drawn cart. The annotated cover reads: ‘Mare & foal farm & foal’.
29 (l) Two plates: The annotated cover reads: ‘Departmental Henhouses’.

A bound volume containing photographic prints complied for publication by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Views’. Most of the prints are not captioned. Many of the prints are of scenic locations in Ireland (particularly on the western coast), and of major Catholic churches and places of worship. The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):

4. Thatched cottages in The Claddagh, County Galway.
5. The statue of St. Patrick on the Hill of Tara, County Meath.
6. Café at Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland.
7. Belfast Hills (Black Mountain) overlooking Belfast.
8. The un-restored McCarthy's Tower and Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.
9. Exterior view of Queen’s University, Belfast.
10. Chapter Room, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
11. Loreto Convent, Kilkenny.
12. Large crowd hearing mass on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, at the Eucharistic Congress, Dublin, 1932.
13. The weekly walk at the Carthusian Monastery of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
14. View from a bay window at Ards House (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary), County Donegal.
15. The refectory, of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
16. Church Street, Dublin, looking towards North King Street.
17. The Library, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
18. The Open-Air Swimming Pool, Victoria Cross, Cork city.
19. The refectory, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
20. The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street.
21. The sanctuary, Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
22. The statue of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on O’Connell Street.
23. The unveiling of the Four Masters Monument in Donegal Town by the Most Rev. Dr. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe.
24. City Hall, Cork.
25. Front of the Church, St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
26. Four Courts’ and Capel Street Bridge, Dublin.
27. The destroyed Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, Madrid, May 1931.
28. Healy’s Pass, Glengarriff, County Cork.
29. Laneway in Killarney, County Kerry.
30. Kilkenny Caste.
31. Owenreagh River Valley, Killarney, County Kerry.
32. Community Choir, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
33. Interior of Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
34. Exterior of St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal.
35. A missionary ambulance in British Somaliland. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘My “house on wheels”, head-quarter, Berbera, Fr. Adoldf, Berbera, British Somaliland’.
36. The cloister garden, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
37. The cemetery, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
38. Catholic religious procession through Holloway, London in May 1931.
39. Reception Lodge, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
40. Re-opening of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims, France. Note: The Cathedral was officially re-opened in 1938.
41. Exterior of the Church at the Capuchin Friary at Frascati, Rome.
42. Collegio Internazionale S. Lorenzo da Brindisi, Frascati, Rome.
43. Aerial view of Drogheda, County Louth.
44. The ‘Forty Steps’ (or Cromwell’s Quarters), Dublin.
45. The beach at Rossbeigh, County Kerry.
46. Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk.
47. Lake Isle of Innisfree, County Sligo.
48. The Customs House, Dublin
49. Rosses Point, County Sligo.
50. Strandhill Beach, County Sligo.
51. The Cathedral Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nathy, Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon.
52. Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Cork.
53. The Tower Mount at the Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
54. The Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
55. The exterior of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School, Burlingame, California.
56. Tobernalt Holy Well, County Sligo.
57. Father Mathew Statue, Patrick’s Street, Cork.
58. The Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Ennis, County Clare.
59. Aerial view of Waterford city showing Redmond Bridge.
60. Altar at the Capuchin Church of Saint Felix of Cantalice at Centocelle, Rome, Italy.
61. East Window, Interior of the ruins in Loughrea Abbey, County Galway.
62. Interior of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Tilbury, London.
63. Monument to Cardinal Massaia in Frascati, Rome.
64. Exterior of the Church of the Sacred Heart, New Delhi, India.
65. Exterior of the Cathedral Church of St. Mel, Longford Town.