Expenditure and receipt account book of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. Expenditure accounts include monies for monthly masses, quests, habits and scapulars, and wages for lay staff (such as ‘tertiary chapel woman’). Receipts include monies derived principally from member subscriptions.
Address to Archbishop Ignatius Persico OSFC (1823-1896) by the tertiaries of Kilkenny. Persico travelled throughout the country from July 1887 until January 1888 consulting prominent members of the hierarchy in relation to the Plan of Campaign and nationalist political agitation.
Will of Concubhar Ó Muíneacháin, St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny dated 4 Feb. 1931. He bequeaths £350 ‘for masses for my parents, brothers, sisters and self, to the guardian for the time being of the Friary, Kilkenny’ and appoints James Henry and the president of the Third Order attached to the Friary in Kilkenny as his executors. He leaves his books and manuscripts to the Capuchin Friary at Ard Mhuire, County Donegal. The file includes his stock and share certificates (for varying amounts) from the Dublin United Tramways Company, the Keystone Knitting Mills and the Irish-American Oil Company Limited.
Letter from Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. regarding the information contained in Third Order profession books.
Letter from the Most Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, Provincial Minister, granting faculties to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, permitting him to perform the Sacraments in the diocese.
Circular regarding conferences of the clergy in the Diocese of Ossory in 1916. The circular includes the dates of the annual collection, the diocesan retreat for the clergy, the meeting of the committee of St. Kieran’s College and the order of diocesan visitations. Signed by the Most Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory.
Circular letter from the Bishop of Ossory [the Most Rev. Patrick Collier] to the clergy warning of the dangers of ‘performances … by professional companies in the Theatre in Kilkenny [and] cinema entertainments for Sunday nights’. The circular letter is not dated and is incomplete.
Pastoral letters from the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory. The pastorals to the clergy of the diocese are titled: ‘The new discipline on canonical investigations before marriage’ and ‘The confraternity of Christian Doctrine’.
Photographic prints of the interior of the Church of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. One of the prints is annotated on the reverse: ‘Capuchin Convent, Walkin Street, Kilkenny. A. McMahon. With Fr. [Columbus] Maher’s compliments’. The other print is ink-stamped on the reverse: ‘Rathmines Photographic Studio, 26 Richmond Hill, Dublin’.
A photographic print (on card) of the interior of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Capuchin Convent, Walkin Street, Kilkenny. A. McMahon. With Fr. [Columbus] Maher’s compliments’.