Copy lease by Atwell Hayes, Cork, to Christopher Allen, Burgess, Cork, of ‘one field or meadow with a garden thereon situate and being in Friars Walk in the South Liberty of the said City of Cork containing 3 acres 2 roods 6 perches … and also 3 fields part of the lands of Curraconway containing 5 acres and twenty seven perches statue measure’, for 850 years at the yearly rent of £26 2s 4d. An annotation in the margin indicates that the aforementioned lot on Friars Walk was assigned to the Capuchin friars ‘and indemnified by the other lot against a greater rent of £70 10s 0d’.
Copy judgement by the Rt. Hon. John Monroe, land judge, High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) granting a plot of ground with the premises thereon on Sober Lane and Blackamoor Lane to John Rahilly, Barracks Street, Cork. With a schedule referred to in the said deed listing tenants’ names, annual rent and length of tenure.
Epitome of leases relating to Holy Trinity Church, the adjoining Capuchin Friary and the Third Order Chapel, and lands at Rochestown, County Cork. The epitome includes abstracts of leases between 2 Nov. 1832 and 27 Apr. 1880.
Epitome of deeds and leases relating to properties held by the Capuchins in Cork. The epitome commences with an abstract of a lease by John Lecky to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 2 Nov. 1832 (CA HT/2/1/2/10) and concludes with a summary of an assignment by Fr. Cherubim Mazzini OSFC and others to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC and others of all interest and claims on premises on Charlotte Quay and on Queen Street dated 8 Mar. 1875 (see CA HT/2/1/2/13). The volume also includes transcripts and notes taken from the ‘old account book of the Cork Friary’, covering the personnel, governance and history of the Order in Ireland (specifically in Cork) from 1836 to 1859. The original volume is extant at CA HT/3/1/1.
The sub-series contains the correspondence of solicitors. Most of the correspondence relates to bills of costs for legal work connected with property-related transactions.
Receipts for rent payable out of 26 Cook Street, Cork, from Fr. Thomas O’Callaghan to Walter Thornhill & Sons, estate & insurance agency, 46 South Mall, Cork.
Letters to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Robert McClement, auditor, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, concerning income tax deductions from rents paid by the Capuchin friars and fees connected with his work for the Order in filing charitable exemption claims.
Letter to Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (1898-1945), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, regarding a claim for a reduction of rent from Brabants Ltd. who hold property from the Capuchin friars on Queen Street, and to the rents due from the Electrification Radio Company.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch; 1/8 inch to 1 foot Plans by Charles McCarthy & Son, Emmet Place, Cork, Richard Hennessy & Sons, engineers and contractors, 61 Grand Parade, Cork, and Thomas H.M. Wain, 15 Cook Street, consulting engineer, Cork. They show heating and piping installations for the ground, first and second floors of the Holy Trinity Friary and Church, Cork. For documentation relating to this building work see CA HT/2/5/22.
