Copy will and last testament of Susanna Mee, Templeville, County Cork. She bequeaths all her rights, title and interest to several premises on Morrison’s Island (otherwise known as Island Nagay) tenanted by her nephew, John Lecky, and Michael Wood, and premises on Queen Street (demised to George Cotter) for the sole benefit of the aforementioned John Lecky subject to £1,000, the interest to be paid to her sister, Margaret Lecky, for life.
Certificate of registration of John Hill into the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Ireland (an Irish Freemasonry institution). The certificate is dated 10 November 1859 and is signed by Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791-1874), Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland, and Lucius Henry Deering (1818-1887), Deputy Grand Secretary.
This file includes a document relating to St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Cork. In the late 1820s, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC expressed his discontent that all the graveyards in the city remained under Protestant supervision. Permission had to be obtained by priests to officiate at Catholic burials. This permission was frequently only grudgingly given and having personally witnessed an attempt by the Protestant Dean of Cork to prevent the Catholic Dean from officiating in St. Finbarr’s Churchyard, Fr. Mathew moved to acquire a burial ground for Catholics. As a result of a well-supported subscription, parts of the Botanic gardens were leased and opened in February 1830 and were designated as St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
This section includes deeds relating to title of properties on North Brunswick Street. The deeds probably relate to a proposal of Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC to build a new Capuchin Church on North Brunswick Street.
Engravings from the ‘Illustrated London News’ showing the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at Valentia and the ‘Telegraph Cable Fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, County Cork’. The prints are taken from an edition dated 28 July 1866. The captions for the images read (top) ‘The Atlantic telegraph cable fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay’ and (lower) ‘Laying the shore end of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Foilhommerum [Bay], Isle of Valentia’. Located off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Valentia Island was the eastern terminus of the first commercially viable transatlantic telegraph cable which came into operation in 1866. The prominent ship in the upper image is the ‘Great Eastern’, by some distance the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch.
A transcript of ‘An elegy to the memory of my much beloved and lamented friend Mr William Woodlock (born 1741; died 1825) of the town of Roscrea’. The second page of the transcript has family history notes by William Woodlock (1832-1890), including a partial family tree which indicates that William Woodlock (1741-1825) was his great-grandfather. An additional entry notes that William Paul Woodlock (c.1780-1834) left Roscrea in 1798.
A report of the Committee of the Dublin South City Special Coal Fund / 1872-3. The flier provides a brief account of the work of the committee and a list of parishes and districts supplied with coal. Includes a list of contributors and subscribers.
Manuscript notes by William Woodlock extant on the reverse of a printed flier from Samuel Haughton, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society, Phoenix Park, Dublin (February 1874).
