Copy undertakings and draft agreements by Thomas Burnell, Carrick Quarry, Edenderry, to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, 49-50 North King Street, Dublin, to deliver stones for the construction of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The undertaking reads: ‘I hereby undertake and agree to supply you for the new Roman Catholic Church now in the course of erection in Church Street, City of Dublin, with the best quality of hammer dressed white limestone …’. A schedule is attached specifying the type and quantity of stones to be provided. With guarantees given to the gentlemen of the building committee.
An account book titled ‘Book of money received or expended in the building of the new church of St. Mary of the Angels’. The book comprises a record of monies collected and expenditure in financing of the construction of the church. Most of the expenditure is recorded as lodgements on account in the Hibernian Bank Ltd. Several annotations are made in the account book. On 7 June it was recorded: ‘N.B. Very Rev. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly and Fr. Joseph Martin Harkins raised in the National [Bank] the sum of £300 for building purposes. This loan was advanced at three months’ payment – in full. A condition I regard as very much disparaging to our credit. Indeed, if I were allowed to act I would close the account in the National’.
Judgement searches in the Registry of Deeds for acts involving Fathers Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Michael Hennessy OSFC, James E. Tommins OSFC, Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, P.A. Goodwyn Lawless OSFC and Christopher Nangle OSFC affecting a plot of ground on the west side of Church Street, Parish of Saint Michan.
Register of masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The title page includes various annotations including a reference to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (1831-1894). The inside front cover is annotated: ‘For Altar Use’. The Mass entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Register of masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The title page includes various annotations including a reference to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (1831-1894). The Mass entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Copy probate of the will and testament of John McGrane, Sandymount Green, County Dublin, dated 2 May 1863. He bequeaths his leasehold tenements, lands, stocks-in-trade and household goods to his wife Mary Anne McGrane. The probate is dated 18 Sept. 1868. The copy was compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great Georges Street. With a cover letter from Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC to Terence O’Reilly. 4 Feb. 1881.
Account book giving details of donations and collections for the Church Street Friars. Reference is made to the collections for vestments and to the sale of Adoration Cards (Oct. 1852). Information is given in respect of the name of the donator and the amount received. Reference is made to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC (d. 1894) and to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC (1826-1893). A short note re expenditure from January-February 1850 is made on the final the page including the payment of £8 8s for ‘rent for school’.
Draft and copy particulars and conditions of sale of the leasehold interest in 47-50 North King Street, to be sold at Burke’s Great Rooms, 14 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin. The premises have a net rental profit of £64 1s 6½d. and are held under a lease for 9,000 years bearing the date of 1 July 1862 (See CA CS/2/2/4/13). The biddings note that Walter Murphy purchased the said premises from Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC, Fr. Daniel Patrick. O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC for the sum of £570. With a poster (75 cm x 48 cm, OS printed on blue paper) advertising the said sale. The file also includes various legal documents drawn up to facilitate the sale including a schedule of taxes payable by the vendors on the properties; instructions for counsel regarding settling the conditions of sale; draft declaration from Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC regarding title to the North King Street properties; Draft and copy assignment by Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC and others to Walter and Daniel Murphy of the aforementioned premises. Nov. 1883; draft solicitor’s’ costs in preparing title and particulars of sale; correspondence of T. & C. Martin, James W. Nagle and Terence O’Reilly, solicitors, regarding efforts to trace title to the North King Street properties.
Copy draft lease of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC to Patrick Macken, grocer and wine merchant, of no. 48 North King Street, for 100 years at the yearly rent of £36. An annotation on title page reads: ‘approved of as altered on part of lessors, Terence O’Reilly, 9 Mar. 1874’.
Correspondence regarding a legal dispute arising out of a lease of 48 North King Street offered by the Capuchin friars to Patrick Macken. On 14 Dec. 1871, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC wrote to Macken offering him a lease of the said premises at the yearly rent of £38. Correspondents include Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, Patrick Macken and Henry Oldham, solicitor, 42 Fleet Street, Dublin. A note from Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC is also included in the file. It reads ‘Make Mr. T. O’Reilly hasten with the maps and valuation of N. King Street properties and N. Brunswick Street to get the faculty from Rome for selling them’.
