Abstract of title of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC to the premises known as 47-50 North King Street. The abstract provides a summary of the major title deeds and indentures affecting these premises. It commences with a recital of the lease by Frances MacDonnell of 19 Sept. 1862 (CA CS/2/2/4/13) and concludes with a lease by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and others of said properties to John Reilly dated 29 Sept. 1869.
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’.
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’.
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.
Lease by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Joseph Martin Harkins OSFC, Fr. William Corrigan OSFC and Fr. Thomas Kavanagh OSFC, 49 North King Street, to John Ryan, 69 Church Street, of nos. 133 and 134 Church Street, for 6 years at the yearly rent of £38.
Assignment by Margaret Devlin, John Cordner and Elizabeth Cordner to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Joseph Martin Harkins OSFC, Fr. William Corrigan OSFC and Fr. Thomas Kavanagh OSFC of the residue of the lease (29 Oct. 1857) of nos. 133 and 134 Church Street and no. 27 Bow Street in consideration of the sum of £132. 26 Aug. 1880. A similar assignment from Elizabeth Cordner to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and the other Capuchin friars of Church Street is appended to the deed. 31 Jan. 1881.
Lease by William John Russell, Mountjoy Square, to Fr. Daniel O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. David Thomas Ashe OSFC, and Fr. Edmund Dillon OSFC, North King Street, of a parcel of ground and shed ‘formerly known as numbers “21” and “22” but now known as number “21” … situated on the east side of Bow Street … [with] the adjoining Chapel Yard’. The term is specified as fifty-nine years and the annual rent is £24 to be paid in two yearly half payments. With a coloured sketch map showing the premises referred to in the lease. The sketch map was complied by C. Carmody, 20 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin. Scale: 20 feet to an inch.
Lease of James John Bagot, Castle Bagot, County Dublin, to John McGrane, Church Street, hosier, of two dwelling houses (nos. 22 and 23) located on the east side of Bow Street, which were formerly ‘the large house known as the Bow Street Asylum’ for 31 years or one life at the yearly rent of £18. With draft surrender of said lease by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and other Capuchin friars to Ambrose More O’Ferrall. The original lease on the said properties to John McGrane had been vested in the Capuchin friars, Church Street, and it was necessary to surrender the original lease in order to enable O’Ferrall to grant a new lease of the properties. (See CA CS/2/2/5/11).
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.
Memorandum of agreement between Mary Anne Magrane, widow, Church Street, and Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and other Capuchin friars, North King Street, regarding the purchase of the houses and premises known as nos. 22-23 Bow Street held by the former under a lease (dated 1 Jan. 1849) from William Bagot for the life of the Duke of Leinster or for the residue of a term of 31 years at the yearly rent of £18. The purchase price is stated as £250. With draft (28 Nov. 1874) compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great George’s Street.
