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- 1894 - 1987 (Creation)
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1 folder
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Documents regarding Lord Kenmare. A letter from F.C. Downing & Sons, solicitors, dated 11 April 1894, refers to the deed of 4 February 1802 creating an annuity of £100 per annum and the Deed of 13 January 1803 declaring the trust to be for the benefit of a
school commonly known as “The female charity school”.
The purport of the Deed was a grant by the first Earl of Kenmare, to Dr Sugrue, the Bishop of Kerry, of an annuity of £100 charged on certain townlands for the benefit of the poor of Killarney. This annuity was distributed for many years through the medium of the Presentation Nuns up to 1887.
The Trustee was Dr Sugrue. The Deed was very peculiar and from the beginning had caused problems. M. Leonard, Esquire. J.P. Estate Office Killarney represented Lord Kenmare. There was a problem regarding the Deed not being registered. There was a
problem about the appointment of a new trustee to succeed Dr Sugrue. Lord Kenmare wished the Trustee to be a person of his choice.
Handwritten and typed correspondence between two solicitors; F.C. Downing, Solicitor, 22 Denny Street, Tralee and David M. Moriarty, Solicitor, Killarney. The letter from F.C. Downing, solicitor to D.M. Moriarty, solicitor, regarding annuity to Dr Sugrue, dated 13 March 1900, gives a good explanation of the whole situation from the beginning. Handwritten letters from F.C. Downing to
Leonard concerning the Deed of 4 July 1802 and 13 January 1803.
Letter from Michael C. Larkin, of Downing, Courtney & Larkin, Solicitors, to Sr Rupert [Corkery], 25 February 1987, mentions a bundle of old Deeds and Documents but nowhere among them the basic Lease of 1811 – Earl of Kenmare to Bishop Sugrue.