Item 21 - Schedule and Summary of Title Deeds Regarding Capuchin Properties in Cork City and Rochestown

4 pp; typescript

A schedule compiling legal abstracts and summaries of historical title deeds, long-term leases, and land transfers for real estate assets held by the Capuchin Franciscan community in County Cork, which were deposited with their solicitors, Messrs. J.C. and A. Blake. The document details property dimensions, ground rents, and contracting parties across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mapping out urban premises in Cork city’s Holy Trinity Parish alongside extensive rural holdings in Rochestown. The record tracks historical transactions, including an 1875 lease of stores and offices on Charlotte Quay and an 1873 lease of timber land in Rochestown granted to foreign Capuchin friars (such as Father Cherubini Mazzini, Father Louis Pellicetti, and Father Bernard Precious) as well as a 1832 lease on Morrisons Island granted to the temperance leader Father Theobald Mathew.

The schedule further documents properties at No. 24, South Mall, historic 18th-century tenancies on Red Abbey Marsh where one Sober Kent once resided, cellar yards on Red Abbey Island, and a 1762 tract of land known as ‘Island Nagay’ in the south suburbs of Cork city. The final pages outline complicated urban easements involving a 16-foot-wide passage connecting the Assembly Rooms to Queen Street, stable and residential properties at No. 13, Queen Street, and a 1863 lease from Ellen Maria Harris Purcell for 55 acres of agricultural land and dwellings in Rochestown that was later secured in fee simple.