Copy of lease

Parties:
(1) The Right Honorable Richard Charles Francis, Earl of Clanwilliam in Ireland and the Most Honorable George William Frederick, Marquis of Ailesbury (the trustees of the last will and testament of the Right Honorable Richard late Viscount Fitzwilliam in Ireland, deceased);
(2) The Right Honorable George Robert Charles, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery;
(3) John Edmond Byrne of Upper Baggot Street in the County of Dublin, grocer.

Property:
All that lot or parcel of ground with the dwelling house and offices now standing thereon situate in the east side of Gilford Road, Sandymount in the Barony of Dublin, in the County of Dublin, bounded on the north-west, west and south-west by Guilford Road and Sandymount Green, and on the north and north-east partly by the holding of James Beckett, partly by the holding of Susan and Louisa Hepenstal and partly by an unleased portion of the Estate of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, together with all the rights, members and appurtenances to the said lot or parcel of ground belonging or in any wise appertaining

Terms and conditions:
George Robert Charles, Earl of Pembroke, the party of the second part, being under the age of twenty-one, the parties of the first part demise, set and to farm-let unto John Edmond Byrne the above property (reserving to said George Robert Charles all manner of mines, minerals and royalties), to have and to hold from 29 September 1869, for and during the term of 150 years, yielding and paying unto George Robert Charles the yearly rents of £95 and £190.0.0; the former sum to be paid during the first three years, and the latter sum to be paid during the remainder of the term. Within the first eighteen months of the said term, Byrne to build and complete in a good and workmanlike manner on the said demised premises fronting to Gilford Road five good and substantial dwelling houses, of the best materials well roofed and covered with slates and best lead not more or less than two stories high and shall enclose the said demised premises with a stone or brick wall within the first twelve months of the said term, and within the first eighteen months of said term to expend the sum of £500.0.0 at least in putting the dwelling house and offices now standing on the premises into a permanent and complete condition of repair.

Other:
Accompanied by a map of the property. Includes a consent dated 28 May 1903, stating that the lessee shall, so long as any of the instalments payable to the Intermediate Education Board on foot of a loan about to be made on the security of the premises shall remain unpaid, use that portion of the said premises now known as the Academical Institution as a boarding school. Also includes a statement of consent dated 7 May 1918 by the Right Honorable Reginald, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, that the yearly rent of one hundred and ninety pounds reserved by the lease shall from 25 March 1918 be abated or reduced by the sum of £65.0.0 per annum.

Lessor:
Bridget Magrath of Port Ryan, County Tipperary

Lessee:
John [Teirnan] of Arranhill, County Tipperary

Property:
Town and lands of Kilibegg and Ballyc[ ] in the Barony of lower Ormond and County of Tipperary, containing one hundred and sixty-three acres and eight perches

Terms and conditions:
The lessor demises, grants, sets and to farm lets unto the lessee the above land at the annual rent of £73.07.00stg for thirty-one years to commence on 25 March, ‘(provided the Lives in the Lease taken of said Lands by Richard Magrath [Gesuit] deceased, from Michael Head late of Derry Esqr. Deceased so long subsist.)’

Other:
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of Richard Vandeleur and Rickard Dardis.

Parties:
James Charles Bacon, Merchant, City of Dublin, Rev. Bernard MacMahon

Property:
Plot of ground containing a chapel on the west side of Hardwicke Street.

Terms & Conditions:
Seven years from 1 November 1814 at a yearly rent of £65.10.0.

Other:
Signed and sealed by both parties.

A file of leases between Thomas O'Reilly and Bridget O'Reilly (nee O'Callaghan) (mother and father of Fr Edmund O'Reilly) and others (farmers) in respect of lands in the Barony of Tulla, County Clare. (See individual leases for further information).

Parties:
Jonathan Goodbody, Charlestown, Kings County and Rev. William Delany, Rector, St. Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Kings County.

Property:
The Derries, 61 acres Irish plantation measure.

Terms & Conditions:
300 years from 29th September 1873. Yearly rent of £70.3.0 to be paid in two even payments on 25 March and 29 September.

Other:
Signed and sealed

Parties:
Rev. Nicholas Walsh SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Rev. Charles McKenna SJ and Rev. John Grene SJ, Milltown Park, county Dublin of the first part and Thomas Healy, Smith, 23 Commons Street, Dublin of the other part.

Property:
No. 22 Commons Street, Parish of St. Thomas, Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
Yearly rent of £16 to be paid in two equal instalments on 1 August and 1 February.

Other:
Signed and sealed

Lessor:
The Reverend John Grene and others

Lessee:
James and Charles Kennedy, Capel Street, Dublin

Property:
Vaults under St. Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin

Terms and Conditions:
Term of fifty years thence next ensuing and fully to be completed and ended determinable nevertheless as hereinafter mentioned yielding and parting therefore yearly and every year during the said term unto the said Lessors their executed admons or assigns the yearly rent of Eighty pounds to be paid by equal half yearly payments on every final day of February and first day of August each year during the term.

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered

Maxwell and Weldon Soliciotrs, 37 North Grrat George Street

Lessor:
Rev. Laurence B. Potter, Rev. Charles Byrne, Rev. Patrick J. Kennedy and Rev. Daniel Roche, all of the Sacred Heart College, The Crescent in the City of Limerick, Members of the Society of Jesus

Lessee:
Michael Doyle of New Street in the City of Limerick, Builder

Property:
Plot of ground with buildings thereon in Newenham Street adjoining Richmond Place or the Crescent in the Parish of Saint Michael and City of Limerick as now and lately in the occupation of the Lessee, bounded in front to the south by O'Connell Street (formerly George Street), on the west by Newenham Street, on the north by the dwelling house no. 18 Newenham Street, and on the east by the Crescent College

Terms and Conditions:
To have and to hold from 1 November 1922 for the term of 99 years, subject to the payment of a yearly rent of 25 pounds. The lessee to execute a sub-lease to the lessors, if they should require it and after their having given 12 months’ notice, for so much of the premises as they (the lessors) may require as a site for a lecture hall.

Lessor:
Rev. Laurence B. Potter, Rev. Charles Byrne, Rev. Patrick J. Kennedy and Rev. Daniel Roche, all of the Sacred Heart College, The Crescent in the City of Limerick, Members of the Society of Jesus

Lessee:
Michael Doyle of New Street in the City of Limerick, Builder

Property:
Plot of ground with buildings thereon in Newenham Street adjoining Richmond Place or the Crescent in the Parish of Saint Michael and City of Limerick as now and lately in the occupation of the Lessee, bounded in front to the south by O’Connell Street (formerly George Street), on the west by Newenham Street, on the north by the dwelling house no. 18 Newenham Street, and on the east by the Crescent College

Terms and Conditions:
To have and to hold from 1 November 1922 for the term of 99 years, subject to the payment of a yearly rent of 25 pounds. The lessee to execute a sub-lease to the lessors, if they should require it and after their having given 12 months’ notice, for so much of the premises as they (the lessors) may require as a site for a lecture hall.

Letter from John J. Dundon, solicitor to Fr John J MacSheahan SJ in the Crescent. Dundon asks that the Crescent records be checked to see if any rent was paid out of a plot of ground at the corner of the Crescent and Newenham Street between 1886 and 1923.
Refers to accompanying letter from James Welply & Sons, solicitors, to John J. Dundon, solicitor (included), which discusses the property in question, referring to various leases made, and to the Jesuits’ interest in it. Leases of 1875 and 1923 (from Alderman P. Hogan and Mary DeCourcy respectively) referred to in the latter letter are not included.

Letters from John Dundon, solicitor - one to Fr Patrick O'Mara SJ of the Crescent College, and one to Michael Doyle - re. the latter's proposal. Refers to a sub-lease of 21 August 1923 (Doylesyard/8-9)

Lessor:
Mary Anderson of the Crescent in the city of Limerick, widow

Lessee:
Richard Hartigan of the Royal George Hotel, O'Connell Street, in the City of Limerick, Gentleman; Peter McCarthy Junior of 38 O'Connell Street, in the City of Limerick, Gentleman; and Hugh O'Brien Moran, of Catherine Street, in the City of Limerick, Solicitor, acting as Trustees for and on behalf of the Ignatian Sodality of the College, Limerick.

Property:
All that and those a plot of ground containing three acres, two roods and ten perches, bounded on the north side by the Railway premises and on the south side by the houses (Mrs Anderson's property) erected on Carey's Road, on the East Side by Mrs Thornhill's holding, and on the west side by the old wall separating the premises in question from the holdings of Samuel Dickson. All of which said demised premises are situate lying and being at Boherbuoy in the Parish of Saint Michael and city of Limerick.

Terms and Conditions:
To have and to hold from 1 August 1911 for the term of 50 years, subject to the payment of a yearly rent of £13 and 5 shillings, and to the condition that the lessees, within the space of 6 months from the date of the execution of the lease, erect or cause to be erected concrete walls to replace the existing two separating the property from the holdings of Mrs Thornhill and Samuel Dickson.

Gives information regarding the details and terms of the lease, including the names of the lessee, and present occupier (Mary Anderson and Peter Maguire respectively); the extent of the property; rent; term of years; and the stipulation that if the property is required 'by the "Railway Co." or other public works, or buildings, the same to be given up & compensation paid for [ ]'.

Material relating to 4 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:

Lease
Lessor: Edmond Henry, Earl of Limerick
Lessee: Robert O'Callaghan Newenham of the city of Limerick
Property: That plot of land in South Priors in the South Liberties in the city of Limerick which measures 25 feet at its front onto Richmond Place, Georges street and from front to rear two hundred feet, which is marked Number 4 on the map.
Terms and Conditions: Land let at an annual rent of £18-10-0 sterling for the lives of Conditions: Robert Newenham and Elizabeth Newenham, children of the lessee, and Reverend William Hoare of the city of Limerick.
Date: 1 April 1809
Size: 1 membrane

Renewal of Lease
Lessor: Edmond Henry, Earl of Limerick
Lessee: Robert O'Callaghan Newenham of the city of Limerick.
Property: Land in South Priors, in the South Liberties, city of Limerick measuring at the front to Richmond Place and Georges Street 25 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet, marked ‘Number 4’ on the map with the original lease of 1809.
Terms and Conditions: In consideration of the payment of the sum of £18-10-0, the lease on the land is renewed for the term of the lives of Elizabeth Newenham, William Hoare and Charles Burton Newenham, the latter life inserted to replace that of Robert Newenham, now deceased.
Date: 1 July 1815
Size: 2pp

Renewal of Lease:
Lessor: Edmund Henry, Earl of Limerick
Lessee: Charles Burton Newenham of the city of Limerick.
Property: That marked Number 4 on the map accompanying the original 1809 lease between Robert O’Callaghan Newenham and the Earl of Limerick, which measures from the front to Richmond Place, Georges Street, 25 feet and from front to rear 200 feet.
Terms and Conditions: In consideration of the sum of £18-2-2 the Earl of Limerick accepts the insertion of the name of Charles Vereker as one of the lives in the lease in the place of the recently deceased Reverend William Hoare. The property is let to Newenham at the annual rent of 17-1-6½ sterling for the term of the lives of the lessee, Eliza Newenham and Charles Vereker.
Date: 3 March 1832
Size: 1p vegetable parchment

Lease
Lessor: William Henry Tennison, Earl of Limerick
Lessee: Theobald Pepper of Lissinisky, county Tipperary.
Property: That marked Number 4 on the map accompanying the original 1809 lease between Robert O'Callaghan Newenham and the Earl of Limerick, which measures from the front to Richmond Place, Georges Street, 25 feet and from front to rear 200 feet.
Terms and Conditions: In consideration of the sum of £21-11-2 paid by Pepper to the Earl of Limerick on the death of Lady Elizabeth Deane, née Newenham, one of the original lives of the lease of this land, the Earl lets the land in perpetuity to Pepper in return for the payment of an annual fee farm rent of £18-7-5.
Date: 20 March 1857
Size: 2pp vegetable parchment

Abstract of by Joseph Murphy Solicitors, 11 Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin. Further abstract of a deed from 1858 between Theobald Pepper and Anne Stone Maunsell, 3pp.

Material relating to the sale of 3 and 4 Newenham Street, Limerick.

May 1907
Copy of negative registry search for acts affecting the lands of the Earl of Limerick undertaken by Barrington and Sons, Solicitors with accompanying explanations.
2 items

[1907]
Two copies of the Abstract of Title of the Right Honourable William Henry Edmond de Vere Sheaffe, Earl of Limerick from 9 October 1761 - 13 May 1907, covering lands in Limerick city and county some of which were leased by the Jesuits.
2 items

June 1907
Particulars of the sale of ‘Lots 2’ and ‘3’ of the Earlof Limerick’s Estate to the Jesuit Fathers negotiated by Stephen Hastings. Includes notice of the public auction, conditions of sale, description of plots and memoranda of payment.
12pp

5 June 1907
Statutory declaration by John Beatty Barrington before Justin McCarthy, Commissioner to Administer Oaths in the Supreme Court in Ireland, regarding his legal role in the sale of land of the estate of the Earl of Limerick.
2pp

19 November 1906-15 July 1907
Apportionment Account of Rent and Interest on ‘Lots 2’ and ‘3’ of the Earl of Limerick’s estate; two receipts for rent from the Reverend Michael Browne of The Crescent, Limerick and the representatives of Richard Russell.
4pp

August 1907- January 1908
File of preparatory material by Stephen Hastings Solicitors, in relation to the conveyance of ‘Lots 2’ and ‘3’ of the Earl of Limerick’s estate to the Jesuit community. Includes drafts of conveyances; schedules of deeds; final costs for solicitor’s work.
13 items

6-19 July 1907
Requisitions of title on behalf of the Jesuit Community for ‘Lots 2’ and ‘3’ of the Earl of Limerick’s Estate drawn up by Stephen Hastings, Solicitors with replies by Barrington and Sons, Solicitors, 10 Ely Place, Dublin 2.
3 items

4 July-4 October 1907
Cases drawn up by Stephen Hastings, 89 Georges Street, Limerick, given to counsel, D.F. Browne, to advise the Jesuit Fathers as to the title of the premises purchased by them from the Earl of Limerick described as ‘Lot 2’ and ‘Lot 3’ respectively.
7 items

29 May 1907-15 November 1907
Correspondence relating to the financial transactions associated with the purchase of the ground rents of ‘Lots 2’ and ‘3’ of the Earl of Limerick’s estate. Includes correspondence between Fr Michael Browne SJ, Rector of The Crescent and the Reverend Fr Assistant Walmesly SJ, and a letter in Italian from Fr General Francis Wernz SJ.
6pp

19 August 1907
Receipts for Water Rates payment by the Jesuit (-31 March 1913) Community of The Crescent, Limerick.
3 items

Conveyance:
Parties: (1) William Henry Edmond de Vere Sheaffe, Earl of Limerick. (2) The Equity Law Life Assurance Society, London. (3) Maximilian George Rooper, 17 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. (4) John Henry Kennedy, Reepham, County Norfolk and Croker Barrington, Fitzwilliam Square, city of Dublin. (5) Reverend Michael Browne, Reverend Patrick Power and Reverend Patrick Tighe, The Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick.
Property: Part of the South Priors Land which now forms part of the Church of the Society of Jesus situate at Richmond Place otherwise the Crescent in the parish of Saint Michael and City of Limerick measuring in front to Richmond Place, 55 feet and from front to rear 200 feet, marked ‘Number 3’ on the map accompanying the 1809 lease.
Conveyance: In consideration of the sum of £850 sterling the fee farm grant to this property £39-9-2 free from all incumbrances is conveyed to Reverend Michael Browne, Reverend Patrick Power and Reverend Patrick Tighe.
Date: 7 November 1907
Size: 3pp vegetable parchment

Conveyance:
Parties: (1) William Henry Edmond de Vere Sheaffe, Earl of Limerick. (2) The Equity Law Life Assurance Society, London. (3) Maximilian George Rooper, 17 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.(5) John Henry Kennedy, Reepham, county Norfolk and Croker Barrington, Fitzwilliam Square, city of Dublin. (5) Reverend Michael Browne, Reverend Patrick Power and Reverend Patrick Tighe, The Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick.
Property: Part of the South Priors Land which now forms part of the Church of the Society of Jesus situate at Richmond Place otherwise the Crescent in the parish of Saint Michael and City of Limerick measuring in front to Richmond Place, 25 feet and from front to rear 200 feet, marked ‘Number 4’ on the map accompanying the 1809 lease.
Conveyance: In consideration of the sum of £400 sterling the fee farm grant to this property free from all incumbrances is conveyed to Reverend Michael Browne, Reverend Patrick Power and Reverend Patrick Tighe.
Date: 7 November 1907
Size: 4pp

20 November 1910
Two schedules of documents relating to the tenancy of Robert Newenham O'Callaghan of plots of land at The Crescent belonging to the Earl of Limerick which subsequently became vested in the Jesuit Fathers.
2 items

1910
Account of moneys advanced by Stephen Hastings, Solicitor, for Bridget Stackpool, the total amounting to £25.
1p

Material relating to 5 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:

Lease
Lessor: Robert O'Callaghan Newenham
Lessee: Robert Maunsell, Trustee for the Society of the Tontine Building of Richmond Place.
Property: A plot of ground part of South Priors Lands in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 5’ on the map containing in front to Richmond Place, Georges street, 75 feet and from front to rere 200 feet
Terms and Conditions: Property let for the term of the lives of George Maunsell, Henry Maunsell and Frederick Maunsell, sons of the lessee, at a yearly rent of £85-6-3. Property is leased by Maunsell as a trustee for the Society of the Tontine Buildings, Richmond Place.
Date: 1 August 1809
Size: 2pp vegetable parchment
Other: Later copy included.

1 August 1811
Original and later copies of the articles of agreement of the charter party of the Tontine Buildings Company, Richmond Place West, in the Liberties in the city of Limerick. The shareholders agree that the company should build three houses at Richmond Place, with their investment of the principal sum of £3500, on the land leased by Robert Maunsell in trust from the Earl of Limerick for this said purpose. Articles further appoint the company directors and secretary and provide a schedule listing nominees for each of the shareholders.
3 items

Assignment:
Parties: (1) Robert George Maunsell and Anne Maunsell, widow (2) John Watson Mahony Esquire
Property: A plot of ground part of South Priors Lands in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 5’ on the map containing in front to Richmond Place, Georges street, 75 feet and from front to rere 200 feet.
Assignment: In consideration of the sum of 10 shillings sterling paid to each of them, Robert George and Anne Maunsell assign the property to John Watson Mahony in trust for the Tontine Building Society.
Date: 6 July 1833
Size: 2 membranes

Copy Fee Farm Grant:
Grantor: William Henry Tennison, Earl of Limerick
Grantee: Thomas Stuart of Combermere, county Cork
Property: All that plot of ground part of South Priors Land in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 5’ on the 1809 map containing in the front to Richmond place, Georges Street, 75 feet and from front to rere 200 feet.
Grant: Property is granted to Stuart in consideration of the payment of £200 and annual fee farm rent of £55-6-9.
Date: 14 February 1859
Size: 5pp

27 April 1870-16 January 1872
Copies of orders to wind up, to appoint the official liquidator, to sell and to vest property in the liquidation of the Tontine Building Company, Richmond Place, Limerick under the terms of the Companies Act of 1862.Orders drawn up by W.M. Beauchamp, 116 Grafton street, Dublin.
4 items

29 April 1872
Sale catalogue for plot of ground and the three dwelling-houses erected thereon at Richmond Place, West (The Crescent), in the city of Limerick issued by William Beauchamp, the solicitor having carriage for the sale.
1 item

22 May 1872
Negative Search for registry deeds affecting the land at South Priors in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick which measures 75 feet at its front onto Richmond Place and 200 feet from front to rear, on which are houses Number 12, 13 and 14. The search, lodged by W.M. Beauchamp, solicitor, 116 Grafton street, Dublin, is for deeds dating from 1809-1872 under the names of Robert O’Callaghan Newenham, Robert Maunsell, John Watson O’Mahony, Robert George Maunsell and Anne Maunsell.
1 item

30 September 1879
Account of costs and payment by Reverend Edward Kelly, Reverend Peter Foley and Reverend Dennis Murphy to John J. Dundon, Solicitor, for work in the period December 1872 to May 1873.
3pp

Copy Fee Farm Grant
Grantor: Thomas Stuart of Combermere, County Cork.
Grantee: John Watson Mahony of George Street, Limerick city.
Property: All that plot of ground part of South Priors Land in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 5’ on the 1809 map containing in the front to Richmond place, Georges Street, 75 feet and from front to rere 200 feet.
Grant: Stuart grants the property to Mahony in consideration for the payment of the annual fee farm rent of £78:15:0.
Date: 23 March 1871
Size: 5pp

Grant
Grantor: Lucy Anne, Marchioness d’Espinassy de Fontanelle of Breton Lodge, Leamington, county Warwick.
Grantee: Mary Frances Champion, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Percival Champion of Combermere in county Cork.
Property: All that plot of ground part of South Priors Land in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 5’ on the 1809 map, containing in the front to Richmond place, Georges Street, 75 feet and from front to rere 200 feet currently leased to John Mahon Mahony. Also all that part of the lands of Gortatoher called Maryfield occupied by John Smith containing 22 acres 1 rood plantation measure situate in the barony of Bunratty, county Clare and a small field containing two acres held by James Nash also in the townland of Gortaloher.
Grant: The property is granted, ‘in consideration of the natural love and affection of the grantor for her sister the grantee and for divers other good considerations’.
Date: 16 December 1890
Size: 4pp vegetable parchment.
Other:Later copy included.

18 September 1876 (12 March 1885)
Will of Thomas Stuart, late of Combermere, Glounthaune, County Cork, retired captain in Her Majesty’s Navy. Stuart bequeaths all his property in Tontines, Limerick and Belvue, County Clare to his wife Lucy Stuart and to his daughter Lucy Anne. Later declaration by Robert Cades Assistant Registrar, Principal Registry, Dublin, notes how letters for the administration of the estate were granted to Stuart’s daughter, Lucy Anne, Marchioness d’Espinassy de Fontanelle of Combermere.
3pp

4 July 1927 - 14 April 1931
Copy of the will and probate of Lucy Anne,Marquise de Fontanelle. The Marquise de Fontanelle appoints herniece, Sybil Champion as trustee. She bequeaths her property to her sister Mary Champion and on the latter’s death, to her nieces Irene Mabel, Lilian and Sybil Champion, Maud Lucy O'Riordan and her grandnephew Stuart O'Riordan. To her sister she leaves in addition her father’s ‘swords and medals’ and to Stuart O'Riordan her father’s ‘gold pin (birds claw holding carbuncle)’.
3pp

1932
Abstract by R.E.Steward, Solicitors, Stroud, England, relating to the Tontine ground rent.
2pp

23 January 1931- 25 February 1933
Correspondence relating to the title to the land on which the Crescent College was built which is owned by the Marquise de Fontanelle. Includes letters from J.J.Dundon, Solicitors, to members of the Jesuit community, Rev. J.J. MacSheahan and Rev. Patrick O’Meara concerning issues such as ground rent.
4 items

23 January 1931-26 January 1933
File of correspondence relating to the sale of the groundrent of ‘Number 5’ Richmond Place, part of the estate of the Marquise of Fontanelle, to the Jesuit community. Includes letters by R.E.Stuart Solicitors, Bedford Street, Stroud Gloucester, acting for the Fontanelle estate, John J. Dundon. Solicitors, representing the Jesuits, J.J. Barrington and Company, Estate Agents and Anderson and Bland Solicitors, 10 Stephen’s Green, Dublin, who were responsible for title searches.
33 items

20 October 1932
Agreement between the Public Trustees Office and Sybil Champion on the one part and Reverend Fergal McGrath and Reverend Michael Browne of Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Reverend Cyril Power of Milltown Park and Reverend James Gubbins of the Sacred Heart College, Limerick, on the other, for the purchase, for the sum of £260, of the ground rent of £73:50 of ‘Number 5’, Richmond Place, Limerick city.
9pp

31 October 1932 - 13 January 1933
Draft and final version of requisitions required by the Jesuit Fathers from trustees for the Sale under the will of the Marquise of Fontanelle on the title to premises at Richmond Place in the parish of Saint Michael, city of Limerick, with annotations by R.E.Stuart, Solicitor; Common searches on the index of names for all acts affecting the land; Schedule of documents handed over by R.E.Stuart per Messrs. Anderson and Bland to John J. Dundon regarding the sale of the Tontine ground rents; Rulings on Titles and Directions for Searches by Anderson Bland solicitors, 10 Stephens’ Green;Extract from the Allocation Schedule from the Court of the Irish Land Commission relating to ‘Number 5’ Richmond place.
4 items

Draft Conveyance:
Vendors: The Public Trustees Office, England, and Sybil Champion of 10 Hauteville Court, Stamford Brook, London.
Purchasers: Reverend Fergal McGrath and Reverend Michael Browne of Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Reverend Cyril Power of Milltown Park and Reverend James Gubbins of the Sacred Heart College, Limerick.
Property: The Ground Rent of £73:50 for the plot of ground part of South Priors Land in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 5’ on the 1809 map containing in the front to Richmond place, Georges Street, 75 feet and from front to rere 200 feet
Terms and Conditions: The ground rent is sold for the sum of £260.
Date: 11 November 1932
Size: 4pp

16 January 1933
Draft and original statutory declaration by Robert Edward Stuart, Bedford Street, Stroud, Gloucester, England, solicitor, in relation to the sale by Sybil Champion of the ground rents of £78-15-0 payable out of part of South Priors Land, now Richmond Place, George’s street, Limerick, to Reverend Fergal McGrath SJ.
3pp

3 February 1933
Application by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, to the Estate Duty Office of the Irish Free State for exemption of the Jesuits from the payment of death duties on ‘Number 5’, Richmond Place following the decease of Lucy Anne, Marquise of Fontanelle.
1 item

25 January 1933
Form completed by R.E. Stuart, Solicitor for the Revenue Commissioners upon the transfer of the fee simple of houses Numbers 12, 13 and 14 Richmond Place from the estate of the Marquise of Fontanelle to named members of the Society of Jesus.
4pp

28 February 1933
Report by John J. Dundon, Solicitors, on the title to property of the Jesuit Fathers on which is built the Sacred Heart Church and College in Limerick.
1 item

Material relating to 6 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:

Copy Lease:
Lessor: Edmund Henry, Earl of Limerick.
Lessee: Robert Newenham O'Callaghan
Property: That plot of ground in South Priors land in South Liberties in the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 6’ on the map, measuring in the front to Richmond Place, Georges Street, 50 feet, from front to rere 200 feet.
Terms and Conditions: Land is let at an annual rent of £37-10-0 for the natural lives of Robert Newenham, son of the lessee, Reverend William Hoare of the city of Limerick and Dean Nash, son of Jagues Nash of Brinny, County Cork.
Date: 1 April 1809
Size: 3pp
Other: Includes copy made in 1923 of original lease.

Fee Farm Grant:
Grantor: William Henry Tennison, Earl of Limerick
Grantee: Robert Keays of the city of Limerick
Property: That plot of ground in South Priors’ land in South Liberties in the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 6’ on the map, measuring in the front to Richmond Place, Georges Street, 50 feet, from front to rear 200 feet.
Grant: Property is granted to Keays in perpetuity upon the payment of the annual fee farm rent of £37-3-2.
Date: 7 September 1857
Size: 5pp
Other: Copy made in 1923 of original grant.

Conveyance:
Parties: (1) David Lynch, Judge of the Landed Estates Court of Ireland. (2) John Quain, General Manager of the Union Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin.
Property: That plot of ground in South Priors’ land in South Liberties in the city of Limerick marked ‘Number 6’ on the map, measuring in the front to Richmond Place, Georges Street, 50 feet, from front to rear 200 feet.

Conveyance: Land is conveyed to John Quain, in consideration of the sum of £430 sterling due to the Union Bank from the estate of Robert Keays. Land continues to be subject to the annual fee farm rent of £37-3-2.
Date: 22 June 1867
Size: 3pp
Other: Schedule of tenants with annual rents due attached. Copy of lease made in 1923.

Copy of lease from John Adamson to David La Touche Junior of piece of ground on the road leading to Milltown, in the County of Dublin, containing 3 roods and 18 perches, at the yearly rent of £6

Daniel Purcell, 58 Dame Street, Dublin.

Parties:
Sir Edward Bellew, Louth and Richard Bellew, county of Clare of the one part and James Cane of the city of Dublin of the other part.

Property:
88 acres of Lands at Milltown, County Dublin

Terms & Conditions:
5s

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.

Parties:
Sir Patrick Bellew, Barmeath, Louth, and Dame Ellinor Bellew to Thomas Fetherstone, Dublin

Property:
Land at Milltown, Dublin containing 88 acres.

Terms & Conditions:
One year, peppercorn rent

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.

And with copy, John Martin, 46 Lower Gardiner Street.

Parties:
James Cane, Dublin to Thomas Fetherstone, Dublin

Property:
88 acres of Lands at Milltown, County Dublin

Terms & Conditions:
5s

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.

Copy of deed of lease of lives renewable forever

Parties:
Mr John Locker, Goldsmith, Dublin to Mr Francis Smith Jeweler, Dublin

Property:
4 acres of land at Milltown, Dublin

Terms & Conditions:
£18

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.

William Roche and Sons. 4 Stephen's green

Material relating to 15 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:

Lease:
Lessor: Mary de Courcy, Drostwich Spa, Worcestershire, England
Lessee: Mary Liddy, 27 Catherine Street, Limerick city.
Property: The plot of ground together with the dwelling houses thereon known as ‘Number 15’ Newenham Street, and the two small houses at the rear thereof, measuring in front facing Newenham Street 21 feet 8 inches and in the rear 52 feet.
Terms and Conditions: Property is let for a term of 99 years at an annual rent of £12.
Date: 31 December 1943
Size: 4pp including map.

29 February 1944
Solemn declaration by Alton S. Murphy of James Murphy and Son Estate Agents O'Connell Street, Limerick relating to the lease, 31 December 1943, between Mary de Courcy and Mary Liddy.
3pp

Draft Assignment:
Parties: (1) Mary Liddy, 27 Catherine street, Limerick city. (2) Reverends Cyril Power of Clongowes Wood College and Fergal McGrath of 35 Leeson Street Lower, Dublin, members of the Society of Jesus.
Property: The plot of ground with the dwelling house thereon known as ‘Number 15’ Newenham Street and the two small houses at the rear thereof.
Assignment: Liddy assigns the property to Reverends Power and McGrath in consideration of the sum of £500 for the residue of the term of 99 years subject to the annual rent of £12.
Date: 22 February 1957
Size: 3pp
Other: Includes two solicitors’ letters on the subject of the assignment.

22 February 1957
List of title deeds relating to the premises at ‘Number 15’ Newenham Street, Limerick prepared by John J. Dundon, Solicitors.
2pp

20 February 1957-27 February 1957
Material relating to the payment of income tax on property purchased by the Jesuit community at The Crescent, Limerick, which had been leased by Mary Liddy.

29 May 1957
List drawn up at The Crescent, Limerick, of title deeds relevant to the purchase by the Jesuit Fathers from Mary Liddy of leasehold interest in Number 15 Newenham Street and two small houses in the laneway at the rear.
2pp

Material relating to 16, 17 and 18 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:

(23 December 1872) 7 August 1889
Copy of probate of the will of Patrick Hogan. In attached copy of will Hogan bequeaths all his property to his wife Mary Hogan. Financial provisions are made for his three daughters in the case of their marriage or entrance to the religious life. 3pp

(9 May 1901)
4 October 1905
Copy of probate of the will of Mary Hogan. In attached copy of will, Hogan bequeaths the property she has inherited from her husband to her children and makes financial bequests to her servant and sister. The property at Newenham street, of later significance to the Jesuit community, is bequeathed to her daughter Mary de Courcy, wife of John Hare de Courcy. 3pp

(12 January 1916)
23 February 1923
Copy of the will of Mary de Courcy of Number 1, The Crescent, Limerick. De Courcy appoints her husband John Hare de Courcy, her daughter, Mary, and her sister Agnes O’Connell Devitt as executors of the will. She bequeaths all her house property and ground rents to her husband if he is still alive at the time of her death with an £200 annuity to her daughter, Mary de Courcy, and a £30 annuity to her sister Agnes O’Connell Devitt. Her daughter will receive all the proceeds from the property in the event of her father’s death. Includes authorisation to make leases on her property for the term of 999 years.
2pp

Draft Lease:
Lessor: Mary de Courcy of Number 1, The Crescent, Limerick city.
Lessees: Reverends Laurence B. Potter, Charles Byrne, Patrick J. Kennedy and Daniel Roche all of the Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick.
Property: Plot of ground adjoining Richmond Place or The Crescent, Limerick, bounded in front to the south by O’Connell street, on the west by Newenham street, on the East by the Crescent College and on the north by the dwelling house ‘Number 18’.
Terms and Conditions: Land let for a term of 999 years at an annual rent of £25.
Date: 22 November 1922
Size: 8pp
Other: Two covering letters from Mary de Courcy’s solicitor, Edward D. Hunt to John J. Dundon, solicitor to the lessees.

13 February -23 June 1930
Two letters in Irish from William Byrne relating to Jesuit property in Limerick. English translation of letter relating to ‘Doyle’s yard’, a house at the corner of The Crescent, leased from Mary de Courcy by the Jesuit community and sublet by them to Mr. Boyle.
3 items

July 1945
Material relating to the construction of the new Jesuit College, The Crescent, Limerick, in relation to ‘Number 18’, Newenham street owned by Mary de Courcy including plan by Patrick J. Sheahan, architect and correspondence relating to conditions set out in Memorandum of Agreement:
4 items

Memorandum of Agreement:
Grantor: Mary de Courcy, Corbett House, Worcestershire, England.
Grantees: Reverend Charles Byrne of Belvedere College, Dublin, Reverend Patrick J. Kennedy of 35 Leeson Street Lower, Dublin and Reverend Daniel Roche of Crescent College, Limerick.
Agreement: In consideration of the sum of £50 sterling, De Courcy agrees to allow for the construction of the new college building, including construction of a manhole and gutters, which is adjacent to her property at Newenham street, Limerick.
Date: 20 February 1946
Size: 2 items
Other: Earlier draft of agreement included.

16 November 1942
Letter to Fr Redmond F. Roche, Rector, The Crescent, from Edward Treacy of Dundon and Treacy, Solicitors, regarding the possible sale to the Society of Jesus of ‘Numbers 16, 17 and 18’, Newenham Street, the property of Mary de Courcy.
3pp

3 June 1950
Letter to Reverend Thomas Mulcahy from John Dundon and Son, Solicitors, concerning the tenancy agreements on ‘Numbers 16, 17 and 18’, Newenham Street.
1p

27 July 1950
Requisitions on the title to particular property of Mary de Courcy intended for purchase by Reverend Fergal McGrath and Reverend Cyril Power, representatives of the Society of Jesus.
4pp

Copy Sub-Fee Farm Grant:
Grantor: Mary de Courcy of 98 O’Connell street, Limerick.
Grantee: Reverend Fergal McGrath and Reverend Cyril Power of the Society of Jesus Property: All that and those dwelling houses known as Numbers 16, 17 and 18 Newenham Street, Limerick.
Grant: The property is granted by de Courcy to Reverend McGrath and Reverend Power in consideration of the sum of £2800 and the payment of the annual fee farm rent of £34-14-10.
Date: 8 September 1950
Size: 4pp
Other: Map included.

Copy Conveyance:
Parties: (1) John Quain of College Green, Dublin city, stock and share broker. (2) Thomas Revington of Ardhu House, county Limerick.
Property: Plot of South Priors Land formerly in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick measuring in front to Richmond Place, George street 50 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet and also certain houses and premises in Newenham street and Henry street and a plot of land in Henry street, measuring 40 feet 5 inches in front and from front to rear 90 feet.
Conveyance: Land is conveyed to Revington in consideration of the sum of £770 sterling.
Date: 29 October 1868.
Size: 4pp

Copy Conveyance:
Parties: (1) Thomas Revington of Ardhu House, county Limerick. (2) Patrick Hogan, alderman of Limerick
Property: Plot of South Priors Land formerly in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick measuring in front to Richmond Place, George street 50 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet and also certain houses and premises in Newenham street and Henry street and a plot of land in Henry street, measuring 40 feet 5 inches in front and from front to rear 90 feet.
Conveyance: Property is conveyed by Revington to Hogan in consideration of the sum of £867.
Date: 28 March 1872
Size: 5pp

Lease:
Lessor: Patrick Hogan alderman of the city of Limerick.
Lessees: Reverend William Ronan, Reverend Denis Murphy and Reverend Isaac Moore of The Crescent, Limerick.
Property: Plot of South Priors Land formerly in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick measuring in front to Richmond Place, George street 50 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet and also certain houses and premises in Newenham street and Henry street and a plot of land in Henry street, measuring 40 feet 5 inches in front and from front to rear 90 feet.
Terms and Conditions: Land let for ever for an annual rent of £20.
Date: 18 November 1875
Size: 5pp
Other: Includes later typed copy of lease.

Lease:
Lessor: Patrick Hogan of the city of Limerick, merchant.
Lessee: Reverend William Ronan, Reverend Dennis Murphy and Reverend Isaac Moore all of The Crescent, Limerick city.
Property: Plot of South Priors Land formerly in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick measuring in front to Richmond Place, George street 50 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet and also certain houses and premises in Newenham street and Henry street in the city of Limerick.
Terms and Conditions: Property granted in perpetuity at an annual rent of £20.
Date: 18 November 1875
Size: 4pp
Other: Map of the property included.

Lease:
Lessor: James Rowand Wallace of number 3 Quinlan street in the city of Limerick.
Lessee: Reverend Timothy O'Keefe SJ, Rector of the Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick.
Property: The field or plot of ground adjoining the residence of the lessor at number 3 Quinlan street, in the parish of Saint Michael in the city of Limerick.
Terms and Conditions: Property let for the term of five years at an annual rent of £7-10 sterling to be paid in two even and equal instalments.
Date: 29 August 1889
Size: 4pp

4 November 1953
Letter to Reverend Fr Robert Tyndall, Rector, The Crescent from John J. Dundon solicitors concerning the ground rent for land containing the Crescent Tennis Courts.
1p

Copy Lease:
Lessor: Mary Anderson of the Crescent Limerick
Lessee: Richard Hartigan, Peter McCarthy and Hugh O’Brien Moran, trustees of the Ignatian Sodality of The Crescent College, Limerick.
Property: Plot of land containing 3 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches in Boherbuoy in the parish of Saint Michael, city of Limerick.
Terms and Conditions: Property let for 50 years at an annual rent of £13-5-0.
Date: 11 August 1911
Size: 4pp

11 May - 7 December 1920
Two letters by John J. Dundon solicitors relating to the plot of land known as ‘The Crescent Field’, the first a query relating to its legal status, the second addressed to Rev. L.B. Potter S.J., Rector of the Crescent, regarding its sale.
2 items

1915
Agreement made between The Great Southern and Western Railway Company and Richard Hartigan, Peter McCarthy and Hugh O’Brien Moran, acting as trustees for the Ignatian Sodality the Crescent College Limerick, relating to the insertion of a gateway in land leased to the Sodality which is adjacent to the Limerick Railway terminus.
4pp and map

14 May-10 September 1920
Letter to B. Kelly, 66 Careysfort Avenue, Blackrock, county Dublin, from John J. Dundon, solicitor, concerning the sale of land in Limerick by the Ignatian Sodality to members of the Society of Jesus; Proposal and authorisation by a special meeting of the Ignatian Sodality for the sale.
3 items

Assignment:
Parties: (1) Richard Hartigan, Peter McCarthy and Hugh O’Brien Moran (2) Reverend Lawrence B. Potter, Reverend Jerome C. O'Mahony, Reverend Patrick J. Kennedy and Reverend Charles Byrne.
Property: A plot of ground once owned by Mary Anderson measuring 3 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches which bounded in the north side by the Railway premises.
Assignment: In consideration of the sum of £800, Hartigan, McCarthy and O’Brien Moran assign the property to the members of the Jesuit community.
Date: 4 December 1920
Size: 4pp

1942
Ground plan for the Compulsory Purchase Order of the Carey’s Road Area in the County Borough of Limerick.
1 item

22 October 1945-5 December 1947
File relating to the Compulsory Purchase Order of part of The Crescent playing field near the railway by Coras Iompair Eireann, the Irish bus company, which was leased to the Jesuits by Rose Ellen Pearse for a period of 50 years from 1911 onwards. Includes correspondence between Dundon and Treacy, Solicitors, Limerick, and the Reverend Redmond Roche, Rector of the Crescent College, estimates of the existing value of the property and opinions of counsel relating to the legal status of the land.
12 items

26 August 1952 - 11 May 1956
Material relating to the compulsory purchase order of part of the playing field leased by the Jesuits from Nellie Pearse in the Carey’s Road Area by Limerick Corporation. Includes letters concerning details of the order from John J. Dundon, solicitor.
12 items

7 July 1960
Land registry map of the playing field at Rosbrien, with registered owners Reverend Fergal McGrath and Reverend Cyril Power.

27 October 1870-12 April 1893
Will and probate of William Ryan of Newenham Street, city of Limerick. Ryan grants the administration of his estate to his brother Matthew and bequeaths his assets to be shared equally among his children.
3 items

26 November 1892
Letter to ‘Mr. Murphy’ from Fr Thomas Kelly SJ, Gardiner Street, Dublin, containing some legal instructions regarding the assignment of Dan Doyle’s lands in trust to individual Jesuits.
2pp

Lease:
Lessors: Reverend Laurence B. Potter, Reverend Charles Byrne, Reverend Patrick J. Kennedy and Reverend Daniel Roche, Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick.
Lessee: Michael Doyle of New Street, Limerick city.
Property: Piece of ground in Newenham street adjoining Richmond place or The Crescent in the parish of Saint Michael in Limerick city now or lately in the occupation of the lessee.
Terms and Conditions: Term of 99 years at an annual rent of £25.
Date: 21 August 1923
Size: 4pp

1940
Draft assignment by Reverend Charles Byrne of Belvedere College, Reverend Patrick J.Kennedy of Lower Leeson Street, Dublin and Reverend Daniel Roche of the Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick of Reverend Fergal McGrath, Reverend Michael Browne, Reverend James Gubbins and Reverend Cyril Power as new trustees to that piece of land in Newenham street, Limerick, which was lately in the possession of Michael Doyle, builder and contractor.
2pp

6 January 1913
Letter and response to query to Fr Stanislaus MacLoughlin of the Jesuit Community, The Crescent, Limerick, from James Rogers Solicitors relating to the tenancy of Peter Maguire, now deceased, on Jesuit land.
2 items

22-24 February 1963
Two letters to Fr Frank Finegan SJ from Fr Stephen Bates and Fr Francis Joy respectively concerning a court case involving the purchase of houses by the Jesuit community at the Crescent.
9pp

Material relating to 7 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:

Lease:
Lessor: Robert O'Callaghan Newenham
Lessee: Michael Rochford
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane.
Terms and Conditions: Land let for the term of the lives of Michael Rochford, Patrick Rochford and Paul Rochford, nephews of the lessee at an annual rent of £28-8-9.
Date: 21 May 1813
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.

Lease:
Lessor: Michael Rochford, merchant, city of Limerick.
Lessee: Reverend William Deane Hoare, clerk, of the suburbs of the city of Limerick.
Property: The dwelling house in Richmond Place lately built by the lessor and now in the possession of the lessee together with the yard, offices, vaults, areas and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
Terms and Conditions: In consideration of the sum of £113-5-0 sterling the house is to be let for the lives of Deane Wallace Hoare, Charles Burton Hoare and Edward Hoare, at a yearly rent of £100 sterling to be paid in two even and equal instalments.
Date: 25 July 1814
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.

Surrender:
Parties: (1) Reverend William Deane Hoare, clerk, of the suburbs of the city of Limerick. (2) George Maunsell, John Kennedy and Robert H. Maunsell in the estate of Michael Rochford is now vested.
Property: The dwelling house in Richmond Place built by Michel Rochford, which was leased to William Hoare in 1814 together with the yard, offices, vaults, areas and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
Surrender: Hoare surrenders the property back to the trustees of the estate of Michael Rochford in accordance with the terms of his lease of 1814.
Date: 1 May 1819
Size: 3pp
Other: Later copy included.

Assignment:
Parties: (1) Robert Maunsell, Joseph Fisher and Richard Nugent. (2) Daniel Gabbett. (3) Robert George Maunsell
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors’ Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rere by a stable lane.
Assignment:Maunsell, Fisher and Nugent with the approbation of Daniel Gabbett assign the lease of the property to Robert George Maunsell in consideration of the sum of £650 sterling paid to them.
Date: 16 August 1821
Size: 2 membranes
Other: Later copy assignment included.

Renewal Lease:
Lessor: Charles Burton Newenham of the city of Cork, solicitor.
Lessee: Robert George Maunsell of the city of Limerick.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors’ Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane.
Terms and Conditions: In consideration of the payment of the renewal fine of £13-2, Newenham inserts the life of George Maunsell in the place of that of Michael Rochford, deceased, who was one of the lives originally let for this land in 1813. Land is let at a yearly rent of £25-6 sterling.
Date: 3 September 1836
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.

25 May 1836; (13 March 1838)
Copy of the last will and testament of Robert George Maunsell. The house at Richmond place is bequeathed to his wife Maria, and on her death to his children, daughters, Anne, Louisa, Maria, Georgina, Mabella, Emma, Eliza and sons Standish Grady and George. His eldest son Robert is bequeathed all his other landed property. He is to distribute the charges on his estate among his wife, younger sons and daughters. He appoints Henry Maunsell and Robert Thomas Maunsell executors. The codicil makes provisions for a further son and daughter, John Minton and Martha Sophia Edith Maunsell.
5pp

Assignment:
Parties: (1) Maria Maunsell, widow of Robert George Maunsell, and children John Minton Maunsell and Martha Sophia Edith Maunsell. (2) Anne Stone Maunsell, Louisa Emma Maunsell, Maria Maunsell the younger and Robert Thomas Maunsell
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rere by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Assignment: Maria Maunsell the elder acting also on behalf of her youngest children John and Martha assigns the property to her elder children on condition that they pay her an annuity of £50.
Date: 8 October 1842
Size: 3 membranes
Other: Later copy included.

Fee Farm Grant:
Grantor: Anne Stone Maunsell, spinster.
Grantees: The Honourable Lewis Alexander Grant and Georgina Grant otherwise Maunsell, his wife, Mabella Maunsell, Emma Maunsell, Eliza Maunsell, Standish Grady Maunsell, George Maunsell.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet, in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Grant: The property is granted by Anne Stone Maunsell to the grantees on condition of payment in two even and equal instalments of an annual fee farm rent of £27-7-5 sterling.
Date: 21 June 1858
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.

14 July 1864
Search for acts affecting the house and premises at Richmond Place, Newtown Perry, in the parish of Saint Michael, Limerick city, by Robert George Maunsell, The Honourable Lewis Alexander Grant and Georgina Grant, otherwise Maunsell, his wife, Mabella Maunsell, Emma Maunsell, Eliza Maunsell, Standish O’Grady Maunsell and George Maunsell, for Joseph Murphy. Search consists of the abstracts of nine deeds dated 1838-1862.
2pp

25 July 1864
Search for judgements and bonds against Robert George Maunsell from 1844-1864. The search does not yield any results according to the registrar for judgements W.H.Scrivner.
2pp

Assignment:
Parties: (1) The Honourable Lewis Alexander Grant and Georgina Grant otherwise Maunsell, his wife, Anne Stone Maunsell, Mabella Maunsell, Emma Maunsell, Reverend Thomas Henry Gollock and his wife Eliza Gollock, otherwise Maunsell, Standish Grady Maunsell, and George Maunsell. (2) Reverend Thomas Kelly, Roman Catholic Clergyman, of the city of Limerick.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Assignment: The property is assigned by Lewis Alexander Grant and others to Reverend Thomas Kelly in consideration of the sum of £700 sterling and the payment of an annual fee farm rent of £27-7-5.
Date: 26 August 1864
Size: 2 membranes
Other: Copy included.

22 September-3 November 1864
Copies of affidavits by Eliza Grace Gollock and Georgina Grant, acknowledging assignment (26 August 1864) in which they give up their interest in the property at Richmond place, Limerick, with accompanying certificates issued by various Commissioners of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland.
2 items

18 August 1864
Acknowledgement by Louisa, Countess of Seafield, nee Maunsell, and her husband Lord Henry Loftus that they have no claim whatsoever on the house at Richmond Place, in the parish of Saint Michael, Limerick, formerly owned by Louisa’s father, Robert George Maunsell.
1p

Deed of Trust:
Parties: (1) Reverend Thomas Kelly, upper Gardiner street, city of Dublin. (2) Reverend Edward Kelly, Reverend Peter Foley and Reverend Denis Murphy of the Crescent, city of Limerick.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors’ Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rere by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Trust: Reverend Thomas Kelly grants this property to Reverends Kelly, Foley and Murphy in consideration of the sum of 5 shillings paid to him.
Date: 23 December 1872
Size: 3 items
Other: Earlier draft copy included with the opinion thereon of L. M. Porter

1885
Schedule of the deeds and documents relating to premises situate at Richmond Place, the Crescent, Limerick belonging to the Jesuit order drawn up by Francis A. O'Keefe solicitors, 101 George street, Limerick; List of title deeds connected with property belonging to Robert George Maunsell, Richmond Place, Limerick.
2 items

Copy of lease of parts of the lands of Kilmactalway, between Richard Cooke and Edward Avery, city of Dublin and James Dease, Turbardstown, County Westmeath, re: 120 acres at Kilmactalway, Barony of Newcastle, Dublin.

John Martin, 46 Lower Gardiner Street

Parties:
Frances Wall, York Street in the city of Dublin, Spinster of the one part and Thomas Wall, Milltown near Kilmactalway in the county of Dublin in the city of Dublin.

Property:
Lands at Milltown in the county of Dublin containing sixty acres.

Terms and Conditions:
The full term of thirty-one years at yearly rent of seventy-five pounds sterling.

Other:
Signed and sealed

1945
List typed by Fr John Barragry SJ, of Title Deeds and documents regarding the property of Jesuit Fathers deposited in National Bank, O’Connell Street, Limerick. 18pp;

nd.
Draft abstract of title to property at The Crescent, Limerick from 1813-1847 which was later the residence of the Jesuit community. 2 items;

12 October 1944; June 1958
Record of deeds of the Jesuit Community in Limerick lodged at the Limerick branch of the National Bank. 2 items;

15 August 1945
Some notes on the contents of deeds and documents regarding property compiled by Fr William Byrne SJ. 7pp;

June 1958
Open letter from Fr John Barraghy SJ, explaining the history of how particular deeds relating to the ‘Harris gift’ came into the possession of the Sacred Heart College. 1p.

Parties:
Joseph, Earl of Milltown of the one part and the Honorable Denis George, Dublin, Fourth Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland of the other part.

Property:
Renewal of parts of lands of Milltown, County Dublin

Terms and Conditions:
£20

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.

Parties:
John Staunton Rochfort, County Carlow and James John Bagot, Castle Bagot, County Dublin

Property:
21 acres, 1 rood and 19 perches, part of land at Milltown or Baldonnel, County Dublin (estate of Thomas Wall)

Terms and Conditions:
£64 2d 3s per annum for 31 years years

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.

Map of lands referred to in lease near Castle Bagot and Milltown, County Dublin, by Sherrard Brassington and Greene, 1825.

Parties:
Joseph, Earl of Milltown of the one part and the Richard Connery of the other part.

Property:
12 acres formerly belonging to William Doyle, Milltown, County Dublin

Terms and Conditions:
£19 4d

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.

Material relating to 3 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:

Lease
Lessor: Edmond Henry, Earl of Limerick
Lessee: Robert O'Callaghan Newenham of the city of Limerick
Property: Land in South Priors, in the South Liberties, city of Limerick measuring at the front to Richmond Place and Georges Street 55 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet, which was marked ‘Number 3’ on the map originally accompanying this lease.
Terms and Conditions: Land let at an annual rent of £40 Irish currency for the lives of Robert Newenham and Elizabeth Newenham, children of the lessee, and Reverend William Hoare of the city of Limerick.
Date: 1 April 1809
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.

Lease:
Lessor: Edmond Henry, Earl of Limerick
Lessee: Robert O'Callaghan Newenham of the city of Limerick.
Property: Land in South Priors, in the South Liberties, city of Limerick measuring at the front to Richmond Place and Georges Street 55 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet, which was marked ‘Number 3’ on the map accompanying the lease of 1809.
Terms and Conditions: The lease on the land is renewed for the term of the lives of Elizabeth Newenham, William Hoare and Charles Burton Newenham at an annual rent of £40 Irish currency.
Date: 1 July 1815
Size: 2pp

Conveyance
Parties: (1) Mountifort Longfield and Charles James Hargreave, two of the Commissioners for the Sale of Encumbered Estates in Ireland. (2) Richard Russell of the city of Limerick.
Property: Land in South Priors, in the South Liberties, city of Limerick measuring at the front to Richmond Place and Georges Street 55 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet, which was marked ‘Number 3’ on the map originally accompanying the lease of 1809.
Conveyance: The lease for this land is conveyed to Richard Russell in consideration of the sum of £255 paid into the Commissioners account in the matter of the estate of Francis Begley, assignee of the estate of Philip William Russell, deceased owner, and Elizabeth Sayers, petitioner.
Date: 22 November 1851
Size: 1p vegetable parchment

Fee Farm Grant
Grantor: William Henry Tennison, Earl of Limerick
Grantee: Richard Russell of the city of Limerick
Property: Land in South Priors, in the South Liberties, city of Limerick measuring at the front to Richmond Place and Georges Street 55 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet which was marked ‘Number 3’ on the map accompanying the lease of 1809.
Grant: The land is granted by Tennison to Russell in perpetuity in consideration of the payment of annual rent amounting to £36-18-6.
Date: 25 September 1855
Size: 2 items
Other: Original and counterpart of the grant.

Conveyance
Parties: (1) Richard Russell of the city of Limerick (2) Very Reverend Joseph Lentaigne, Reverend Edmond Joseph O'Reilly, Reverend Edward Kelly.
Property: Land in South Priors, in the South Liberties, city of Limerick measuring at the front to Richmond Place and Georges Street 55 feet, and from front to rear 200 feet, together with the large mansion house and offices erected thereon, marked ‘Number 3’ on the map accompanying the lease of 1809.
Conveyance: Property is conveyed by Russell to the Jesuit clergymen in consideration of the sum of £3,500. Land remains subject to the payment of the annual fee farm grant of £36-18-6.
Date: 31 December 1861
Size: 3pp

Copy of statement by Richard Russell to the Reverend Joseph Lentaigne and the Reverend Edmund J. O'Reilly that following the agreement of 10 December 1860 he will surrender the mansion house and property at Richmond place which he now occupies to the Jesuits on 1 May 1862, 2pp (31 December 1861).

Obsolete lease.

Parties:
Rev. Michael O'Grady SJ, Rev. Edward J. Coyne SJ, Rev. Edward Hannigan SJ, Rev. Kevin Smyth SJ and Fr Joseph Erraught SJ, Milltown Park of the first part and Rev. Michael O'Grady SJ, Rev. Edward J. Coyne SJ, Rev. Edward Hannigan SJ and Rev. Kevin Smyth SJ of the other part.

Property:
Sandford Cottage, Parish of St Peter, Barony of Upper Cross

Terms and Conditions:
5 Years from 1 June 1951 at a yearly rent of £250.

Other:
Map of land by Raymond Kavangh, architect (16 April 1951). Signed and sealed

1. lease on the part of lands at Milltown Park, County Dublin between Francis Hodgkinson, Doctor of Laws and Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin and George Fitz James Russell Esq. Includes sketch of land (1 membrane, 6 December 1836), and copy of lease (1a);
2. deed of conveyance between Acheson Lyle, George Fitzharris Russell, Francis Blackburne and Edward Harder (2 membranes, 21 November 1848);
3. administration of the personal estate and effects of Jane Webb (1 membrane and 1 document with seal, 29 July 1895);
4. probate of the last will and testament and one codicil of Mary Jane Webb (1 membrane and 1 document with seal, 20 July 1895);
5. probate of the last will and testament of John Webb (1 membrane and 1 document, 25 May 1878);
6. mortgage of premises at Milltown, Dublin between Mrs Jane W. Lester to Harriett A. Moore (2 membranes, 14 October 1896);
7. second mortgage of premises at Milltown, Dublin between Mrs Jane W. Lester to William Collinson (2 membranes, 24 May 1898);
8. reconveyance of mortgage of premises at Milltown, Dublin between Harriett A. Moore and Alice Moore, William Collinson and Jane W. Lester (2 membranes, 17 December 1900);
9. mortgage of premises at Milltown, Dublin (Swiss Cottage), Mrs Jane W. Lester to Mrs Lizzie A. Kenny (5 membranes, 27 December 1900);
10. declaration of borrower Jane W. Lester to Kenny, which includes sketch of land (2pp, 28 November 1900);
11. assignment between Mrs Lizzie A. Kenny to Rev.d Thomas Wheeler SJ and others (3 membranes, 27 December 1900, and copy October 1902);
12. mortgage of premises at Milltown, Dublin, Jane W. Lester to F. H. G. Wilson (3pp, 29 July 1902);
13. surrender of mortgage of premises at Milltown, Dublin, Frederick H. G. Wilson to Jane W. Lester (3pp, 3 December 1902);
14. declaration of Jane W. Lester (2pp, 28 August 1902);
15. declaration of Jane W. Lester to Kenny (1p, 5 January 1901);
16. grant of administration Richard Blackburne Webb, 1872 (1p, 12 April 1902);
17. grant of administration Rev Frances Webb, 1870 (1p, 12 April 1902);
18. will of Richard Blackburne Webb, 1872 (1p, 10 May 1902);
19. letter indicating no outstanding charge for duty under the will of Mary Jane Webb (1p, 19 November 1895);
20. declaration re premises at Milltown, Dublin, Harriett Moore and Alice Moore (1p, 15 January 1901);
21. common search at Registry of Deeds, from 1848 until 1901, premises at Milltown, Dublin (2pp, 30 June 1902);
22. abstract of title to premises Swiss Cottage, Milltown, Dublin (10pp, 1 January 1906).

Property issues regarding the Jesuit community, Milltown Park and the Irish School of Ecumenics including correspondence with John J McDonald & Co., Solicitors, lease and rental agreements, steering committee correspondence, architectural plans and alterations by Robinson, Keefe and Devane for Tabor House.

Includes rent by the Irish School of Ecumenics move to TCD.

Parties:
Frs John Hannon SJ, Stephen Brown SJ and Patrick Gannon SJ to Frs Edward J Coyne SJ, Edward Hannigan SJ, Michael O'Grady SJ, Kevin Smyth SJ and Joseph Erraught SJ.

Property:
Lands at Milltown, County Dublin

Terms & Conditions:

Other:
Signed, sealed and delivered.
John J McDonald

Lessor:
Marinus Jacobus Kennedy, City of Dublin, Esquire

Lessee:
George Murphy, City of Dublin, Merchant

Property:
Backlane in the said City of Dublin containing in Front to the Kings pavement in Backlane afores[ai]d twenty feet six Inches and one hundred and thirteen feet in the reare backwards from the s[ai]d Front to the City wall all which premises were formerly set by Lease.

Terms and Conditions:
In consideration of the sum of thirty-three pounds to be paid by two even and equal payments for a term of thirty-one years.

Other:
Signed and Sealed.

Lessor:
John Duffy, City of Dublin, Merchant

Lessee:
Bartholomew Byrne, City of Dublin, Grocer

Property:
House tenement and premises situated in Backlane in the said City of Dublin wherein the said John Duffy now dwells containing in Front to the Backlane aforesaid twenty five feet and one hundred and thirteen feet or thereabouts in the rere backwards from the said front to the City Wall and also use if the Passage through or between the twofront Houses adjoining the said demised premises.

Terms and Conditions:
In consideration of the sum of a covenant of £100 paid by Bartholomew Byrne to John Duffy. Term of forty-nine years from the first day of March which will be in the year of our Lord 1790 for the yearly sum of forty-eight pounds sterling paid by two even and equal half yearly payments.

Other:
Signed and Sealed

Parties:
(1) Thomas Sharkey, Backlane, City of Dublin, Linnen Draper, (2) John Ormston, Ushers Island, City of Dublin, Merch[an]t, (3) John Duffy

Property:
Backlane in the said City of Dublin containing in Front to the Kings pavement in Backlane aforesaid twenty feet six inches and one hundred and thirteen feet in the rere Backwards from the said front the City Wall all which premises were formerly set by Lease.

Assignment:
From the first day of March then Instant for the Term of Thirty one years from thence next ensuing to the fully Compleat and Ended at the yearly Rent of Thirty three pounds Sterling payable half yearly on the first day of September and the first day of March.

Other:
Includes receipt of sum of Seventy-nine pounds Sixteen Shillings and one penny. Signed and Sealed.

Lessor:
Thomas Kennedy, City of Dublin, Esquire, Walter Kennedy, City of Dublin, Esquire

Lessee:
John Duffy, City of Dublin, Merchant

Property:
House tenement and premises situated in Backlane in the said City of Dublin containing in Front to the Kings Pavement in Backlane aforesaid twenty five feet six inches and one hundred and thirteen feet in the reare backwards from the said front of the City Wall and also use if the Passage through or between the two front Houses adjoining the said demised premises.

Terms and Conditions:
Term of forty-six years from the first day of March which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four for the yearly rent of sum of thirty-three pounds sterling.

Other:
Signed and Sealed

Lessor:
George Murphy, City of Dublin, Tobacconist

Lessee:
John Duffy, Back Lane, City of Dublin, Draper

Property:
All that and those the Front or Street Dwelling house together with the severall Back houses behind the same William Pattison late of the said City of Dublin Leather Seller lately Dwels situate lying & being on the south side of Back Lane within the said City bounded on the West by Tho[mas] Maguire's holding on the East by William Stuarts holding on the South by the Town Wall and on the North by Back Lane aforesaid.

Terms and Conditions
In consideration of the sum of forty-seven pounds to be paid by four even an equal quarter payments for a term of twenty years.

Other:
Includes the schedule to which the annex[e]d lease referrs. Signed and Sealed

Mortgagee:
Joseph Elwood, Hatter and Ann Elwood, wife, 13 Westmoreland Street, City of Dublin

Mortgagor:
Cornelius Duffy, City of Dublin, Merchant, Robert Howes, City of Dublin, Attorney at Law

Property:
All that and Those that Lot of Ground with the Dwelling House and Offices then lately erected and built therein situate lying and being on the West side of Westmoreland street in the County of the City of Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
By Virtue of the Covenant for perpetual renewal of the said Release contained subject of the yearly rent of One hundred and thirty pounds sterling.

Other:
Signed and Sealed

Lessor:
Denis Kelly, late of Castle Kelly, County Galway, now City of Bath, Esquire

Lessee:
Cornelius Kelly, City of Dublin, Gentleman

Property:
In consideration of the Rents and Covenants and that and those the North West Division of Cloonescarbery containing by estimation twenty four Acres three Roods Irish plantation measure the same more or less together with the Bog thereunto.

Terms and Conditions:
During the first four years of the said term the Rent or Sum of £12 7d 6s sterling and yearly and every year afterwards during the Remainder of the said Term the Rent or sum £14 17d sterling.

Other:
Signed and Sealed