Item 1 - Lease of William Gerald Bagot to Fr. Patrick Corcoran

2 pp; Manuscript

Lease of William Gerald Bagot, Castle Bagot, County Dublin, to Fr. Patrick Corcoran OSFC, Church Street Chapel, of a plot of ground with the Charity School thereon for the life of the lessee or 41 years at the yearly rent of £9 2s 0d. The plot is situated ‘on the north side of the passage which is between Bow Street and the yard of the Chapel in Church Street … together with the house or tenement lately erected … called and known by the name of the Charity School the lower apartment of which is now occupied and used as and for the Charity School of the said Chapel, and the two upper apartments of which are now in the occupation of the said Reverend Patrick Corcoran or other clergymen of the Chapel’. The plot is bounded to the west by a ‘Charitable Penitentiary Asylum’.

The document in very badly torn. Careful manual handling is required.