12 - Certified copy of a document recording the formation and completion of the Lawn Tennis Court by Franciscan Capuchin students at Rochestown, and its deposition in a time capsule

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Certified copy of a document recording the formation and completion of the Lawn Tennis Court by Franciscan Capuchin students at Rochestown, and its deposition in a time capsule

3 pp; manuscript

A certified copy of a historical memorandum deposited on 13 August 1896 within a makeshift time capsule underneath a newly constructed lawn tennis court at the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown, County Cork. The narrative records that a body of Capuchin students initiated construction on 8 April 1895 and completed the project in 1896. Signed by Brother Angelus Healy OFM Cap., the text documents contemporary ecclesiastical, imperial, and civic authorities across both years (including Pope Leo XIII, Queen Victoria, Bishop of Cork Thomas A. O’Callaghan, and successive Mayors of Cork P. H. Meade and Sir John Harley Scott) alongside a register of the eleven participating student friars. Furthermore, the text details the preservation methods used for the original deposit (parchment sealed in a waxed glass bottle, embedded in cement, and protected by an earthenware flowerpot) and provides explicit geometric surveying coordinates to locate the capsule between four wooden corner posts. The document is supplemented by classical maxims in Latin and Greek celebrating labour and industry.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition