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- 1782-1999 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
10 standard boxes and 1 outsize box
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Biographical history
In 1945 Michael Allott of Dublin married Helen Lucia Lloyd of Odellville, county Limerick. On the death of her father, Edward Locke Lloyd, in 1963, the Odellville property passed to the Allotts, who operated a dairy farm on the estate and were founders of the Munster Herd of British Friesians in 1945. They were also active members of the National Farmers’ Association (later the Irish Farmers Association), their local co-operative creamery committee at Glenwilliam and later the Golden Vale Cooperative Creamery Ltd.
The Allott family seat, Odellville, was built in the 1770s by John Fitzcharles Odell and passed to the Morony family through the marriage of Helen Mary Odell to Edmund Morony in 1860. Their elder daughter, Eliza Helena, married in 1884 her cousin, Henry Vereker Lloyd Morony, on whose death the property passed to his only child, Helen Mary Matilda Morony. The property passed to the Lloyd family through her marriage to Edward Locke Lloyd of Heathfield, county Limerick, in 1917.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Most of the material was donated to the University of Limerick on 10 December 2008 by Norman Allott, second son of Michael and Helen Allott. Items P27/3/1/1-4 were purchased on 29 August 2008, and P27/3/1/5 on 19 September 2008, by the University of Limerick from Alan Warnock Books, Dublin. Alan Warnock Books are understood to have acquired the items from the Allott family at the time of the sale of the Odellville property following the death of Helen Allott in 2008. Items P27/1/2/1/13, P27/1/2/1/16, P27/1/2/1/20, P27/1/2/3/2, P27/1/2/3/4, P27/1/2/3/5, P27/1/2/3/7, P27/1/2/4/2, P27/1/2/4/3, P27/1/2/4/7, P27/1/3/2/4 and P27/1/3/2/7 (2) were donated on 27 June 2018 by Sean O’Grady. Their archival history is unknown.
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Scope and content
The material consists of leases, mortgages, conveyances, marriage settlements and wills relating to the families of Odell (1782-1891), Morony (1831-1937), Lloyd (1829-1965) and Allott (1947-1999). Of particular interest is the copy will relating to Helen Sophia Chenevix (1890-1963), General Secretary of the Irish Women Workers’ Union (1955-1957), member of the Irish Trade Union Congress executive committee (1946-1956), and one of the first female graduates of Trinity College, Dublin (see P27/1/4/1/3/1). There are also extensive records relating to the dairy farm managed at Odellville from 1945 to 1994, including stock breeding and sales records, milk records and farm accounts (P27/2/1/2-6). There is some architectural material relating to improvements carried out at Odellville between 1880 and 1900 (P27/1/2/7/1-3). There are also 19th-century scrapbooks and other items of Quaker interest relating to the Watson and Webb families (P27/3/1/1-4).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
All records have been retained.
Accruals
No accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
The material is arranged into three series. Series 1 comprises in the main leases, mortgages, marriage settlements and wills which map out the succession of the Odellville property from its original owners to the Allott family. Series 2 comprises farm and household records documenting the management of the dairy farm operated by Michael and Helen Allott at Odellville between 1945 and 1994. Series 3 comprises mainly items of Quaker interest and some photographic material relating to the Morony family.
Items P27/1/2/1/13, P27/1/2/1/16, P27/1/2/1/20, P27/1/2/3/2, P27/1/2/3/3, P27/1/2/3/5, P27/1/2/3/7, P27/1/2/4/2, P27/1/2/4/3, P27/1/2/4/7, P27/1/3/2/4 and P27/1/3/2/7 (2) donated in 2018 form a set. However, owing to their relatively complex nature they have been listed and described individually.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access to most items. Some files contain personal information relating to people living or presumed living and are closed for 50 to 80 years to protect individual privacy. Some items require conservation treatment and are too fragile to be safely handled. These files have been identified in the descriptive catalogue.
Conditions governing reproduction
Standard copyright regulations apply to all items. For photocopying or reproducing material, please consult with the staff.
Language of material
- English
- Latin
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Paper documents and photographs, mostly in good condition.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.a67d-6k17.
Related units of description
Items donated by Helen Allott relating to the Morony family are available in the National Archives Private Accessions 1961-1981 collection (https://www.nationalarchives.ie/PDF/PrivateAccessions1961-1988.pdf). Limerick Museum holds a small number of mainly correspondence relating to Henry Vereker Morony. For related material remaining in private hands, see P27/1/4/2/1.
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd edition (2000), Irish Guidelines for Archival Description (2009), National Council on Archives: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (1997) and EAP Guidance on Data Protection for Archive Services (2018).
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Archivist's note
Papers arranged and described by Seán Liston in November 2009 and revised by Anna-Maria Hajba in October 2022.