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- 1866 (Creation)
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118 pp.
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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.
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Hardcover notebook bearing the bookplate of Joseph Dollard on the inside cover, and embossed on the first page ‘Emilie M. Watson, Mount-mellick, 1866’. The Watsons were a Quaker family of Mountmellick, a centre of Irish Quakerism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book contains short essays in clear handwriting with titles presented in ornate calligraphy. Contents include a table listing the gravities of chemical elements; a note on triangles with illustrations; distances of planets from the sun; list of the signs of the zodiac; genealogical tables relating to the royal family; map of Ireland with related topographical and geographical notes; notes on mythology; the role of the resultant in mechanics; phrenology; barometers and thermometers; wind and rain; phosphorus; the empire of Alexander the Great; ancient Greece; classification of mankind; figures of speech; and on mammals, reptiles, insects, fish and leaves. Between the essays are ornate pages containing sayings and quotations. At the end of the book, in reverse, is a long poem of religious nature entitled The Three Rocks, attributed to ‘Nannie’ Webb. For ‘Nannie’ Webb, also see P27/3/1/1.
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- English
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Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.kes2-6798.