Item 2 - Album of postcards

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IE 2135 P27/3/2/2

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Album of postcards

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  • 1903-1929 (Creation)

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74 pp.

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Name of creator

(The Allot family succeeded to Odelville in 1963)

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.

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Album containing 214 greeting and postcards, addressed in the main to Mrs Morony, Belcarra, Castlebar, county Mayo. Most of the cards are in black and white; some have a colour tint. Although many of the cards depict foreign scenes, most were posted in Ireland. The subjects include in the main prominent buildings and scenes in Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Southern Turkey and the United States.

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No access to volume until conserved.

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  • Béarla

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    Bound album in fragile condition.

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    P27/288

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