| Collection Description | Odellville was built in the 1770s by John Fitzcharles Odell and passed to the Moronys 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, while the
younger daughter, Geraldine, married Henry Molony in 1889. On the death of Henry Vereker, the property passed to his only child,
Helen Mary Matilda Morony, who married Edward Locke Lloyd of Heathfield, county Limerick, in 1917. Their daughter, Helen Lucia
Lloyd, married in 1945 Michael Allott of Dublin and on the death of her father in 1963 the Odellville property passed to the Allotts.
The Allotts 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 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 are the copy will and other items 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. [University of Limerick Special Collections
and Archives] |
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