The Allott Papers

The Allott Papers map the history of the families who occupied Odellville near Ballingarry, county Limerick. Norman Allot, second son of Michael and Helen donated most of the material to University of Limerick on the 10th of December 2008. Other items were purchased by the University of Limerick from Alan Warnock Books, Dublin. Alan Warnock Books are understood to have acquired the items from the sale of the Odelville property following the death of Helen Allot in 2008. Sean O’Grady donated other items to the collection on the 27th of June 2018. Their archival history is unknown.
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).