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1. Monellan Estate

   

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   "Naw" Monellan isn't much of a place now but you should have seen it in my young days when there was fifty men employed. They Kept three men full time trimming and cleaning the avenue and a small boy to brush up after them. Woe to the man who would have dared to break as much as a twig that size in them days and soon there wont be a twig their size left. It was the Rev. Robert Delap that owned it then but he wasn't the first of the name. Are they long here altogether? No not long, I was gardener as a young man in Robert's time and he often told me their family history. The first Delap to come to Monellan was a Colonel in the British army and he was given the estate be the "Crown". That would be over 130 years ago. It might be before 1798. This Colonel had a brother Sam who started to build the "Big house" Sam had a son who was in College about the same time as

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Noonan

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Patrick Mc Fadden

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   Over 80

   Address

   Ballynaman, Co. Donegal