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Offline Conor Stapleton

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 16 February 20 12:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi Annie
I work for Odearest, we still make mattresses in Kildare. We have 300 people in Ireland in Dublin and Kildare making mattresses, springs and filling materials. I am trying to put a company history together. I was wondering if you could share the photos of the old Odearest factory with me? Thanks Conor

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
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« Reply #30 on: Sunday 16 February 20 14:57 GMT (UK) »
Is the factory in Kildare the one in Kilcullen?
My father was one of the KDA men that build and leased out that factory until Kayfoam bought it.

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #31 on: Monday 17 February 20 11:19 GMT (UK) »
electoral rolls Bernard,Denis and Michael O'Dea 41 Stafford Street,Warehouse office and yard
1908 to 1915
http://databases.dublincity.ie/burgesses/browse_years.php

Glasnevin shows burials when entering Orwell into address box
Bernard 1916 age 25
Mary 1924 age 70
Mary's death informant was Denis O'Dea
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1925/05020/4372151.pdf
Michael 1932 age 78
https://www.glasnevintrust.ie/genealogy/results/

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #32 on: Monday 17 February 20 12:03 GMT (UK) »
Yes Daithi - the factory on  the outskirts of Kilcullen. What does KDA stand  for?

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #33 on: Monday 17 February 20 12:14 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Conor Stapleton on Monday 17 February 20 12:03 GMT (UK)
Yes Daithi - the factory on  the outskirts of Kilcullen. What does KDA stand  for?
Kilcullen Development Association, they built the factory to attract a factory to the town (and later the ones behind it), offered it to anyone willing to employ local people, similar to the IDA but local. They also built all those houses around the factory and sold them at a reasonable price to Kildare people who didn't qualify for a council house but also couldn't get a mortgage. All funded from a Non Stop Draw held every week.

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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #34 on: Monday 17 February 20 12:38 GMT (UK) »
@conor Stapleton - I’d happily share the picture if I could, but I only ever had sight of it, not possession, and to the best of my knowledge it’s in a private photo album somewhere in Dublin now.
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Re: O'Dea Irish Bedding Factory
« Reply #35 on: Monday 17 February 20 12:45 GMT (UK) »
@ sinann thats an amazing pic, and much appreciate you sharing the factory heritage. Great to see jobs and homes going local, the factory has expanded and gone from strength  to strength thankfully over the decades.
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