with the exception of a dozen or so houses and the ruins of what once was one man's dream". The Aldborough family were deeply rooted in the development of Stratford-on-Slaney as a town and also as a manufacturing centre.

Orr family

Stratford-on-Slaney was sold by the Aldborough family to Mr. Orr, who owned a company called Smith Orrs' & Sons. This company had an address in Dublin at 8 Merchants Quay, operating from there between 1782 and 1795.

According to Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of 1837, Stratford-upon-Slaney

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