These sights still haunt me now, for I grew up until I was 12 in one of those places , no running water or electric , the plain truth was we didn't know any different and we got on with it , when I tell my grand kids now they think I'm kidding them ,
I always feel very sad when I see these houses falling down I think of the family's that once lived there the children that played outside and went to bed cold and hungry some nights but happy all the same content in the love of a family.These old houses hold some stories and maybe ghosts too.If I were rich I would buy some and restore them.thanks for sharing .my imagination runs.
The hearth looks like it contains an old bread oven on the right. What a beautiful spot if renovated, but the condition of the place is very rough. Fascinating! Thank you!
Very similar to old cottages on the Llyn Peninsular in North Wales, where we had wonderful holidays in a cottage we owned ! We got too old to keep it going and sadly sold it . Lots of memories !!
Great filming especially the fact that you didn't feel the need to give a running commentary which spoils so many videos, neither did you pan round quickly. The natural sounds were all that were needed. Thank you for sharing :-)
Jaizs that was f****n weird. i'm welled up with emotions here for some reason. Some kind of anguish gripped the heart, when You turned the view on the old hearth there. My inner self rambling & moaning while it was running. Spooky.
So beautiful and nostalgic - the work that went into building it and the people probably had very little except their animals - I wonder when they abandoned it - 1846/7? Thank you lots.
I wonder what class home this was..listed on Griffiths Evaluation. My family were at the bottom of society having a sod cabin of class 4 at 8 shillings per year with a garden and were tenant farmers for Edmond Murphy in Ballymore Tipperary
Say Hello to me ole uncle Frank Moran if ya see em will ya? me grandpa was raised there in Tipperary, he moved to USA sometime in the 1920's I believe. enjoyed the vid, thx!
I would say even 20th century , unless Tipperary was much more developed than Mayo back then . Some of the houses of the 1980's were nowhere near as advanced as that one .
I would say bread oven..that lintel looked dangerously sway-backed...the place had a rather eerie feel to me.. the horseshoe in the wall was interesting. Must have been freezing cold, even when a new built house with such a huge chimney there. Life was so hard for people then.
Oh, I love it, too. God & people first...and other living beings, of course. At the same time ~ The birds singing so merrily, the lovely ferns and mosses so verdant with LIFE. This lovely olde cottage COULD be renovated and restored. Would that not be some kind of a worthy project to gather a team to legally buy the land it sits on & is surrounded by; establish a 'good fences make good neighbors' kind of a buffer zone in case of many other people getting the notion to set up a commotion or come wandering in unbidden? I volunteer to work for free room and board and a bit of pocket change (in Irish Euros preferably). Seriously interested. A folk village (like a living history museum) could 'spring up' around it. I betcha that the people who'd lived there MAY very well have had a ...well, I mean.... really.... like a FRESH WATER WELL. It's possible.
@draoi99 Yep - Lough Derg is visible between the trees near the start, looking across at the Clare side. This is quite high up, neat the end of what is currently used as agricultural land.
Hi again, thebettyfordclinic. My cousin Paddy told me this is the abandoned home of a retired police sergeant, in use through the '60s-'70s. The townland is Townlough Upper on the east shore of Lough Derg, along the slope of Tountinna Mountain. Is that a blackbird singing in the background?
What it was originally, who knows? But my first impression is that the roof seems more modern than the rest of the building. I wonder when it was put on.
Famine houses were the homes of farm workers that were vacated during the famine. The landlords paid gangs of men to evict people from their houses if they were not paying rent. The usual method was to remove the roof. You can see plenty of similar buildings to this one on the west coast only without a roof.
@thebettyfordclinic Yes, you find them here on the east coast in 18th and early 19th century houses. Some places even run workshops on how to bake in them. You judged the heat by putting your arm into the oven for the count of 5, I believe. Then it was hot enough for baking. In the US, a bread oven might be outside, for summer baking.
I hate to oppose the narrative but that building was never a house. Firstly the entrance is much too wide and secondly the fireplace is much too big. This was a small commercial premises for someone who needed fire such as a baker or a blacksmith. The home of whoever it was is probably one of the ruins that you see at the start of the clip. Whoever built the place had a little money too because slate roofing was expensive and not for the likes of farm labourers.
Appreciate the comment! I'm no expert on cottages of course. I do suspect that the door was widened at some stage, and from a slate point of view this is in the middle of an intensive slate mining area. But yes - this building certainly could have started life as an industrial building too.
Take a look at this video and in particular the size of the fireplace and door. The door in your clip is commercial size not cottage size. Blacksmiths were everywhere back in the day and made all kinds of things apart from horseshoes such as gates, fireplace tools, hinges, iron pots, ploughs, wheel rims, barrel hoops and the humble nail.
If it was in occupation at the time you say then the famine did affect its inhabitants probably in many ways. It is beautiful but I felt very sad while watching.
awesome!!!....my dad was a murphy & my grandma, his mother was a moore...she told me one time where her family came from in ireland, somewhere towards the middle & a little to the left on a map of ireland....her family ended up running a boarding house where she learned how to do everything w/running a place like that, from making beds, washing, cooking for a lot of people, & killing her own chickens-they had four girls, we called her ella, for elizabeth & her sisters, cami, genevieve & i can't remember the other sister????my murphy side were farmers in north carolina, corn, tobacco ect...i'm sure they made moonshine at one time or another.....lol...ty for putting up w/me!!! beautiful country there for sure!!! (Erin)
I don't believe that there was that much 'pain' at this homestead. One may observe that the 'garage' structure is roofed with slate. Slate was expensive in the 18th and 19th centuries. Therefore, either the family had money, or their relatives living abroad sent them back remittances. Which provided them with the ability to have the house (as I believe it once was), roofed with slates.
The text referencing the 1960s-1970s was contributed by someone with specific local knowledge. Unless you have specific local knowledge regarding this property your comment is the one that is guesswork.
There was nothing idyllic or nice about living in these old cottages in Ireland in the 18th or 19th centuries. The people were little more than slaves and lived in terrible poverty. Cold and damp , underfed and worked to the bone. God help them.
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Thank you for such an immersive video . Letting the camera and the birds do the talking, it was as if I were there. WELL DONE!!
I see a lot of pain, struggle and hard life in these houses. How simple were the people back then! Your visit was worth sharing. Thanks.
Beauty and sadness together. Thank you for letting birds do the talking!
I am left speechless at the beauty of thus place. Amazing explore!
Well this is a lovely surprise 11 years after it was posted
How beautiful!!!!! Specially with the bird-song! I'd live there in a heartbeat, if I could put in my own little cottage.
These sights still haunt me now, for I grew up until I was 12 in one of those places , no running water or electric , the plain truth was we didn't know any different and we got on with it , when I tell my grand kids now they think I'm kidding them ,
Many thanks for your comment Diane - feel free to tell more!
I always feel very sad when I see these houses falling down I think of the family's that once lived there the children that played outside and went to bed cold and hungry some nights but happy all the same content in the love of a family.These old houses hold some stories and maybe ghosts too.If I were rich I would buy some and restore them.thanks for sharing .my imagination runs.
The hearth looks like it contains an old bread oven on the right. What a beautiful spot if renovated, but the condition of the place is very rough. Fascinating! Thank you!
Very similar to old cottages on the Llyn Peninsular in North Wales, where we had wonderful holidays in a cottage we owned ! We got too old to keep it going and sadly sold it . Lots of memories !!
Great filming especially the fact that you didn't feel the need to give a running commentary which spoils so many videos, neither did you pan round quickly. The natural sounds were all that were needed. Thank you for sharing :-)
Love the stone work outside. Be safe
it would be great to have a timemachine to have a look in its best times...
The Irish landscaspe is always arresting; so beautiful and yet so haunting.
Brilliant thanks for sharing can feel the surffring keep up the great work 👍🏻☘️
Breathtaking. Thank you.
I feel very sad of seeing people in famine no food for families. May they rest well.
Jaizs that was f****n weird. i'm welled up with emotions here for some reason. Some kind of anguish gripped the heart, when You turned the view on the old hearth there. My inner self rambling & moaning while it was running. Spooky.
So beautiful and nostalgic - the work that went into building it and the people probably had very little except their animals - I wonder when they abandoned it - 1846/7? Thank you lots.
they abandoned them in the 1840's because of the potato famine.
Nature has a way of claiming vacant houses
not just houses
I wonder what class home this was..listed on Griffiths Evaluation. My family were at the bottom of society having a sod cabin of class 4 at 8 shillings per year with a garden and were tenant farmers for Edmond Murphy in Ballymore Tipperary
fair play to you for getting those old maps for reference good job
You can use osi.Com
Say Hello to me ole uncle Frank Moran if ya see em will ya?
me grandpa was raised there in Tipperary, he moved to USA sometime in the 1920's I believe.
enjoyed the vid, thx!
I would say even 20th century , unless Tipperary was much more developed than Mayo back then . Some of the houses of the 1980's were nowhere near as advanced as that one .
LOL - BettyFordClinic it's that of alcoholics ?!?!?!?!
LIKE for the choice of the channel's name and video too ;)
I would say bread oven..that lintel looked dangerously sway-backed...the place had a rather eerie feel to me.. the horseshoe in the wall was interesting. Must have been freezing cold, even when a new built house with such a huge chimney there. Life was so hard for people then.
It's not that cold when the fires on and the door is shut.
Oh, I love it, too. God & people first...and other living beings, of course. At the same time ~ The birds singing so merrily, the lovely ferns and mosses so verdant with LIFE. This lovely olde cottage COULD be renovated and restored. Would that not be some kind of a worthy project to gather a team to legally buy the land it sits on & is surrounded by; establish a 'good fences make good neighbors' kind of a buffer zone in case of many other people getting the notion to set up a commotion or come wandering in unbidden? I volunteer to work for free room and board and a bit of pocket change (in Irish Euros preferably). Seriously interested. A folk village (like a living history museum) could 'spring up' around it. I betcha that the people who'd lived there MAY very well have had a ...well, I mean.... really.... like a FRESH WATER WELL. It's possible.
My god you wonder what hardships these poor people suffered, I hope there un a better place now. God rest them .
That was lovely to watch thanku
@draoi99 Yep - Lough Derg is visible between the trees near the start, looking across at the Clare side. This is quite high up, neat the end of what is currently used as agricultural land.
Hi again, thebettyfordclinic. My cousin Paddy told me this is the abandoned home of a retired police sergeant, in use through the '60s-'70s. The townland is Townlough Upper on the east shore of Lough Derg, along the slope of Tountinna Mountain. Is that a blackbird singing in the background?
+Joann Hinz Many thanks Joann - I've added your comment to the description. Great info!
thank you.
What it was originally, who knows? But my first impression is that the roof seems more modern than the rest of the building. I wonder when it was put on.
I know of a few off the beaten track some with just the gable end left its sad to see
I see these all the time. They dont look special but they are for the people who used to live there
@amsol46 I've always wondered exactly what those little spaces were. Thanks!
You really captured the beauty of the place. So green! May I ask what a famine house would have been?
Famine houses were the homes of farm workers that were vacated during the famine. The landlords paid gangs of men to evict people from their houses if they were not paying rent. The usual method was to remove the roof. You can see plenty of similar buildings to this one on the west coast only without a roof.
@thebettyfordclinic Yes, you find them here on the east coast in 18th and early 19th century houses. Some places even run workshops on how to bake in them. You judged the heat by putting your arm into the oven for the count of 5, I believe. Then it was hot enough for baking. In the US, a bread oven might be outside, for summer baking.
Magical
Hi Mary how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from Covid. It’s a lovely video. Wish you a lovely day 😊🌹👍 Michael
Nice one
I hate to oppose the narrative but that building was never a house. Firstly the entrance is much too wide and secondly the fireplace is much too big. This was a small commercial premises for someone who needed fire such as a baker or a blacksmith. The home of whoever it was is probably one of the ruins that you see at the start of the clip. Whoever built the place had a little money too because slate roofing was expensive and not for the likes of farm labourers.
Appreciate the comment! I'm no expert on cottages of course. I do suspect that the door was widened at some stage, and from a slate point of view this is in the middle of an intensive slate mining area. But yes - this building certainly could have started life as an industrial building too.
Take a look at this video and in particular the size of the fireplace and door. The door in your clip is commercial size not cottage size. Blacksmiths were everywhere back in the day and made all kinds of things apart from horseshoes such as gates, fireplace tools, hinges, iron pots, ploughs, wheel rims, barrel hoops and the humble nail.
Nice 👍
Thank you for sharing.
Shir thats like me own house.
If it was in occupation at the time you say then the famine did affect its inhabitants probably in many ways. It is beautiful but I felt very sad while watching.
Why was there that BIG open section of wall ? It doesn't seem very practical to me... :/
Fascinating old place. Is that Lough Derg in the background?
My grandfather's family on my mother side came from Tipperary.
then left for Montreal.
Dude I can’t belive you went in it when the roofs fitting to fall in lol
that was a cozy little home at one time....did you ever find the well on the property as it said on the map there was a well? ty for the video
Yes - I went back and the well was still there!
awesome!!!....my dad was a murphy & my grandma, his mother was a moore...she told me one time where her family came from in ireland, somewhere towards the middle & a little to the left on a map of ireland....her family ended up running a boarding house where she learned how to do everything w/running a place like that, from making beds, washing, cooking for a lot of people, & killing her own chickens-they had four girls, we called her ella, for elizabeth & her sisters, cami, genevieve & i can't remember the other sister????my murphy side were farmers in north carolina, corn, tobacco ect...i'm sure they made moonshine at one time or another.....lol...ty for putting up w/me!!! beautiful country there for sure!!! (Erin)
I don't believe that there was that much 'pain' at this homestead. One may observe that the 'garage' structure is roofed with slate. Slate was expensive in the 18th and 19th centuries. Therefore, either the family had money, or their relatives living abroad sent them back remittances. Which provided them with the ability to have the house (as I believe it once was), roofed with slates.
It was probably rebuilt for a small time
thanks for the share
There is nothing left how very sad
They had a slate roof!!
There is no way this house was in use up to the 1970s. More like 1870s. You need to have accurate facts not guesswork
The text referencing the 1960s-1970s was contributed by someone with specific local knowledge. Unless you have specific local knowledge regarding this property your comment is the one that is guesswork.
Bro i live in ireland tipp
There was nothing idyllic or nice about living in these old cottages in Ireland in the 18th or 19th centuries. The people were little more than slaves and lived in terrible poverty. Cold and damp , underfed and worked to the bone. God help them.
Where is the narrative? We need that story!! Give me a scrpt and I'll narrate ift for you for free!!
A picture tells a thousand words
Thank you