{"id":18553,"date":"2021-10-08T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18553"},"modified":"2021-10-08T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T17:59:31","slug":"episode-443-irish-stories-irish-cottage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18553","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 443 IRISH STORIES: IRISH COTTAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 443   IRISH STORIES\u2026IRISH COTTAGES (HOMES) <\/p>\n

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I wish I had taken pictures of many of the homes where our work force lived.  As I remember they<\/div>\n
used the term \u2018cottage\u2019 for their homes.  In Canada that has a different meaning.  Second homes. In Ireland in 1960 There was one<\/div>\n
cottage that stood out from others because the owner, perhaps his name was Mr. Casey, spent<\/div>\n
a lot of time pruning and painting to make the place look magnificent.<\/div>\n

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Sad to say a lot of these small rural cottages on one acre lots were abandoned.  Or maybe it was just that I looked for signs of<\/div>\n
the past and tended to photograph empty, often roofless, places where people once lived.<\/div>\n

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This home in Bunmahon was just abandoned and allowed to collapse.   Barney told me a story  about the former owners.  A story<\/div>\n
on the edge of my consciousness.   I think the family retained ownership and just moved on\u2026let the house fall apart.   Ruins like this<\/div>\n
must have been common in the late 1870\u2019s when the mine closed and the people (population was around 2,000 then)\u2026.Miners are<\/div>\n
nomadic.   The miners of Bunmahon moved west to the United States and Canada.<\/div>\n

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This ancient bee hive home has withstood the ravages of time.   AT one time a monk may have lived here contemplating\u2026.just contemplating.<\/div>\n
What?   What would you think about  while sitting cross legged in a tiny stone house where you couldn\u2019t stand?  Just sitting there alone.<\/div>\n

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I am so glad I took this picture because it was so \u2019normal\u2019 to me in 1960.   Homes that were whitewashed\u2026very neat in most<\/div>\n
cases\u2026with every inch of the acre of land being used.  Often with domestic animals.<\/div>\n

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And ancient graveyards were often present.<\/div>\n

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So many of the abandoned buildings looked like this\u2026as if the rooves had been removed deliberately.  Seems to me I read somewhere that<\/div>\n
landlords forcibly removed those rooves to force indigent tenants to move on\u2026i.e.  people who were not paying rent.   That happened<\/div>\n
in the Highland Clearances in Scotland when large landwoners wanted land for sheep and not for people.   The 1840\u2019s were rough years<\/div>\n
made worse by the sudden failure of the potato crop across western Europe.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EPISODE 443   IRISH STORIES\u2026IRISH COTTAGES (HOMES)  alan skeoch oct. 2021 I wish I had taken pictures of many of the homes where our work force lived.  As I remember they used the term \u2018cottage\u2019 for their homes.  In Canada that has a different meaning.  Second homes. In Ireland in 1960 There was one cottage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}