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| Date | 04-04-2011 |
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| Message | great site n photos. thanks for your hard work |
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| Date | 03-04-2011 |
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| Message | Well done on some beautiful photographs. Just had make to make a few comments regarding 'Grenan'. Grenan is a type of Hall-house/Hall-keep. There are a few around Ireland, more and more of which are now being recognised and classified. Grenan has been modified, perhaps in the 15th C, or even later, with for example the vaulting below the first floor. While the idea of the 'trap' door is interesting, I doubt that it is correct in the halls original form. The original entrance would normally be on the first floor, via a wooden stair case, from outside. The mural stairs would have lead to stores/buttery below. Apartments upstairs would generally just have been for the Lord and his immediate family - with screens dividing the space, though again this could have been modified later if the place became in effect a 'garrison'. There would also have been a private chapel on the one side of the hall, near the mural stairs, which lead to the private apartments/solar upstairs. An interesting note are the quoins - they seem to be 'Dundry' stone, imported from Bristol in the UK, and found on buildings of the period, c. early 13th C, of 'high status'. There is another hall-house at Annamult in Co. Kilkenny, smaller and modified, on a Cistercian medieval grange, which forms part of my research. With kind regards Arnie. |
| Date | 01-04-2011 |
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| Message | Well done, this is by far the best website relating to our forgotten heritage that I have come across. It is hard to believe that we are losing so much of this heritage due to the ineptitude of our politicians and our people. The stigma attached to these houses should be confined to the history books and we should be trying to preserve and restore as much of this wonderful architecture as possible. I have spent the last couple of days exploring these houses with you and I have experienced a myriad of feelings. Sadness and melancholy at opportunities lost but a feeling of frustration and anger at our lack of response as a nation to the daily decline of these great houses. Again well done  |
| Date | 01-04-2011 |
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| Message | I love this website. :D |
| Date | 31-03-2011 |
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| Message | Great photo's from my ancestral home, as my Mother came from Cavan and Father from Portloas. To my shame I have not been back for years but looking at you photo's make me want to visit. Well done |
| Date | 28-03-2011 |
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| Message | Slainte! You have done a fine job of exploring the old places in Ireland.These are places I would have wanted to see if I were there. Rather then the touristy type places. So thank you very much as I doubt I will ever get to do so . I expect It will take me more the a few "trips" to your site to see the Ireland that so many in my family originated from. So I will do this quite easily, with Tullamore Dew on my desk, and my wolfhound, Molly Banshee sleeping near me, I shall vicariously from along way away explore with you.  Lastly, beautiful website. Easy to move around in. |
| Date | 26-03-2011 |
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| Message | These photographs are stunning! Congratulations, you have done a beautiful job capturing some historical and haunting images. You should be very proud! |
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