Year: 2021

I found Brigid’s abandoned house sitting peacefully at the roadside while driving through Co.Donegal. Built in the early 1930s and serving as a family home for over 50 years, this once bustling abode now sits lonely in decay.One can only image the happy memories created within these walls which now leaves a sadness when you see what it has become. Judging from the possessions left behind it is clearly evident that religion played a massive part in family life. There was also an abundance of books, that and the absence…

I visited William’s house in 2012 but due to a lost hard drive that i’ve recently recovered I have just come across these images.Once the Jewel in the Crown of the Galway coastline, William’s house now lies idle.It was built in the late 18th century by an aristocratic family of barons from Sussex who came to Ireland and were granted – or rather, grabbed – vast tracts of land and decided to create “as fine and elegant a private gentleman’s seat as any in Europe”.Lying vacant from 2004 there is…