Ardfry house to be renovated

phil, yes, its the shell on the peninsula opposate the boat club. i think it was burned down in the insurrectionary period, and then reroofed and burned again making the macintosh man, in which i appear as an extra, well i am baby and i appear briefly in the background. when i was young the family used to live some of the attached houses, there where three sisters and a brother, or husband, i can’t really remember. the sisters were always called the three white mice and were the classic molly keane anglo-irish, wearing tea cozies on their heads and serving cooking sherry out off cut glass decanters. i think the residue of the family wealth was squandered on the horses; something i have a certain symphthy with. Anyway, the house is shell and i am really pleased anyone would take it on.

As for Diasporas point, i think the disgrace here is Butlers, which is in Renville park and hence in state ownership in some way, the park is well used to the point of being crowded and yet the adjacent golf course development was allowed to build holiday houses along the perimeter of the wood, so close it ruins the illusion of being in the wilds, they should have been foced to plant a buffer of trees or even ceed land to the park. The house is quite a small one, espessially compared to Ardfry, but, hansome with it and interesting, it has a dove cote and a well and so one; as it is, it has been ringed with a high wire fence and is being allowed to fall down, it has deterioted considerably in the time since the park was opened. It was also burned down by the way, but, in this case in the 70s during all the arguements about the land commision.

As a further insult there is a ring fort in one of the fields on the other side of the park from Renville bay and someone was allowed to build a typical ugly big house say 20 metres from it. Its sickening, again, the land should have been bought by the state and added to the park with some sort of interpretative material displayed for the ring fort.