Irish vernacular…..
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Compadres, i need enlightenment – i think i’m living a lie ……..i have come across so many references to allusive IRISH VERNACULAR -seen too many development go in under the warm and all encompassing cloak of IRISH VERNACULAR but i have yet to see and experience a good interpretation of IRISH VERNACULAR. Is IRISH VERNACULAR a green pass for mass holiday home development on a green field sites overlooking a areas of rare & unique beauty – provided and this is provided, there are enough concrete parapets and natural stonework thrown at it… i don’t mean to be playing devil’s advocate here but …….what is IRISH VERNACULAR ???…….it there a real IRISH VERNACULAR,does it exist …..
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I think tarzan discovered it once .. but it was buried under too many elephant tusks…. On the other hand … somewhere in the wilds of Leitrim…
http://www.roskavanagh.com/php/user_system.php?action=view_photo&resource_id=83
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Ros Kavanagh-photographer- seems to have captured a good example of what some may be termed as IRISH VERNACULAR whereas tarzan had nothing to do with it…..cut and paste the oak forest the from the far side of this house and plant it back on the siteand leave the site as it was found…..thats not irish vernacular…..how does this qualify as irish vernacular……
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Tarzan was a reference to the ever elusive elephant’s graveyard…. The house in leitrim qualifies under the term Irish Vernacular in form mainly… in that the last buildings to be built in this country which used mainly local materials tended to be small stone cotages. … You might want to add in turf sod houses to that too. So yes the house I posted the link to has a reference in form to the broadly percieved originator of Irish vernacular…. but if you want to take the idea of Vernacular as being a building made from locally available materials.. to a design influenced by the local environment… then you might as well look at a semi – d made with blocks from Chadwicks and PVC windows from the workshop down the street.
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