The story of one home through three generations
I can’t say when the foundations of my grandparents’ house were laid. Some ancestor of mine has lived without distinction or fame on the same patch of heavy, unproductive land for at least 200 years. When the first full-scale assessment of property in Ireland was carried out in the years immediately after the famine, between 1845 and 1849, my family was already there in County Offaly, probably surviving hand to mouth in bog-side hovels.
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