After decades of being left to rot, often deliberately, there is renewed enthusiasm for rescuing the Big Houses of our troubled past
Mayfield House in Enniscorthy is a Victorian Big House
There’s a bit in the new series of The Great House Revival where Mary-Claire Waters and Shane ‘Sully’ O Sullivan learn the house they have bought in the middle of Churchtown, north Cork – known locally as The Parson’s House – and plan on restoring, dates from 1835 and was built as part of the 19th century renewal of Churchtown.
The revival came about after buildings in the centre – mostly thatched cottages – were burned when the Whiteboys threw lighted sods on to the roof of the nearby police barracks in 1822. The barracks went up in flames and the police surrendered, but many surrounding homes burned too.
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