Sorry, I'm a bit late to the comments, but this was fascinating. I loved it. The history going back at least 9000 years, but to see that the last 300 odd years is still right there, preserved in those houses is fantastic. I sincerely hope they are still there in another 300 years.
Cathal, yer da, me and most of the family grew up in front of that fire. An acre of peats cut every yr to fuel it, that was a slog on it's own each yr lol, the farmhouse was renovated in the late 70's, the last place to have electric supplied to it in the area, great memories and thanks for showing it, ❤
That is right, I have great memories of sitting in front of it, with great yarns and ghost stories being told. The cutting of the peat was a slog, as you say there was some serious loads came out of the moss on the back of the 35!!!
Hi Cathal, great to see you are taking care of your Co. Antrim (glens) heritage. I,ve been living in California for 20 years now and, although I've had a great life here, still miss my home in Ballymena. Your videos are a constant reminder of life in the glens with your father adding the old familiar dialect and much loved sayings. Good luck with the channel and keeping up" the auld place."
Nice history lesson there Cathal. I think its very important to do our best to maintain and protect our history and heritage. Our own home farm is very similar, with a cottage in Great condition we still use from 1840 and older buildings from the 1600's we think..
I really enjoyed your video of the history of your family farm ,cathal . It would be nice if the old house and buildings could be made into holiday homes . I know it would take a lot of money. T
It's hard for me to imagine growing up in a house like that. I can't imagine not having running water and electricity. I feel so blessed after hearing what a hard life these people had.
great history lesson cathal grew up in an old house similar to that and have restored a few over the years your right about the plaster keeping in the damp, what you need is a good roof and remove the plaster to let the walls breathe and try to light a fire in it on a regular basis , thanks again for the video matt.
Great look round the old farmhouse. At 6”2 I’d probably have been crawling around on my knees in most of it 😆. I love the old stories and uses a building has had. an estate i contract to used to be about 2500 acres now down to about 65 acres… a Victorian owner found booze and women and lost all his money 😆. Has an old chapel apparently from the 16th century (when the original house was built)
Didn’t expect a video like this but like other comments very interesting for sure. If ur interested there are two good day outs. 1. The old history park n Gortin which traces how folk lived in this country 1000’s of years ago go up to recent times. 2. The famine village up near ballyliffin in Donegal. This place is well worth a visit and very informative on history over this past few hundred of years.
Great video, very interesting, long time since i seen a crane like that over the fireplace And the byre, i suppose the dairy was added when the pipe line went in
A very interesting video indeed, believe me these buildings will still be around compared to the new shockingly new so called house's if came across, (no pride of workmen ship these days 🙄) I could tell you so many stories in my case but too long to type, especially the haunted out house in the glens were no-one wiped their bum after taken a number 2 😅, thank you for the video, I'm off now to clean my Pendulum especially what I get called at times especially when three generations share the same birthday's soon. 🙂👍
Thanks for sharing, grew up in a old long house like that, we had a boiler house with large open fireplace for cooking, I believe they kept adding to these houses for tax reasons so they were still one structure, ours is gone now.
When u look at these and how people lived and modern day people now often working 80 plus hrs mega mortgages to build and maintain mega houses with often 2 people living in them bound be happy medium
