Somebody told me of a chocolate box thatched cottage in Tipperary. So yesterday we drove to Cahir in Tipperary.
We parked in Swiss Cottage carpark and walked along the river walk and along the old coach lane meandering like a river does to Swiss Cottage. Here's some pics:
It was well worth the visit and it is was free to walk the grounds. The cottage is closed to the public at present. There are some good videos of Swiss Cottage on good old You Tube for your perusal.
I lived about 10 mins from there for almost twenty years Dave. If we were still there you could have popped in for a cuppa! :)
ReplyDeleteThat is a very pretty Cottage.
ReplyDeleteI am a professional peasant impersonator. I think nobody else knows that I am only pretending.
Good to hear from you Deb. Are you still writing? Isn't it a small world? Tipperary is beautiful. I plan to explore of this Irish county soon. It reminded me of Somerset. Cider country, orchards and wheat growing and race horses grazing. A jewel
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There are some lovely spots down there. Lismore's nice if you ever get the chance to go there. Yep still writing.
DeleteGood to read you are still writing Debby. I seem to only blog these days. Will check out Lismore. Thanks.
DeleteIt's just across the border in Waterford, but nice place to visit if you're down that way.
DeleteThanks Debby. I have been through Wexford and Waterford on the ferry from Pembroke to Rosslare many moons ago. I think my self sufficiency hero John Seymour lived at New Ross for a while. I must get exploring more parts of Ireland. I think I have been everywhere in Cork and Kerry.
DeleteHi JayCee. I was really really poor once but now I'm rich on paper and poor in pocket.😊 I think you and me have both done very well to live in such lovely places.
ReplyDeleteYour sense of humour is often pretty rich and over on Jean's blog - "Battered Woman" she says your vacuum operating skills are desperately poor. Apparently, you are to vacuuming what Boris Johnson is to truth telling.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Thanks for sharing Nash's Swiss Cottage with us. What a quirky house!
I thank you. Apparently according a lovely English guide from the OOW that Byron is rumoured to have visited there. I think the would have been organic and used a Ewbank or bosom brush. They apparently never slept there and there is a tunnel where the servants could bring grub and Newcy Brown without being seen.
DeleteI have been strimming and typing very well. She was from the Officeof Public Works. Which is like the National Trust.
DeleteWhat a good idea to have a tunnel for servants then you don't have to look at the wretched people!
Delete"Mead wench. Now uck off". Uck off was number two son's first words he learned at school when he joined the Infants.
DeleteCottage?! Hurrumph. F grew up in a 'cottage'. Two rooms in a building so small it was shifted from the sawmill where it had originally been a 'residence' to the settlement at Studholme( South Canterbury), on a couple of skids towed by a traction engine. They built a lean-to on the back for a scullery, and a lean-to on the front for a 'lounge' (posh word for a sitting room) and called it a 'homestead'. There are bigger caravans in holiday parks in UK. That thing above, on the other hand, is positively a mansion, and if it takes a famous architect to design it, then by definition it ain't a 'cottage'. (It's very pretty though and F would not have minded swapping her cottage home for that.)
ReplyDeleteHi Tigger. Yes it's hardly an humble abode or very small. But like nature it's not got many straight lines and looks idyllic and I would love to live in something similar. I have seen other thatched houses in Dorset. Built for farm labourers families and now worth a fortune.
ReplyDeleteI'm like Tigger. Cottage???? You certainly have to be rich and live in a rambling mansion to call that a cottage. It's gorgeous though.
ReplyDeleteThey also owned an hotel down the road and servants would bring their refreshments through a tunnel and quickly disappear. It is rather beautiful. Thanks Linda.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this Dave. I have never heard of the cottage before. I see it was built for entertaining in not for living in and the original looked superb from the outside with the curvy lines of the roof. A little appears to have been lost now but good to see it restored.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rachel. There are some good videos of Swiss Cottage on You Tube. Tipperary is a beautiful county.
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