The Little Cottage in Cahir

More on that little cottage in Cahir, Ireland comes now but if you didn’t read my original scribbles, here it is here; https://www.studiokreat.com/post/art-spotlight-building-the-house-that-remembered When I first saw this photograph of the little cottage in Cahir where my three-times-great-grandmother Mary Martha and her husband John began their family life, I felt saddened by its derelict condition. It was difficult to see a place that had once sheltered my ancestors so wea

There is something quietly sacred about making a home that no longer stands as it once did. And so this little cottage is not an exercise in miniature making. It is my way of sitting beside a woman whose hands shaped ordinary days that history never thought to record. The cottage where Mary Martha , John, and their children lived in Cahir before moving to the Cashel Army barracks now sits derelict beneath a weathered roof. Moss has claimed the walls and that roof as the premi