It looks like this was reconstructed at the "Frontier Culture Museum in Virginia and given a nice thatched roof. You can find photos on flickr. I'll try posting a link but it may disappear.
Today they'd be wearing hazmat suits back then sports coat and corduroy was good enough. I admire those men working hours upon hours chipping away at the lime filling.
Yep, and back then, construction/trades people were much more likely to get seriously injured, killed or have their health badly affected. I think I'll stick with the modern methods thanks very much.
I've seen old stone houses deserted to be replaced hundreds of yards further up with a "new" home. Apparently, this happened all over Ireland... right?
Yes. As my history teacher told us, we drive around complaining about people doing this but if we had to live in cold, drafty, tiny houses, we would’ve built a new house a soon as we could as well. People are restoring more of them nowadays though.
@@gamescentrel2951 They’re a rubble wall stuck together with lime. Or sometimes not even that. Earth and cowshite were also used. The stones might stand up for centuries but having spent time in houses like that, you wouldn’t want to live in one in winter.
Can verify. I live on the Roscommon/Mayo border and you can see the old ones abandoned, with the families / relatives having moved into a modern building nearby. Sad to see the old buildings let fall in. I did buy one of the old ones, we're still working on it, a WIP. My god, it is COLD in these! No need for AC in summer.
@@tonemc6047 Comments on ‘Transporting an Irish Stone Cottage from Tyrone to Virginia, USA, 1984’ 9.12.24 0050am never mind. it's very rare one's intimations are projected via the written word...
It looks like this was reconstructed at the "Frontier Culture Museum in Virginia and given a nice thatched roof. You can find photos on flickr. I'll try posting a link but it may disappear.
I'd love to see how this turned out
Me too
Virginia Frontier Culture Museum. It’s thatched and whitewashed by the photos on Google Maps. Fairy sure it’s the same house.
And to make it really authentic, they battered down the door and set the roof on fire!
Today they'd be wearing hazmat suits back then sports coat and corduroy was good enough. I admire those men working hours upon hours chipping away at the lime filling.
Yep, and back then, construction/trades people were much more likely to get seriously injured, killed or have their health badly affected. I think I'll stick with the modern methods thanks very much.
@@davidkavanagh189 Okay. Thanks for your input.
I've seen old stone houses deserted to be replaced hundreds of yards further up with a "new" home. Apparently, this happened all over Ireland... right?
Yes. As my history teacher told us, we drive around complaining about people doing this but if we had to live in cold, drafty, tiny houses, we would’ve built a new house a soon as we could as well.
People are restoring more of them nowadays though.
@@Dreyno 🙂
Often the ould houses are better built than the new ones,
@@gamescentrel2951 They’re a rubble wall stuck together with lime. Or sometimes not even that. Earth and cowshite were also used. The stones might stand up for centuries but having spent time in houses like that, you wouldn’t want to live in one in winter.
Can verify. I live on the Roscommon/Mayo border and you can see the old ones abandoned, with the families / relatives having moved into a modern building nearby. Sad to see the old buildings let fall in. I did buy one of the old ones, we're still working on it, a WIP. My god, it is COLD in these! No need for AC in summer.
That’s nothing - you should see when my mother in-law moved in
Transporting an Irish Stone Cottage from Tyrone to Virginia, USA, 1984 1957pm 7.12.24 why does she do random sweep and clean interactions...?
@JJONNYREPP Who said she's a she.
pretty cool
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Transporting an Irish Stone Cottage from Tyrone to Virginia, USA, 1984 1955pm 7.12.24 couldn't build their own, then?
Do you not understand what a museum is ? It wouldn’t be a traditional Irish stone cottage if they used American stone.
@@tonemc6047 Comments on ‘Transporting an Irish Stone Cottage from Tyrone to Virginia, USA, 1984’ 9.12.24 0050am never mind. it's very rare one's intimations are projected via the written word...
Well I never
Early waltons 😂