Thursday, August 13, 2026

A simple shed...

 
This old abandoned sheep herders shed sits beside my brother TJ's cottage up in Donegal. He surmised that the previous owners of the house - an older, widowed woman who raised four special-needs kids in what was a two room shack - had started to dismantle it to use the stones for a partial wall that stood in the rear of the property. When TJ remodelled the cottage he used those wall stones as decorative facing on the entrance. This is how the old shed stands to this day...

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2 comments:

  1. Walling - which was the old Irish art of constructing a stone wall without mortar - has largely died out. Pity, as those walls can last for centuries.

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