This is part 6 of the renovation of our Irish Land Commission Cottage and looks at plastering, painting, the Velux window and fitting new internal sills. We also make choices regarding flooring, internal doors, stoves, bathrooms and the kitchen and white goods. We also go shopping to find the best deals. I also break down the costs of the renovation so far.
I begin with a tour of the very beautiful Reen Pier which is about 15 minutes from the cottage near to Union Hall. I finish off part 6 with a sneaky preview of the cottage nearing completion.
I talk a lot and use many old photos and videos to illustrate, I go off at tangents, I tell many family tales and anecdotes and I discuss and explain our thoughts, visions and plans for the cottage and I hope bring a very human family element to the tale with the personal journey by myself Peter Hayes and my wife Samantha to return the uninhabitable cottage to it’s former glory and to put into perspective why it is so important to us.
The cottage has always been owned by the Hayes family and as such there is a great deal of family history connected to it. It’s first residents were my great-grandmother Mary (1869-1944), two of her nine children Jack and Julia, and Julia’s daughter Eileen. There are unique photos of the construction in 1938, the original plans, photos from each decade and the story of the Reenogreena Hayes who lived there.
My grandfather Michael John Hayes was born in 1895 at Reenogreena, near Glandore in County Cork Ireland. One of nine children he joined the British Navy in 1917 emigrated to England. Five of his siblings Catherine Kate, Ellen, Mary, James and Jeremiah emigrated to America in the early 1900’s so the family has spread far and wide.
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Credit to : Pete Hayes Irish Odyssey