Another wonderful post via @theirishaesthete featuring Hidden Ireland member, Collon House.
Collon House, County Louth was the birthplace and lifelong residence of John Foster, last speaker of the Irish House of Commons. As constructed by his father Anthony c.1740, the building was an extended version of the traditional Irish ‘long house’, in this case running two storeys and eighteen bays. It seems to have contained a series of long, low rooms, none very substantial. Many of these survive and testify to the determinedly modest condition of the family’s living conditions: when Anthony Foster invited a cousin to stay around 1766 he warned that a shared room should be expected, presumably due to the number of other guests due at the same time.
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