Monday 27 August 2012

Heritage Council grant restores rural cottage


A GRANT of €6,000 from the cash-starved Heritage Council has resulted in the restoration of a 300-year-old thatched cottage near Dungarvan, Co Waterford – and paying guests can now enjoy staying in this authentic Irish rural farmhouse.
“It is romantic,” says Margaret Flanagan, proprietor of Coole Country Cottages. “It reminds you of what it might have been like to have lived in this cottage hundreds of years ago, with rough, thick walls and thatch pouring over its doors and windows.”
Read the article @ The Irish Times

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