by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
Josephine Dermody gives a brief interview on her grandfather Jack Gilmore and father Bob Grady who were both gardeners at Clonbrock House belonging to one of the greatest of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Georgian & Victorian Gardens of Clonbrock -The...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
Mary Egan Glynn was an upstairs room maid at Clonbrock House. In this interview, she tells of her daily chores that included cleaning out the room fires, opening up the curtains, bringing up the breakfast tray and putting on the bath for her mistress. She also speaks...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
The Landed Estate – Self-Sufficient in Food During their heyday, the Anglo-Irish landed estates provided a large workforce of servants, craftspeople & farmhands and were pioneers in animal husbandry and crop production. Christy Carroll recounts how the...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
Christy Carroll continues his account of Clonbrock Estate with stories of the large staff at the Big House, on rounding up sheep with the dog with the crocked nose & the bog-loving pony. Christy also elaborates on his grandfather’s legendary prowess...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
Frank Gavin, Clonbrock’s last gardener, explains in this interview with the children of Fohenagh National School that even in its final days, the gardens were still very beautiful with lawns, rose bushes, heated glasshouses populated with tomotoes, grapes and...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
After nearly 400 years in residency the Dillons, once one of the most powerful of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, depart Clonbrock. Frank Gavin was one of the last two staff employed at the demesne. He talks of its final days when everything in the house and lands was put...
