Memento Mori
The Woodlawn House, abandoned for over 40 years. County Galway, Ireland. Boarded up using the interior doors. Tragic.An old man recalled that in the final days of multi-generational ownership and with the estate well in decline, he was employed as a 'butler's boy". His job was to retrieve the morning newspaper from town (1.5 miles round trip) and then press the sheets with an iron before giving it to the master of the house. A bit like Downton Abbey as written by Charles Dickens.
Memento Mori
The Woodlawn House, abandoned for over 40 years. County Galway, Ireland. Boarded up using the interior doors. Tragic.An old man recalled that in the final days of multi-generational ownership and with the estate well in decline, he was employed as a 'butler's boy". His job was to retrieve the morning newspaper from town (1.5 miles round trip) and then press the sheets with an iron before giving it to the master of the house. A bit like Downton Abbey as written by Charles Dickens.