Eanna Ni Lamhna We had the great pleasure of having Eanna Ni Lamhna here at The Old Rectory Country House to judge the Love Where You Live competition we entered earlier this year. We are blessed to love where we live, we enjoy both the foresight of those who have come before us with trees …
Group Stays in Ireland The Old Rectory Country House, Fenagh, Ballinamore, Leitrim, Ireland is the perfect place for your group stay, a beautifully restored listed Georgian property surrounded by majestic old trees and over looking Fenagh Lake. We offer boutique accommodation for 32, 20 our 4* self catering and 12 within the main house, we …
Church Wedding After great community effort St. Catherine’s Church looked beautiful on the day, it has been an incredible transformation over the past two years. The roof has been fixed, the floors redone, it has been painting and the biggest project the stain glass windows have been taken out and completely releaded and cleaned. But …
St. Catherine’s Church of Ireland I have always loved the church next door, St Catherine’s and for the past few weeks it has been getting the next phase of its face lift as it gets ready to host the second wedding in a century. The church as been very fortunate to have a great committee …
Why has the Book of Fenagh survived for 500 years? This past weekend the community of Fenagh and those related to it came together to celebrate the Book of Fenagh, and what a great weekend it turned out to be. I was lucky enough to attend most of the lectures and we got an in …
Aoife’s off to her Debs After a mad day of running around getting her nails done, then her hair, which Siobhan did after many practice sessions, and finally her makeup, it was time for the photo shoot, my favourite part of the day recording the memories. Pictures taken on the steps of The Old Rectory …
Trinity College Dublin Have spent the last four days in and around Dublin and Aoife and I went to see the Book of Kells and to see the Long Library in Trinity both amazing experiences, have some quilting ideas with some of the Book Durrow patterns if I can find the one I like on line. …
A few years ago the lake completely froze over except for some little springs that you could see. We even saw the paw prints of a fox walking out to the islands in the snow on top of the ice. If you skim a piece of ice along the top of the frozen lake it makes the most …
Carrowkeel just outside of Castlebaldwin on the way to Sligo is one of a complex of 14 passage cairns situated across a number of hills which are part of the Bricklieve mountain range. Carrowkeel is one of a series of limestone plateau aligned towards Knocknarea. There are three cairns on the top of Carrowkeel …
Fenagh is an area steeped in history with a wide variety of archaeology all in the one place. Fenagh has two Abbey’s, a beautiful Dolmen, Standing stones, a Court tomb, known locally as the Giants graves and a Fairy fort. There are not many places in Ireland that have all these historical landmarks in the one place. …