Hi Meredith,it was good to hear from you , and trust that you are enjoying living in Ravenswood.
Our family lived there in the fifties ,our father was managing director at a textile factory in Clohamon not far away .
It really was a beautiful place to live, the majority of the land ,we grew barley for the Guinness brewery, we also had our own
Cow for milk ,a large number of poultry and fattening pigs , are the pig stye,s still intact??.
In those days we had a generator to provide electric,and the water supply was pumped from the bottom of the drive inside a clump of shrubs near the lodge, and was then pumped to a large tank in the top field then free flowed to the house.
A man called George Earl lived in the lodge then and did light work for us and if I remember rightly a fellow called Eddie plunket who lived down the Bunclody road used to help out weeding the drive.
Blissful days ,I am now in my seventies but still remember the good time we spent there, I sincerely hope you will be as happy, Take care and thank you for getting in touch. If I can recall any thing else I will try and write them down . Neil Carter
