This house was built as a Land Commission house.

It came into being during a period of Irish history shaped by loss of land, displacement, and long uncertainty. For many families, houses like this offered something that had been absent for generations. A home tied to land. A place where roots could be put down. A sense of continuity that could be passed on rather than taken away.

Land was never only practical. It carried identity, survival, and memory. To belong to land meant safety and the possibility of a future. This house stood on ground that was worked and depended upon, and in time, deeply known by those who lived here.

Within its walls, life unfolded across generations. Families laboured, rested, gathered, and endured. Children were raised. Stories were told and retold. Other experiences were carried without words, held in bodies and relationships, and passed quietly from one generation to the next. Like many homes of its time, this house absorbed both strength and struggle.

The land sustained family life, and the house offered shelter and continuity. Together, they held the people who lived here.

Today, it continues to do so.
While the work carried out here now is different in form, it remains connected.People come carrying lives shaped not only by personal experience, but by what has been inherited. Attention is given to the ways family, land, and history move through generations, often unseen. There is space to name what has been carried, to understand it, and where possible, to soften its weight.

Intergenerational healing does not ask for forgetting. It asks for presence, listening, and relationship with the past.

As the year comes to a close, the house continues its life as a place of care and reflection. The work taking place here is rooted in its history and shaped by the people who come through it. The house remains in use, evolving gradually, with further changes planned for the year ahead.

Happy Christmas, I hope you get to take rest, replenish, and feel present.