Hijacking the thread here—
Why are they still vacant? Do the vacant houses still belong to English landlords? Are the houses taboo/sacred? Are they just empty b/c no one wants to live in them? It can’t be that hard to reroof, altho they are probably pretty small by today’s standards.
Just curious.
My mom was showing me some genealogy stuff the other night online. Kentucky census stuff from the mid 1800’s. A lot of those people were born in Kty, and listed their parent’s birthplace as Kty. It seems there were a lot more people here a lot earlier than what we “learned” in history class.
The houses are ruins basically. The great majority have been vacant for over one hundred years. Most are not very big, not much bigger than a log cabin. I guess the owners of the land where the ruined houses exist don’t really want to try to renovate them as it would probably be pointless. There’s also plenty of ruined castles around Ireland. The only inhabitants are probably ghosts of the people dead from from hunger or disease. Incidentally, from what we observed, many Irish now live in very nice houses.