pendant lights and modern appliances. The landscaped rear garden has its own terrace, and at the bottom of the manicured lawn is a substantial studio/summer house.

The landscaped rear garden has its own terrace, and at the bottom of the manicured lawn is a substantial studio/summer house.

That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled roofs, said Lafferty. "It could have taken three years to gather up the stones to build a ...

A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape. In a hall in Portnoo ...

But he lamented that younger people don't have his "deep well of lived experience to draw from". That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled ...