The House Above...

The photo in the previous post of the old tumbledown cottage is "The House Above". It is on McCaffreys mountain in Co. Fermanagh and it is the house in which my paternal Grandfather was born. As a child when I would visit I always wanted to go up the mountain, I would go in around the old house, and in later years also, yet always thought it was just an old shed.......until early this year. Now it has taken on significance, it is not just any old tumbledown shed or cottage, it is where some of my family came from. It is known as the House Above and it is where my roots lie, it is special, it has history, it is home in a strange way. When I went up there after finding out the story behind it, I almost felt I was making a pilgrimage......what had always been a very special place and area to me suddenly became even more so. As a child I always felt at peace on this mountain, I still do. Strangely, one of my hobbies is hill walking!