A personal reflection on growing up near a country house and being fascinated by the lives of the wealthy inhabitants.
I grew up just a few fields away from one of Sligo ’s finest country house s, Coopershill , set in 500 acres of farmland, deer pastures, woodland and gardens overlooking the river Unsin. I grew up watching Upstairs Downstairs , fascinated by the fine drawingrooms and the elegantly groomed people who inhabited them. Look at that, five-year-old-me thought – Lord and Lady Bellamy ring a bell and Hudson or Rose or a random footman miraculously appear.
In my 30s, I switched allegiance to Downton Abbey, fascinated by the weekly exploits of Lord Grantham and Lady Mary, Cousin Violet and Mrs Hughes. A three-storey Georgian mansion, it was built in the 18th century for current owner Simon O’Hara’s great-grandfather’s great-grandfather, Arthur Coope
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