Have you seen anything like this before?

We had fires in 2022 that were a little farther away.

Um, it's not that uncommon.

These, uh, were bigger, as everybody has said.

Um, I don't need to go into the details because you've had that on the news from other people.

And we had fires that were not too far away that did the same job in the, um, in, in the big pine forests, um, which seems to be one of the main issues, um, uh, that's, uh, they, it's all the, these planting of the pines.

I'm not an expert in that, so I'm not gonna go into it.

I- is it frightening? I, I can't really imagine being caught up in all of this.

Cian Murphy brings me through the house.

When it was built in 1722, it belonged to the Connollys until 1975.

Des McGuinness was the underbidder at the sale.

Two years later, he got the money together and he bought the house with 120 acres and saved it.

In the 1990s, when the state took over, they took down all of the architectural pieces, numbered them, replaced them, repaired them, and put it all back together again.

So she had to deal with that extraordinary failure of the essential requirement of being an aristocratic woman, which was to have children.

The Long Gallery is huge, and yet Louisa did everything up there.

She put on plays at one end, she'd eat at the other.