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Mrs Dotie Mahoney lived here in the mid 20th century. She had no clock in the house for a long time and she'd sometimes head across the fields to get water from an adjacent well in the middle of the night. Local schoolchildren used to say Dotie had a hole in her head and that she had been shot by the Black & Tans. The house was built by Dinny Mahoney with a single concrete gable with fireplace and chimney and the remainder was a cavity timber and corrugated structure. The house had a loft bedroom which was reached by ladder. Dotie was waked in the house when she died. Dinny was a builder but why he chose not to have 4 solid walls is uncertain - his sister paid for the house, putting the funds on account in a hardware & supplies shop so that Dinny would not have direct access to the money but to the materials instead.
