Abandoned cottages speckle the Mayo countryside. Combining the hard evidence of census records, maps and onsite investigations with imagined, fact-based dialogue, I attempt to bring one home, and the people who lived there, back to life, if only for a few moments.

Acknowledgements

• https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

• https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/view

• Patrick Kavanagh’s wonderful poem, If ever you go to Dublin Town