grand

Tuesday 16th April 2019

Half way up the stairs, the first landing. The

wide staircase into the grand hall, the main

entrance at the end. The big stairs are central

to the hallway, a great window at the top of the

stairs. From the first landing, seperate stairs

go up the right hand and the left hand side of

the stairwell, the hallway rises to the full height of the building.

The view from the sofa down into the hall

is grand, with the chairs and sofa and the

big mantelpiece in marble at the fire. There

are works of art from the previous century, it

is all very grand. The sl to writers,

visitors who had come up the hill from

Dublin, via Rathfarnham and Balyboden.

It is a grand house, a big house built before the last century, all very fine. A huge leather sofa, this may have been there for a long time.