Self-catering farmhouse at Narrowwater on Carlingford Lough, Co. Louth, Ireland

The house is called 'Quarvue'. It is located about 600m south of the border with Northern Ireland. Until about 1982 this was the home of the Cassley family. They are mentioned in the Hearth Tax Rolls for Cornamucklagh townland for 1776, and in the kitchen window you will find their name in a facsimile of the rent rolls of the Earl of Anglesey’s estate from the 1780s. The earliest reference to the family is in the poem Iomáin Léana na Bhádhbhdhuin – The Football Match in Bavan (a nearby townland) thought to date from the 1750s or earlier – in which a certain Ó Casalaigh acquitted himself well. The house was single-storey until about 1938, and was at least partially thatched into the 1920s. The Cassleys had a tradition of serving in the British Army and that may be the reason why, according to one local source, their thatch was lit during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). The lower walls are 28-34 inches thick and parts of the kitchen gable are even thicker. That is probably the oldest part of the house.

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