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Sam’s Cottage

@samscottage.bsky.social

A traditional Irish cottage in Co Antrim, Ireland restored in 2023-24. "It is time now for me to build a house... A house which, seen, will be recognised As a dwelling and yet an outcrop, part of the place". John Hewitt www.samscottage.co.uk

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Sam’s Cottage is the winner of Best Home Upgrade award in the Royal Institute of Ulster Architects in 2026!

Restored cottage with owners and architect standing outside

Architect Patrick Bradley outside restored thatched cottage

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I have never seen one of these in Ireland before. Calliteara pudibunda, I think. My (gardening) fingers for scale at one point. Beautiful creature.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Photograph here

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

@trcava.bsky.social any idea what is happening here? I accept the they are not unusual on a fallen log, but at the base of (what I hope is) a healthy tree It's in Ireland.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Storm Amy in County Antrim. It is not so much the wind as the noise. The dog is a bit spooked.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Are spiders in Ireland bigger than they used to be? I don't ever remember seeing any as big as this when I was wee (unfortunately this one is no longer with us, but it is more compliant at being measured). 8cm leg span!

Spider beside ruler with legs extended to 8 cm.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A mast year, but the storms have taken their toll.

Acorns, some attached to small branches.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Late evening sun in Ireland.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Looking towards Mull. Beautiful.

Looking towards Mull in the Scottish Highlands

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Glorious. Sam's Cottage. Co. Antrim.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Wild garlic flowering, and a few little babies around.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Takes a little longer in Antrim… but we got there. @irishrainforest.bsky.social

Wood anenomes flowering in an Irish wood.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The celandines are out in Ireland 👍🏻

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Nine puppies, for the day that's in it.

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Anybody have any idea what these fungi are?

Cup shaped mushroom red inside and cream outside

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Sam’s Cottage @samscottage.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Townland features in Petty’s map of 1685 and Pat McKay has the first extant written record of it as 1605, from the Inquisition of Antrim taken on 12th July that year.