0:14:10 > 0:14:13- Hello, Margaret, I'm delighted to be here.- Great to have you.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18- Thank you very much. Look at the view you've got here.- Yes, it's very nice.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19Stunning, isn't it?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Cuilcagh Mountain, it dominates the entire landscape.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Cuilcagh Mountain is obviously important to you, then.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28You're in this landscape of Cuilcagh.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Well, I'm in the shadow of Cuilcagh.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33It's a backdrop to everything that we do.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Every photograph that was taken, Cuilcagh was always in it
0:14:36 > 0:14:39because we couldn't get rid of it and we didn't want to get rid of it.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43It was our meteorological compass always when we were young
0:14:43 > 0:14:45because the first place the rain arrives
0:14:45 > 0:14:47is on the western side of Cuilcagh Mountain.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50That's the first place the rain arrives
0:14:50 > 0:14:54and then I know that it will soon be, in 15 minutes, it'll be here.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56- An early warning, as it were. - An early warning.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58And it's something that never changes.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02I just feel it's just unscathed, it's a perfect mountain,
0:15:02 > 0:15:03as far as I'm concerned,
0:15:03 > 0:15:05and mountain people, like border people and island people,
0:15:05 > 0:15:08are that bit different because we have that as our security.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11All the time we've been having this wonderful conversation,
0:15:11 > 0:15:12it's been difficult
0:15:12 > 0:15:14because the most enticing smell is coming out of your cottage.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Come on in and get some of my home-made bread.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- I would love to.- Come on ahead.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26- Here we are.- Thank you very much. No point in sparing the butter.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29- No, you need loads of butter on everything.- You do.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31None of those modern sensibilities!
0:15:36 > 0:15:39The last time I sat in a house like this was 60-odd years ago
0:15:39 > 0:15:43in Donegal - a house that's beautiful and comfortable,
0:15:43 > 0:15:46but not connected to 20th century civilisation.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Would that be a true description of where we are?- Yes, that's true.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52We're self-sufficient in the sense
0:15:52 > 0:15:55that I carry my water from the spring well.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00I have oil lamps for my light.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03- No electricity?- No electricity, no.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07It can't be an easy way of life, is it?
0:16:07 > 0:16:10If you're doing it for 73 years, you get sort of used to it.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14The compensations are... You couldn't name them.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18The solitude, your roots in society, your feeling of who you are,
0:16:18 > 0:16:21your sense of identity, all those things
0:16:21 > 0:16:24make up for going down to carry up a couple of buckets of water.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32You've been here for 70-odd years.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34It's been in your family prior to that.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36My grandfather bought the house from his cousins
0:16:36 > 0:16:39who were emigrating to America in 1887.
0:16:39 > 0:16:44The deed's on the wall, actually, over there, drawn up on pig skin,
0:16:44 > 0:16:46and they bought the house,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49I think it was £30 10s 6d the whole thing cost.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53It's lovely. I'm aware of my roots here, I'm aware of who I am.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57The rootedness that you're explaining now and your family
0:16:57 > 0:17:00and the rootedness of the landscape, the rootedness of Cuilcagh,
0:17:00 > 0:17:02there's a kind of a correlation there.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Of course because you're walking on hallowed ground.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06You're walking in their footprints.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09They had to go to the well, they had to look down at Cuilcagh Mountain,
0:17:09 > 0:17:13they had to hump bags of turf and creels of turf
0:17:13 > 0:17:19and you realise what you have and you hold on to it.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20You're a lucky woman to be here
0:17:20 > 0:17:23and in an environment, in a snug, comfortable...
0:17:23 > 0:17:26I don't mean physically comfortable, I mean mentally comfortable.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Yes, mentally comfortable. Being happy with yourself.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31- I think it's great.- And at the lot that's been levelled out to you.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33I think you've done very well.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34- This is some hallway, isn't it?- Yes, it is.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Basil, this is a fine big house. What's its history?
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Well, it was established in the 1700s by Lord Enniskillen,
0:18:48 > 0:18:50which was then resident in Enniskillen.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55It got its name from his first wife, which was Florence,
0:18:55 > 0:18:57hence Florence Court.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01When he picked this site, did he pick it well?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04He did. It's a lovely setting because you've Cuilcagh Mountain,
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Benaughlin in the background.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10You have Lough Erne in the distance in the front.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Just a lovely landscape round it.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17There's not much more you could do for a nice setting than this.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22This would have been the original kitchen here.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27It's a strange kind of roof, like an umbrella-type roof.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29It is a strange roof, yeah.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31This stove was recently refurbished last year.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34It went across to England to get pieces made for it.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36- Is that the original stove? - It is the original, yes.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38- And can it be fired up?- Yes, it does.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42- It'll be fired here on some of the visitor days.- Right.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45- It works perfect. - But is this original?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48- These are original here, yeah. - Right.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50And this was the place where they cut the meat here.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53So meat was cut there and vegetables
0:19:53 > 0:19:55and stuff would have been in this area.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58And the baking and stuff would have been done from there, too.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02- Ah, if these tables could talk! - Yeah, they'd tell some stories.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10Basil, your personal connection with this place goes way back, doesn't it?
0:20:10 > 0:20:12My childhood days.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15A number of us used it as a play area when we were kids.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19We just came across the road, cos I lived on the other side.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20We used to pinch the strawberries
0:20:20 > 0:20:22and so on and so forth out of the walled garden.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24You would have got them if you'd asked,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26but they were nicer when you pinched them.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28- Of course!- They tasted better.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34It didn't stop you coming back later on, then,
0:20:34 > 0:20:35to work in the estate, did it?
0:20:35 > 0:20:38No, it didn't, no, but I started to volunteer in 1976.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40When you volunteered as what? What were you doing?
0:20:40 > 0:20:44Well, at that time, there was quite a few workmen here
0:20:44 > 0:20:47and I would have put hammers and spades and shovels
0:20:47 > 0:20:48and that for the workmen here at that time
0:20:48 > 0:20:52and maybe repair a blade on a lawnmower or something.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55That would have been... You didn't charge for it.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Are you the only volunteer?
0:20:57 > 0:21:00No, no, I think we've something around 150 volunteers in Fermanagh
0:21:00 > 0:21:03between the three properties and they do quite a lot of work.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06And the fact that you've been volunteering here for 40 years now,
0:21:06 > 0:21:09does that give you any status among the volunteers?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11No! It does not.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50So, first of all, to welcome you all here
0:21:50 > 0:21:52to the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark...
0:22:03 > 0:22:06So, just behind us here now, you've got Cuilcagh Mountain,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09where the park obviously takes its name from.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16This is the highest point in County Fermanagh.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19It's about 667 metres in height.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42If you take a look over here to your left-hand side,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44you'll see examples of some of the peat dams.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47This is one of over 1,200 dams
0:23:47 > 0:23:49that were actually constructed
0:23:49 > 0:23:51in this area of the mountain in front of you.