73 Sandhills

This day last week we had the local elections. Sandhills is on a border so half the estate votes for one area and half the other.
We were able to vote for the town council and the county council. There are a number of websites that gave information of the elections - including one I reviewed on my [...]

Here’s a map of the estate itself. It’s a large estate but the layout makes it feel much smaller. At this stage we would be very familiar with most of the people on our street. The other neighbours we tend to meet on the central green area or during residents association meetings.
Number 73 is marked. [...]

For those of you that don’t know where Sandhills in Carlow actually is - here’s a map.
Basically it’s on the Hacketstown road - right behind the new SuperValu.

Compare this photo taken during the summer of 2008 to the original satellite photo and you’d find it hard to imagine that they are the same place. The aerial photo gives a really good impression of how pristine the estate is.

This is presumably the first photo of the house - courtesy of Google Earth. It was probably summer 2005 - a short while before we saw it for the first time. In the end - our home was the first one on the street to be finished. When we moved in it was like living [...]