Episode Two
The Old Bank, Elphin, Roscommon
Elphin native, Mary Morris grew up in a village that was book-ended by her mother, Mai’s sweet shop on one end, and her father, Paddy’s butcher shop at the other. Years later she met the love of her life, Colm Dowd, in a bar in the heart of the Elphin Village.
When Mary and Colm first met and fell in love, they both owned their own homes. But now they want to create their first home together. And no better place than the old bank directly across the road from the pub where they first met. They have already successfully converted the old banking hall into Mary’s new shop premises, and are now turning their attention to the old bank residence that hasn’t been lived in for over thirty years. The residence is a neglected space that has allowed damp and mould to thrive. But Mary and Colm have a vision that lets them see past all the moisture, allowing them to turn this behemoth of a building into not only into their home, but also their sanctuary.
Though this big old building has no sway with romance, it keeps giving…endless leaks and patches of damp. Will this vast “ship” of a home ever dry out in time to make it habitable?
