This elegant lady is my great grandmother Agnes Mulheron. She was born in 1872 in Magee's Spirit store (Now Mannie's) and she was the youngest of the five daughters of my great, great grandparents, John and Margaret Magee.

Agnes was only ten years old when her mother died. Immediately the Parish Priest announced that " a public house was no place for a young girl to grow up" so the priest insisted that young Agnes was sent away from her home to a girls' boarding school in Harrogate, where the priest's sister was a teacher. It was there that Agnes received a privileged, middle class education, and she trained as a teacher. It is thought that Harrogate is where Agnes also received a taste for the finer things in life, a passion that has been passed down the generations of Magee's , Mulheron's, Fitzsimons's, Vogt's and Van Vogt's ...and my mum says my Great Grandmother is where I get my love for fine china, Irish linen, antiques and "doing things nicely" -

Mum's words not mine! And perhaps Agnes Mulheron would approve of how we do afternoon tea at Margaret's Cottage.

Five years after Agnes Magee and Joe Mulheron married in 1899, John Magee died and bequeathed Magee's Spirit Store to Agnes, whereupon the couple bought the property outright, from the Beauclerks and turned it into a Commercial Hotel.

If Trip Advisor had been around in the early 20th Century, I imagine this lady would also have got many, many five star reviews for her warm hospitality, her fabulous food and her very high standards. I think it is in the genes!