The Great House Revival

Hugh Wallace meets people transforming derelict properties into modern home, beginning with an Australian cabinet maker restoring a Co Mayo house with 110 rooms.

Murray Rees has always wanted to live in an elegant old townhouse and couldn’t believe his luck when he found one he could afford in North Inner City Dublin. Buildings in this area were used as bedsits and had fallen into total disrepair. Murray is keen to save this 1840s building and return it to its full potential.

Ronan Fitzpatrick and his fiancé Mary Rahill are restoring a local two-room schoolhouse built in the 1890s as their family home. It has extra significance for Ronan as he and his father before him went to school there as children.

Dublin born Fiona Kelly has serious ambition. Having purchased a dilapidated Georgian terraced house in the heart of Phibsborough in north Dublin, she has a mammoth project on her hands. With slanted door frames, crooked floors and a tumbling roof, Fiona and her building contractor friend Philip, have taken on a building on the brink of collapse.

With three children all under the age of 5, Belinda and Lorcan Carpenter have decided to convert three farmyard barns into their dream family home. Set in the picturesque hills of the Wicklow Carlow border on the grounds of Belinda’s childhood home Munny House, the barns need extensive renovation and conversion work in order to transform the dilapidated donkey house into a bespoke family home.

This week, Karen Whyte and her partner Donnacha Curley, purchased Grove House a few years ago with a plan to save it from dereliction. Empty for years, the building was damp, water-damaged, and largely unloved. A native of Westport, Karen is keen to restore the building back to the grand home it once was.

Rob has a slim budget and a tight deadline in which to transform his bargain-price Victorian villa into a family home.

Hugh Wallace meets Tiktok star Maryrose, who’s renovating her grandmother’s former home, where her family have lived for five generations.

Kelly and Paddy plan to build a comfortable modern home within the walls of an 1830’s mill. It’s missing every one of its 43 windows and most of its roof and floors, but these thirty-somethings see beyond the ruination and set about converting it.

Hugh follows couple Mary-Claire and Sully as they transform a Georgian house into a modern home while paying homage to the building’s rich past.

Architect duo Rob and Alfonso take on the task of restoring their historic terraced house into a stylish, contemporary home. Can they achieve their dream of creating a unique home and workspace with the perfect balance of old and new?

Paul buys back his former family home and takes on the mammoth task of restoring it himself. With dry rot, a leaking roof and rotten beams standing in his way, can he save his old childhood home, and his mother’s pride and joy, from ruin?

Hugh Wallace is back to chart the highs and lows of home restorations in Ireland. In episode 1 Hugh is at the restoration of a former Post Office, in Butlerstown, Co. Cork

Restaurateur Aoibheann MacNamara is embarking on an ambitious but sensitive restoration of an old Land Commission cottage in the middle of the protected environment of the Burren.

Lough Key, Co. Roscommon: A derelict cowshed on a grand estate finds new life as a contemporary family home.

After working two jobs and diligent saving for his first home in Kilkenny, homeowner Sean Hickey now has the keys to transform his dream home in this week's Great House Revival.

Architect Hugh Wallace helps Roscommon couple Mary Morris and Colm Dowd are creating their first home together - the Old Bank in Elphin

Architect Hugh Wallace meets Kilkenny-based Trish Duffe, who is downsizinig from her four-bedroom home in Carlow to a smaller house in Kilkenny, closer to her elderly parents