Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon…

I’m in the midst of researching and pulling together a book about my Slattery family’s history in the town of Kilrush in County Clare, Ireland. But their story is inextricably bound to the tale of their magnificent home, Bonnie Doon, which was built sometime in the 1830s or before by a Scotsman, James Paterson, who…