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The house is said to be three hundred and seventy-five years old , but we are convinced that this is a wicked understatement of its antiquity . It must have been built since the Deluge , else it would at least have had one general spring cleaning in the course of its existence . Cromwell had been there too , and in the confusion of his departure they must have forgotten to sweep under the beds . We entered our rooms at ten in the evening , having dismissed our car , knowing well that there was no other place to stop the night . We gave the jarvey twice his fare to avoid altercation , ` but divil a penny less would he take , ' although it was he who had recommended the place as a cosy hotel . `` It looks like a small little house , melady , but 't is large inside , and it has a power o ' beds in it . '' We each generously insisted on taking the dirtiest bedroom -LRB- they had both been last occupied by the Cromwellian soldiers , we agreed -RRB- , but relinquished the idea , because the more we compared them the more impossible it was to decide which was the dirtiest .