Starting with the Famine in the mid-1850s, the population of Ireland declined from 8 million to less than 3 million by the early 1920s. The Mizen Peninsula area was one of the hardest hit with the population dropping from more than 17,000 to perhaps 2,000 today. This abandoned two-up, two-down stone house and many others like it dot the country side and is a good reminder of different Time before the Age of Electricity, Automobiles, Central Heating and the Internet.