(a description of ardrigh house can be found in chapter 4 of joseph connolly's "memoirs", , listed in further reading. bigger himself spelled its name "airdrie" in correspondence, and it was demolished in 1986 in order to build a block of flats.) there is a long list of such visitors, known as the "ardrigh coterie", including stephen gwynn, padraic colum, anna isabel johnston, and alice leticia milligan.