*Part of the original set design for the Oscar Nominated movie ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ A 19TH CENTURY PAINTED PINE SETTLE BED, the six panel back above a high seat, hinged and opening to reveal a fold out bed, painted in white and brown. 182cm (w) Provenance: Bennett's Bridge Folk Museum, Kilkenny Provenance: Part of the original set design for the Oscar nominated movie 'The Banshees of Inisherin' Seamus Heaney, ‘ The Settle bed’, 1991 “Willed down, waited for, in place at last and for good. Trunk-hasped, cart-heavy, painted an ignorant brown. And pew-straight, bin deep, standing four-square as an ark.” The settle bed, a fixture in Ireland since the early 17th century, serves as a long seat during the day and can be opened on hinges to transform into a double bed at night. Open-frame settles from the south-west of Ireland featured deep seats that served as single beds, differing from the hinged and opening settle beds. The high backs insulated the sitters from the cold damp walls of the cottages.