museums ireland

The Kerry Museum and the Geraldine Experience can be found in Tralee’s Ashe Memorial Hall, located at the end of Denny Street. As one of the towns top tourist attractions, the museum is always busy making the experience that little bit more authentic as all the people around you become as engrossed in 15th century living as you.
Follow the museums chronological route where you will meet Kerry’s first settlers in the Late Mesolithic site at Ferriter’s Cove on the Dingle Peninsula. Her...

Andrew Jackson Centre, Boneybefore, Carrickfergus. Traditional Ulster-Scots thatched farmhouse, adjacent site where parents of Andrew Jackson 7th President of USA left for America in 1765. Display on President Jackson's life and career, his Ulster relations and rural Ulster life....

Thatched roadside museum furnished as a traditional farmhouse. Exhibitions, coffee shop and crafts.. Open Monday - Saturday plus Sunday afternoon May - September, Sunday afternoon only in winter....

General Description: Situated in a beautifully restored 19th century Georgian residence, the Centre features a unique audio-visual interpretative museum on the North Kerry Writers including John B. Keane, Bryan MacMahon, George Fitzmaurice, Brendan Kennelly and Maurice Walsh. Also includes the Literary Café and Restaurant, a gift & book shop, archival library, and annual arts & literary programmes. Seanchaí is a museum of words & spirit where the imaginative worlds of t...

Beaulieu House Beaulieu House was built between the years 1661 and 1667 by Sir William Tichborne. It had originally belonged to the Plunkett family but it had been mortgaged in 1639 and it was confiscated in 1642 by Cromwellian troops, to avenge the participation of William Plunkett, who sided with the Royalists. Tichborne's father bought out the mortgage and when Charles II returned to England, he granted Tichborne full possession. During the reign of Charles, there was an upsurge in 'improvem...

Some of Armagh's finest architecture surrounds the Mall. At the north end, the Court House with its classical portico was completed by Johnston in 1809. The stones left over from it went into the building of the nearby Sovereign's House, now the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum. Although the Regiment no longer exists (it became part of the Royal Irish Rangers in 1968) the museum is considered as one of the best in the Army and has a very fine collection of medals and uniforms, some of them unique...

Also known as Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan Museum traces the development of Dungarvan and the West Waterford area from the Ice Age through the Norman, medieval and Georgian periods. It features a historic photographic collection....

Established in 1967, the folk museum was the brainchild of Fr. James McDyer, who moved to Glencolmcille in 1951. On his arrival, Fr. McDyer recognized the lack of proper services in the area and set about promoting industry and providing better facilities within the parish. The Folk Museum was central to Fr. McDyer's plan in maintaining the traditional culture of the Glencolmcille area....