museums ireland

A 17th century two storey "Thatched Mansion". This was the home of Lory Meagher, a great hurling hero of the 1920s and 1930s. It has been restorded and refurbished to the 1884 period. It provides a unique insight into how a typical Irish wealthy farming family might have lived.

"Heroes of Hurling" is Ireland's first and only exhibition centre and museum dedicated to a single county's exploits in Gaelic Games. In a magnificent restored stone builidng, four display areas show a weal...

About the Gardens

The Japanese Gardens of Tully were created between the years 1906 and 1910. Devised by Colonel William Hallwalker, a wealthy Scotsman of a famous brewery family, the Gardens were laid out in their paths of beauty by the Japanese Eida and his son Minoru. Planned to symbolise the life of Man, the landscapes are now of international renown and are acclaimed as the finest Gardens in Europe.
The Irish National Stud Company was formed in 1945. Its primary aim was...

Limerick Museum won the first Gulbenkian Award in 1992. Its comprehensive displays illustrate the long and varied history of Limerick City and its surrounding area. The collection includes civic antiquities, artefacts from the Stone and Bronze Ages and Medieval times, award-winning examples of Limerick lace, a trades history display and a currency display....

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...

This museum describes and displays on what life was like in old rural times in Ireland and in Leitrim.  Old implement  and and machinery can be seen here....

Freemason's Hall is in the heart of Dublin near the National Library, the National Museum, Leinster House, and the National Gallery.
It is a mid Victorian purpose built in the 1860s from a prize winning design by the Birmingham architect, Edward Holmes.

It has been the headquarters of Freemasonry in Ireland since. The building houses a number of meeting rooms, each one of which is decorated in a different architectural style, including an Egyptian style room and a mock Gothic Room.