the quiet man heritage cottage

The history of the cinema is littered with major box-office 'hits' which after their fashionable success are forgotten, as surely as if they ended up on the 'cutting room floor'. However, there are some enduring classics which have developed a cult-following and high on this list is John Ford's greatest movie 'The quiet Man' starring Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald.
Shot in 1951 and released in 1952 it is set in the beautiful West of Ireland, with filming being centred in the village of Cong, on the Mayo-Galway border. These heady days are re-created in the Quiet Man Heritage Cottage/Cong Archaeological and Historical Exhibition.
Large numbers of people flock to the area to avail of guided tours of the various film locations. The Quiet Man Heritage Cottage is a novel concept which gives the visitor a total Quiet Man experience as if they were actually 'on-set'.
Located by the river at Circular Road, Cong, between actual locations used for filming, the ground floor of the cottage has been designed as an exact replica of the original set in Hollywood where the interior scenes were filmed.