Overview

This place caught our eye when we saw signs to it on our way to Malin Head (Ireland's most northerly point), and we were glad we went to have a look. "Famine Village" sounds a bit grim - and trust me, as a British visitor you will hear some stuff about your Victorian ancestors that does not make you proud - but it's as much a museum of Irish rural life in better times as a place that tells the story of a tragedy. A major bonus was the tour given by a man who had actually lived in one of the traditional houses there as a child in the 1970s and early 1980s, and he told us all about local customs, food and drink - even offering round samples of poteen, the potent Irish moonshine. As far as access goes, it was a bit tight at the entrance/shop area, but I was easily able to get into everywhere else on the site on my small scooter. There were wheelchair-accessible loos in the village site and the snack bar across the car park that were both a bit tatty but big and clean, and a highlight of the visit was that my scooter coped OK with the path across the beautiful sand dunes near the museum.

Transport & Parking

Big car park outside the museum with plenty of spaces.

Access

Toilets

Bit tatty but big and clean with enough rails for me.

Staff

The staff were helpful and informative, and opened more suitable ways in for me on my scooter when things got a bit tight around the entrance/shop area.

Anything else you wish to tell us?

As with everywhere we visited in the Republic of Ireland at this time, mask-wearing indoors was well observed.

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