The Kerry Bog Village, located on the beautiful Ring of Kerry gives you a fascinating insight into how people lived and worked in Ireland in the late 19th Century. The village is the only one of its kind in Europe and is one of Kerry’s leading tourist attractions.

The Kerry Bog Village explores Ireland’s rural history, heritage and lifestyle. Visitors will experience the culture, customs and living conditions of our great ancestors through the famine years, and late 19th century.

The Kerry Bog Village is an open-air museum situated in west County Kerry focused on the culture and history of Ireland. [1] [2] It is a tourist stop on the Ring of Kerry, [3] between the towns of Killorglin and Glenbeigh. [4] The outdoor museum recreates traditional Irish thatched cottages and the lives of their inhabitants during the 19th ...

Located at the foot of Ireland’s highest mountain range, the McGillicuddy Reeks, the Kerry Bog Village Museum is one of the many gems on the Ring of Kerry (see my photos here), a picturesque 111-mile drive around the Iveragh Peninsula that remains popular among foreigners and locals alike.

The Kerry Bog Village Museum is situated half way between Killorglin and Glenbeigh on the main Ring of Kerry route in County Kerry. The museum gives visitors the opportunity to enjoy a step back in time to the early 18th century to recapture the way life would have been at that time.

The Kerry Bog Village, located on the beautiful Ring of Kerry gives you a fascinating insight into how people lived and worked in Ireland in the late 19th Century. The village is the only one of its kind in Europe and is one of Kerry’s leading tourist attractions.

The exhibition, Kingship and Sacrifice, is the result of the findings of the National Museum of Ireland’s Bog Bodies Research Project, which was established in 2003 following the discovery of two Iron Age bog bodies at Oldcroghan, Co. Offaly and Clonycavan, Co. Meath.

Located on the Ring of Kerry circuit, this interactive museum takes visitors back in time to the era of Irish peasantry and peat mining. And to do so, we’ve recreated a 19th-century village from scratch, where peat mining was the mainstay of life!

This museum recreates a 19th-century bog village, typical of the small communities that carved out a precarious living in the harsh environment of Ireland's ubiquitous peat bogs. You'll see the thatched homes of the turfcutter, blacksmith, thatcher and labourer, as well as a dairy, and meet Kerry bog ponies (a native breed) and Irish wolfhounds.

Aug 20, 2023 · Two actual ruins of cottages with heartrending stories of eviction and starvation. Iconic animals: Bog ponies and Irish wolfhounds. Well worth visiting.