If you’re exploring Connemara and want to know more about the region’s history, then a visit to the Connemara Heritage & History Centre is highly recommended. It’s here, at this tourist center 6km from Clifden, that you’ll get an insight into Connemara, its cultural heritage, daily life, local agriculture and how peat is extracted. Fascinating!
The center is run by the friendly Breathnach/Walsh family. They offer friendly, informative tours about the history of their farm (established in 1991), the famous Connemara pony, and how they operate today.
The center offers a unique insight into the history and heritage of Connemara and the West of Ireland.
Discover who Connemara’s first settlers were in prehistoric times, their way of life, their dwellings…etc. The center features a life-size reconstruction of a circular fort and a crannog: the perfect way to project yourself back into Neolithic times!
But that’s not all! The center presents successive periods of local history, including the Middle Ages, with stories of clans, battles and castles.
It also deals with the sad subject of the Great Irish Famine, which also affected Connemara.
Finally, you’ll learn all about peat, the natural organic material used by the Irish as fuel for winter heating, whiskey distilling and many other uses! A centuries-old use, now in sharp decline: it has to be said that today’s peat bogs are being preserved for ecological purposes!
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