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Knock Museum
The Apparition in
Context - Folklife
Knock, County
Mayo, Ireland
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Hen
Backet
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Crafts
Tools used by: shoemaker, carpenter, blacksmith
and basket-maker.
Most people in rural Ireland made a living by
farming the land see plough, harrow, seeder,
slanes, turf barrows and cleeves.
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'A Museum within a
Museum'
The thatched cottage built inside the Museum is a
two-roomed dwelling typical of houses in County Mayo at the
time of the Apparition with its roof of straw, half door,
open fire and hag bed.
The Kitchen
Furniture
- Including a variety of household furniture . . . . .
. See the handcarved wooden press made in Knock in
1918.
Clothing
View examples of clothing worn in 1879 . . . . . A
christening robe, handmade locally, an example of fine
needlework.
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