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Muckross House

  • Address: Killarney National Park, Muckross Demesne, Muckross Rd. (N71), 6½ km (4 mi) south of Killarney, Killarney, Co. Kerry
  • Phone: 064/663-1440
  • www.heritageireland.ie

Fodor's Review:

Muckross House, the famous 19th-century, Elizabethan-style manor, now houses the Kerry Folklife Centre, where bookbinders, potters, and weavers demonstrate their crafts. Upstairs, elegantly furnished rooms portray the lifestyle of the landed gentry in the 1800s; downstairs in the basement you can experience the conditions of servants employed in the house. Next door you'll find the Killarney National Park Visitor Centre. The informal grounds are noted for their rhododendrons and azaleas, the water garden, and the outstanding limestone rock garden. In the park beside the house, the Muckross Traditional Farms comprise reconstructed farm buildings and outbuildings, a blacksmith's forge, a carpenter's workshop, and a selection of farm animals. It's a reminder of the way things were done on the farm before electricity and the mechanization of farming. Meet and chat with the farmers and their wives as they go about their work. The visitor center has a shop and a restaurant.

  • Cost: Visitor center free, farms or house EUR 5.75, farms and house EUR 10
  • Open: House and Visitor Centre: Nov.-mid-Mar., daily 9-5:30; mid-Mar.-June, Sept., and Oct., daily 9-6; July and Aug., daily 9-7. Farms mid-Mar.-Apr., weekends 1-6; May, daily 1-6; June-Sept., daily 10-7; Oct., daily 2-6
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