Cavan County Museum Ballyjamesduff Co. Cavan Ireland
Cavan County Museum Ballyjamesduff has an extensive range of exhibition galleries feature unique artefacts dating from the stone age up until the twentieth century, material spanning over 6000 years of occupation in Cavan. Displays of notable interest include the Killycluggin stone and the three-faced Corleck Head, two of the most recognisable examples of Celtic spirituality in the country.
The museum alsohouses a medieval Dug-Out boat and a selection of medieval Sheela-na-Gigs, as well as a Folk Life gallery depicting life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Newly-opened galleries deal with topics as diverse as the Great Famine, Percy French and the Lords Farnham. Our temporary exhibition space plays host to regular art shows given by local and national artists.
Opening times:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. (from 3rd July - 25th September)
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Cavan County Museum - WWI Trench Tour - Ireland
Taking the kids to a different kind of experience - or different kind of museum in this case - we decided to head to Cavan County Museum where they would be able to enjoy the WWI Trench Tour inside and try to build a picture about how it all went back then - we also enjoyed visiting this place and going through this experience.
Cavan County Museum is a museum that is dedicated to the history of county Cavan; it aims at collecting, conserving, and displaying the material heritage and culture of county Cavan and its environs. Inside the museum there are different galleries that display different things for the public and every single place might need a special visit in order to be inspected and everything inside it be fully seen.
There are different exhibitions held inside the Cavan County Museum - we were even surprised by all these but didn't get the chance to visit and enjoy them all - which include the GAA history, the medieval times, the great famine, the Farnham gallery, the pighouse collection, the nun's story, the Percy French, folklife gallery, the boat room, the archaeology room, the historical sites, as well as the WWI Trench experience which is the one we headed to and knew more about.
Seeing the Trench sign on the outside of this tour, we decided to head inside and see what this place carries for us. There are actually several things in this place that look exactly like the time of the war and which we were very excited to bring our imaginations to life through and see how the soldiers used to sleep, eat, and even see the small clinic where they were getting their treatment at.
Once you enter the trench, you will be placed in small passage where the soldiers used to hide from the shooting and shoot back whenever needed - there are also some recorded sentences which were said by the soldiers and you will even hear some shootings in the background as some kind of delivering the feeling of being truly in the place - and from this passage one will get the chance to come to those small rooms which were used for special things.
After entering the trench and walking a little bit within this thin passage, you will then move forward to reach the clinic where the soldiers were receiving their treatment and curing their wounds from the war - it is so small, thanks God they managed to treat them - and then we kept moving forward to reach the place or the room where the soldiers used to make the plans and were their head used to sleep - seems not so comfortable but the kids thought it was =)
One question kept coming to our minds - how did they manage to do everything successfully in such very small places?! =) - it was really interesting to get in a place that tells us how it was all and the WWI soldiers used to make their plans and pass their days - I think the kids got really excited as well about wearing those clothes and hats of the soldiers - gave them a little bit of the feeling =)
If you are willing to visit this place in county Cavan, Ireland, then make sure that you are heading there anytime from Saturday to Tuesday from 10 AM to 5 PM, other than that you might find it closed, and also make sure to check the working times during any holidays because you might find a change of plan as well.
For those who will be already in county Cavan to visit the Cavan County Museum, or even for any other different reason, there are still other places which one might pass by, such as visiting the Saunderson Castle which we have been to as well ( as well as visiting the Cavan Cathedral, going to Kingscourt Park, Virginia for theater and lake, going to Cavan Burren Park, Dun A Ri Forest Park, Cloughoughter Castle, Jacobean Church, and many other things which might differ from one person to another according to what every single one prefers to see and come closer to.
All in all, we could say that it was not the excitement of the kids but we were also excited about getting the experience of the World War One just like them and see how the soldiers used to handle their days during the war - sleeping, eating, being looked after, and all this different things that shaped their everyday life.
We have to mention that Ireland is filled with different destinations that one could go to and visit, you just have to pick the city or the county and make a place with all those different locations that are close to where you are going to stay. Of course it will be always easier for Irish people who could keep visiting places every now and then and not like those tourists who come from other parts of the world.
You could also check some of our latest videos from trips in Ireland and Northern Ireland like the one in Crawfordsburn in county Down, Dublin ( or any of the other ones.
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Cavan County Museum Ballyjamesduff Co. Cavan Ireland
Cavan County Museum houses a comprehensive collection of ancient artefacts some of which was found locally
Cavan County Museum
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Percy French in Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff, Cavan, Ireland
Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan has an extensive exhibition about Percy Prench. Percy French spent some of his working life in Co. Cavan and penned a number of his songs and poems during this time. One of his most famous songs Come Back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff is about the Jarvey he used while working in the area.
Cavan County Museum 1916 exhibition opening night
The Cavan/Leitrim Narrow-gauge Day Trip to Arigna May 26th 1958
This Cavan/Leitrim Narrow-gauge railway video was filmed on a Day Trip to Arigna from Ballinamore on May 26th 1958. I would like to thank Noel McPartland from Drumshanbo County Leitrim and his Museum Glimpses of The Past for giving me permission to use this video.
Stills courtesy of Michael Davies
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Cavan County Museum August 2016
Andy Cooney Musical Tour of Ireland visit Cavan County Museum 7 10 2014
Cavan Co Museum May 2015
Martin Gaffney, Brenda Castles, Antóin MacGabhann and Mick Maloney play a slection of tunes at Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff at the launch of The Ed Reavy Traditional Music Festival - Mick Maloney presented a lecture on the importance of Reavys music and was then joined on stage for a selection of tunes
Cavan County Choir perform at Fermanagh County Museum
As part of the International Fund for Ireland Culture Cavan project, Cavan County Choir perform at Fermanagh County Museum, Enniskillen September 2013.
Open Family Day - Cavan County Museum
Open Family Day - Cavan County Museum
Explore Cavan County Museum during heritage week and experience life in the trenches and visit the galleries from Clogh Oughter to the famine and listen to the music of Cavan Town Comhaltas.
Áine Duffy talks to Savina Donohoe, Curator Cavan County Museum at Cavan Military and Historical Ev
Cavan Military and Historical Event Committee two day event on Saturday 18th August and Sunday 19th took place with a large collection of Military Vehicles at the Courthouse, Entertainment by the Song Sisters in the Market Square along with UN Vehicles and talks about military history in the Farnham Arms Hotel Cavan . The event also featured a circuit of Cavan Town by the Military Vehicles and a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the WW1 Memorial in Con Smith Park. An Irishwebtv.com Media Group Production
[Wikipedia] Cavan County Museum
Cavan County Museum (Irish: Músaem Chontae an Chabháin) is a museum dedicated to the history of County Cavan. The museum is housed in the former Convent of St Clare in Ballyjamesduff.
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Cavan County Museum Comhaltas Seisiún 7 8 12 Week 4
This year is the final year for Cavan to host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann and in celebration of that the Cavan branch of Comhaltas are providing a Seisiun every Tuesday night in the Co Museum Ballyjamesduff to give a flavour of this years Fleadh
Cavan County Museum WW1 Trench Experience
Percy French Remembered at County Cavan Museum
We've dropped into the outstanding County Cavan Museum found in Ballyjamesduff. The museum is housed in the former Convent of St Clare ( Poor Clare nuns ) overlooking the town. It's remit was to collect, conserve and display the material heritage and culture of County Cavan, over its 6000-year history.
The Percy French Gallery includes a short video of music and songs of Percy French. Cavan County Museum has been very fortunate to receive from the Percy French Society in Bangor a large and varied number of Percy French related items for display purposes. Material on show includes six of Perch French’s original water colour paintings, as well as a large amount of photographs and letters of Percy’s. Cavan County Museum thanks the Percy French Society for their support and co-operation in assembling such a vivid tribute to Cavan’s favourite adopted son.
Percy French 1854-1920
William Percy French was born in 1854 at Cloonyquin House, near Elphin, County Roscommon, the son of a landlord. He began songwriting when studying Engineering at Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated from TCD as a civil engineer in 1881 and joined the Board of Works in County Cavan as a self-styled 'Inspector of Drains'. It is said that he wrote his best songs during this period, including the world-famous 'Come back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff'.
County Roscommonof landscape watercolours and considered art to be his true vocation. In fact, when he became well-known later in his life, his paintings from his time as a civil engineer became fashionable and sought after.
When the Board reduced its staff around 1887, French was laid off, and turned to journalism as the editor of The Jarvey, a weekly comic paper.
When the paper failed, French's long and successful career as a songwriter and entertainer began. He became renowned for composing and singing comic songs and gained considerable distinction with such songs as 'Phil the Fluther's Ball', 'Slattery's Mounted Fut', and 'The Mountains of Mourne'. But perhaps one of French's most famous songs is 'Are Ye Right There Michael', a song ridiculing the state of the rail system in rural West Clare. The song caused such embarrassment to the railway company that it led to a libel action against French, though this ultimately failed.
William Percy French died from pneumonia in 1920 at the age of 65 while on tour in northern England. He was buried in Formby in Lancashire. French was twice married; his first wife Ethel Armytage Moore, who was from Cavan, died as a result of childbirth in 1891, with their infant daughter dying some weeks after.
He married again in 1894, this time to a young Englishwoman named Helen Sheldon. Their union was a long and happy one, producing three daughters.
Aine Duffy is in the Cavan County Museum for the Annual Arthur Griffith Lecture
Aine Duffy talks to this years special Guest Retired Commandant Leo Quinlin in the Cavan County Museum for the Annual Arthur Griffith Lecture. He hosts a lecture on the Seige of Jadotville which his father Commandant Pat Quinlan fought .The true story of Jadtaville. Cavan's O.N.E presented him with a momentum of his lecture at Cavan's Military and Historical Event last year. Living history..An Irishwebtv.com Media Group Production.
The Cavan Trench Experience
Originally produced in 2018, this film focuses on the Cavan Trench Experience, which is part of a World War 1 exhibition found at the Cavan County Museum.
“The Cavan Trench Experience” looks at this exhibition as well as the Irish soldiers who fought in the trenches during the First World War. This is told through an interview with the Research and Education Officer for Cavan County Council, Dr. Michael Finnegan.