Doagh Famine Village is an outdoor museum that tells the story of life in the area from the Famine back in the 1840s, through the 1900s to the present day.
Different to any other tourist attraction in Ireland, the Famine Village depicts life in Ireland as it was, uncommercialised, interdenominational interspersed with humorous anecdotes of Irish life.
The Famine Village has a wide array of actual size attractions including original dwellings which were still inhabited little more than 20 years ago. Amongst the attractions that are shown and described by your affable host, local man Pat Doherty, are: -
- An Irish Wake
- Rural life, food and cures told in a humorous way
- Orange Hall
- Presbyterian Meeting House
- Mass Rock and Hedge School
- The Republican Safe House
- The Travelling Community