Ireland - Houses in Folk Park

If your area was prone to a lot of windy, you could tie down your roof.

A pile of peat outside the door ready to burn

Poorer families lived in a Byre. It's a type of home/land where you do not have a separate barn, and your livestock live in the home with you. This is the area for the livestock, with an angled trough for their waste to collect/flow out - opposite of this was the livingroom/kitchen with the fireplace, and a small bedroom behind that wall. I cannot imagine the SMELL. 

They had a bit of a petting zoo here (mostly sheep) with these two Irish Wolfhounds on display. We tried every trick in the book to get them to rouse or acknowledge us at all, no avail. They were not a fan of this arrangement at all, and just wanted to sleep. Other than these 2, we only saw one other Irish Wolfhound being walked by his owner around town. With everything being as tiny as it is there, I wonder where anyone would have room to keep such an animal as an indoor pet. 

This was the town doctors home, interior pics below.

This was a school, split up not by grades but by genders.

This was a new type of school which demanded attendance. 3 days out in a row and you were kicked out!

This school was a "new style" of education, wanting to primarily focus on reading, and arithmetic, and NOT on religious studies. They taught practical farm and machinery things to the boys and housekeeping and sewing things to the girls. Children were allowed to be exempted from religious education if they chose, and so protestants and catholics could go to school in the same place.  

Inside the Dr's house

Surgery? No problem!

A sewing room

They had a cute cafe there, so we ate before we left, because we were about to catch a ferry and didn't know what opportunity we'd have for food for awhile. 

For a cafeteria, it was AMAZING food!