10,000 years of history; The Irish National Heritage Park in photos

 

The photographs below illustrate the fine collection of buildings found at the Irish National Heritage Park in Wexford, where I’ve just spent a very enjoyable day. This excellent tourist attraction in the sometimes sunny southeast has a large number of reconstructed archaeological sites. These range in date from the Mesolithic, when the first people settled in Ireland, right up until the medieval period and the arrival of the Anglo-Normans. The Park has been undergoing a major face lift for the last year or so and this is really starting to bear fruit now. There are some excellent new exhibits and structures on display and when I visited today re-enactors from Mogh Roith Living History GroupDublin Living History SocietyGael agus Gall and  Montague Heritage Services were on hand to provide extra information on early medieval life and trade. If you are ever in the southeast region the Heritage Park comes highly recommended.

 

The Mesolithic campsite

 The large Neolithic house

 

Interior of the Neolithic house

 The smaller Neolithic house

The ringfort

The ringfort interior

Inside one of the ringfort round houses

The ringfort tower

 The resident pigs

The Early Christain monastery

The church

The painted high cross

The monastic garden

The early medieval horizontal mill

Inside the mill

The corn-drying kiln

The crannog

 

Wooden bowls on display

15 thoughts on “10,000 years of history; The Irish National Heritage Park in photos

  1. All that history and glory and nobody in Ireland, today, remembers. A sad and tragic end for a great civilisation.

    1. Bit of a sweeping statement there Seamus ,There are many people who respect and are aware of our cultural background and achievements.

  2. Nice pics, Colm, thank you.

    Reading the text on the ‘Celtic-Early Christian’ section of the heritage park site, it seems out of date on many fronts. Does anybody believe any more that a fulacht fiadh was for boiling meat? Or that stone churches were built (outside Kerry)that early? Or that Celts migrated from central Europe?

    The buildings are terrific, and I wouldn’t be too critical of the guesswork involved, and yes it’s for a lay-audience, but the text could be updated easily.

    I’m not an historian btw.

    Thanks again for the blog. Great work. 🙂

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