Just some of the farm tools and machinery on display at Mayo North Heritage Centre at Ennisco, County Mayo, Ireland : includes wood working tools, household artefacts and an ironing stove from a local convent : an interesting exhibit that gives an insight into how our ancestors went about their daily working lives

Just some of the farm tools and machinery on display at Mayo North Heritage Centre at Ennisco, County Mayo, Ireland : includes wood working tools, household artefacts and an ironing stove from a local convent : an interesting exhibit that gives an insight into how our ancestors went about their daily working lives

Museum North Mayo

The museum is accessed from reception and from the tearoom. We are members of the Irish Museums Association and of the Museums of Mayo group. There a good and varied collection of household artefacts, farm implements and machinery, mostly early to mid 20th century. Items are arranged according to usage and cataloguing and labelling is on going.

Many items come from Enniscoe House, others from surrounding farms and farm houses. The “ironing” stove was presented by the Sistes of Jesus and Mary from the local convent. The collection of wood working tools was put together by local historian James Gilvarry.

Photographs of the cottage at the memorial centre in Battery Park, New York. The cottage is from Carradoogan in the parish of Attymass in County Mayo. The cottage belonged to the Slack family but was deserted in the 1960s. The Slack family donated the cottage to the memorial in "memory of all the Slack family members of previous generations who emigrated to America and fared well there".