Museum Knitting and Crochet Circle
A friendly meeting of talented craft workers with a keen interest in all things woolly!
Bicycle. NMI Collections F:2011.3
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Discover the familiar and the surprising at the National Museum of Ireland in Turlough Park, Castlebar.
Find imaginative workshops, tours and classroom activities to create inspiring and meaningful learning experiences for students
Find out moreFrom the woodland playground to bee inspired art, make memories together at Turlough Park in Co. Mayo
Find out moreReconnect with nature, unwind and refresh in the award-winning gardens of Turlough Park.
Find out moreThe Irish Folklife Collection amounts to c.35,000 objects complemented by extensive archive documentation which includes a specialist library, field recordings and image collections.
The aim of the Irish Folklife Division is to collect and preserve objects representative of the material culture that forms part of the traditional way of life of Ireland.
This Lobster pot is unusual in that it was made from heather, a material not regularly used in basket making but more robust than hazel or willow. The Gliomaigh or Lobster was once considered the poor man’s chicken.
View artefact Show me another artefact factTurlough Park,
Castlebar,
Co. Mayo,
F23 HY31
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