The Living Farm
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Visitors love the Folk Museum’s Living Farm. It actively interprets old farming ways and helps to preserve old farming techniques and traditional Irish breeds.
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All the animals that can be seen in our fields are traditional Irish breeds. These include Irish moiled cattle (from the Irish, maol, meaning hornless), Kerry cattle, the Irish draught horse and both lowland Galway and Mourne Blackface mountain sheep.
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Close to the thatched farmhouse, you might come across newborn piglets or tiny chicks and kids (baby goats). You might even be startled by a cock crowing or a donkey baying.
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The arable fields are worked as they would have been a century ago using traditional equipment such as horse drawn wheel ploughs. In season, there are crops of potatoes, wheat, oats and flax.
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A number of popular events and activities linked to the farming year and country life are held in the rural area. These include a Horse Ploughing Match and Country Skills Day, Springtime Dawn Chorus, Donkey Day and Harvest Threshing Day. Link to events.
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