Museums and Visitor Attractions
in County Mayo in the West of Ireland
Museums of Mayo
The network includes museums, heritage centres, abbeys, interpretative centres and other heritage-related projects in the county:
- Achill Archaeological Field School, Achill Island
- Ballintubber Abbey, Ballintubber, Claremorris
- Céide Fields Visitor Centre, Ballycastle, County Mayo
- Clew Bay Heritage Centre, The Quay, Westport
- Clogher Heritage Complex, Clogher
- Teach Na Miosa, Croagh Patrick, Westport
- Belcarra Eviction Cottage, Belcarra, Castlebar
- Fr. Peyton Memorial Centre, Attymass, Ballina
- Foxford Woollwn Mills, Foxford
- Hennigan's Heritage Centre, Killasser, Swinford
- Ionad Deirbhile Heritage Centre , Eachleim, Blacksod
- Kiltimagh Museum, Old Railway Station, Kiltimagh
- Knock Folk Museum, Knock Shrine Ground's, Knock
- Mayo Abbey, Mayo Abbey Village, Claremorris
- Mayo North Heritage Centre, Ennisoce, Ballina
- Michael Davitt Museum, Straide
- Museum of Country Life, Turlough, Castlebar
- Partry House, Partry
- Quiet Man Cottage Museum, Cong Village
Mayo Peace Park
The Mayo Peace Park, Garden of Remembrance, is located in the centre of Castlebar fronting the old town cemetery and opposite the Harlequin Hotel. The park commemorates a forgotten generation of brave heroic local people from every town and village in Mayo, who served and died in the major world wars & conflicts of the past century as well as in other wars & conflicts.
Is í Tír Sáile (Gaeilge), Conair Dhealbhóireachta Thuaisceart Mhaigh Eo, an tionscadal poiblí ealaíne is mó a cuireadh ar bun riamh in Eirinn. Tháinig an bunsmaoineamh don Chonair Dhealbhóireachta ón laithrean neoiliotach is mó ar domhan a dtángthas air ag an gCéideadh i dTuaisceart Mhaigh Eo. Cuireadh na saothair ina n-áit do fhéile Maigh Eo 5000, ceiliúradh bliana ar áitreabhóirí Mhaigh Eo a dtéann a rian ar dhúiche Mhaigh Eo siar 5000 bliain.
North Mayo has one of the greatest concentrations of Stone Age tombs (megaliths) in Europe. It is now known to possess the intact farms of the tomb builders, preserved beneath the bog which covers the region. Tír Sáile (English) has created a trail of permanent sculpture from the Moy Estuary to the Mullet Peninsula marking in a contemporary way this ancient landscape.
