Farms: Muckross Traditional Farms - A step into the past.
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Step back into the past on Muckross Traditional Farms and visit a very different Ireland -- the Ireland of the 1930s and 1940s. Then, a trip to the well was still a daily chore for the housewife and electricity had yet to be introduced to the countryside. The horse reigned supreme - all farming activities were carried out using horsepower and traditional farm machinery. The rhythm of life followed a yearly cycle and the farmer's activities were governed by the seasons and the weather. Visit three separate working farms (small, medium and large), each complete with animals, poultry and machinery. The farm dwellings are furnished in traditional style, complete with dressers, settlebeds and mealbins. There is also a Labourer's Cottage, a Carpenter's Workshop and a Blacksmith's Forge. Our younger visitors will enjoy our small Farm Animal Petting Area, complete with its own Bouncy Castle. Parents can enjoy a sheltered picnic in our Woodland Play Area, while their youngsters have fun on the wonderful slides and swings. A free complimentary coach service, with universal access, circles the site continuously. Visitors are welcome to board and alight from the coach as they choose, while visiting each of the farm dwellings along the way. For more see: http://www.muckross-house.ie/ http://www.facebook.com/muckross.ie
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its sad how this disappeared. allot of family owned farm are not real anymore, they are just owned by greedy rich companies.
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Excellent Presentation, Cannot get better than this, Many Thanks.
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Great stuff
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I could collect the hay stacks on my own as a twelve year old, and clear a field in a day, but you still had to load the hay into the barn with a lot of help. co kerry
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beautifull que bellesa
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What a WONDERFULL video . I smiled the whole video. Maybe because I am old enough to remember those things.
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to Sean dwyer. what u wrote sounds almost like a beginning to a story. why don't u write one?
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Very impressed.
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Brilliant video. The horse drawn implements were different to what I grew up with and that is what had me wondering until I asked my Irish wife. Thank you for an excellent video.
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Shire horses?
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Brilliant. How funny is the old guy walkin about playin the violin at 1min 43 seconds
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Is very very good :)
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The Ireland of my childhood, standing on a chair to pump the 'tilly' hung up in the ceiling of my pals house just because I loved doing it when visiting! The soda-bread cooking in the pig-pot over an open fire, carrying water from the yard spring to make the most delicious tasting pots of tea, the hum of conversation late into the night, to the accompaniment of the hissing tilly lamp, and the quiet flames of their turf fire...all now just ghosts in a silent past of long ago.......
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simply awesome, good enough to take me to the childhood days when i used to plow using the ox
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superb