#muckross

let's lose ourselves in the irish forest

killarney national park // co. kerry, ireland // July 2012 // ©

Return to Sanctuary—Muckross Gardens, Killarney, Ireland 2024

This cloister was a friary mid-1400s/1500s-ish but it has been turned into a cemetery. The roof is mostly gone but the rest of the place is pretty well preserved. I saw where the oven used to be in the kitchen, the fireplace, bell tower… Also looks like there’s some dark history associated with place. The inhabitants were reportedly driven out by outside forces pludering the cloister and causing damage a couple times across centuries. I’ve been obsessed with Monks and Monestaries since high school. We saw three old religous sites, two of which were very gothic (one of them was 1200s gothic monestary which is about 100 yrs off my favorite era of gothic architecture in Adare). Some sources on the internet cite this place as a friary and some as a monestary so I’m not sure exactly who used to live here in what times and what kind of way of life was practiced. Monks don’t really leave their cloisters and seem to commit to poverty harder than Friars… I want to know more about religious orders.

Muckross Abbey, Kilarney

This traditional farming documentary follows the farming year and way of life for the people of Ireland at the begging of the last century. Filmed in Muckross Traditional Farm, Killarney, replicas farms and dwelling from that period exist to show what life was like in rural Ireland during the 1920's and 30's. The farms themselves are actual working farms with their own horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and hens, they are situated in the centre of Killarney National Park. We show the farming methods as they would have been in this era when all farm work was carried out by horses, donkeys and human labour. Planting potatoes in ridges, growing corn (oats) and haymaking are shown in this film along with the harvesting of the crops and the threshing. We also follow the woman year on the farm showing butter and butter milk being made and bread making. A variety of different crafts and traditional Irish skills such as blacksmiths are captured in this historical documentary. Produced by Thompson Video Productions Co. Derry Northern Ireland. Please subscribe to our channel here for more farm videos. Find us online at Videos of Irish Farming Life or visit www.irishfarmingvideos.com

Ruins, Muckross, County Kerry, 2013.

Somewhere else.