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Kerry County Museum

10/8/2019

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Museums provide a link between a community and its past history. Such is the case with the Kerry County Museum, located within the Ashe Memorial Hall at the center of Tralee (next to the Town Park). Developed by the Tralee Urban District Council between 1991 and 1992, the museum is dedicated to presenting the heritage of County Kerry.
On the ground floor, the museum focuses on the early beginnings of the area with a re-creation of a medieval town.This amazing project did give us a small taste of what life was like here back in the Middle Ages. Upstairs, the exhibits are devoted to the archeological and more modern history of County Kerry. Included in these exhibits are Sunflower pins from the Bronze Age; dueling pistols used by Daniel O’Connell (an Irish political leader in the early part of the 19th century); and a medieval brooch rescued from a turf fire after being lost for a thousand years.
​ While this is not a huge museum compared to some of the others we’ve visited during our travels, it never-the-less was quite interesting and worth a visit.
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Sitting at the base of Tralee’s Denny Street, between two sections of the Town Park, the Kerry County Museum offers a perspective on the history of the area that is a bit different from other facilities of its type...
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... with its re-creation of a medieval town.
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We could easily envision what life was like here back in the Middle Ages...
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... but I am not sure I would have enjoyed living back then. Life was tough...especially without the usual amenities to which we’ve grown accustomed .
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On the upper floors, the exhibits are of the more traditional museum types, such as 19th and 20th century quilts...
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...and artifacts excavated from local archeological sites.
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This is a Sunflower pin from the Bronze Age.
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Irish political leader, Daniel O’Connor owned these dueling pistols (we don’t know if he ever used them).
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Lost for over 1000 years, this medieval brooch was rediscovered during a turf fire.
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All-in-all, I would say we had a fun visit to this museum.
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