From There to Here: the State Visits of the Hillery Presidency. Group photo at the launch of the exhibition in the Clare Museum in Ennis. (L-R): Alec Fleming (Clare County Manager), Most Rev. Dr. Willie Walsh (Bishop of Killaloe), Mrs. Maeve Hillery, Dr. Patrick J. Hillery (former President of Ireland), Pat Keane (Mayor of Clare), John Rattigan (Curator, Clare Museum).
Bunratty Folk Park. Internal view of Bothán Scóir, a labourer's cottage, in Bunratty Folk Park. The roof timbers are rough saplings. The chimney is a four-sided funnel framed with rough timbers with traverse rungs through which hay rope or sugán soaked in liquid clay had been woven; the outer and inner surfaces of the chimney were then finished off with another coat of clay. A home-made straw saddle hangs on the brace-tree which supports the canopied hearth.
Bunratty Folk Park. The hearth of the Shannon Farmhouse, Bunratty Folk Park. The open fire is at floor level and the chimney is built of stone. The door to the left of the chimney leads to a storage room.
Bunratty Folk Park. View of box bed and gramophone in the parlour of the Shannon Farmhouse, Bunratty Folk Park. In this house, one of the bedrooms was converted into a parlour - a 19th century development in imitation of the bigger houses.
Bunratty Folk Park. The hearth of the Mountain Farmhouse, Bunratty Folk Park.The chimney hood is of wicker on a wooden frame, plastered over, leading intyo a small channel which ends in an external chimney of stone . The flagstones on the floor came from Dirreen quarry in West Limerick and originally formed part of a bride's dowry.
