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Walking the Castlebar to Turlough Greenway

Swan Lake: Turlough Park and the National Museum of Ireland Country Life exhibition building overlooking the lake in the grounds of the estate, near the Castlebar to Turlough Greenway trailhead. Photo: Anthony Hickey
Swan Lake: Turlough Park and the National Museum of Ireland Country Life exhibition building overlooking the lake in the grounds of the estate, near the Castlebar to Turlough Greenway trailhead. Photo: Anthony Hickey

I finally got around to walking the Castlebar to Turlough Greenway in mid-April and I wasn’t disappointed by the 7km trail that opens a door to the countryside for walkers and cyclists in Castlebar.

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A cheap suitcase that tells the story of Ireland in the 1950s

The life-size sculpture in Kiltimagh of an emigrant walking to the train station with his suitcase in hand commemorates all those who were forced to leave Mayo during the 20th century to find work in England and America. Picture Anthony Hickey

A cheap suitcase that was typical of those carried by Irish emigrants going to Britain in large numbers during the 1950s features in a new exhibition at the Museum of Country Life at Turlough, Castlebar. It’s part of the National Museum of Ireland’s “100 OBJECTS” collection that takes us through the history of people in Ireland […]