Glenview Folk Museum

The Glenview Museum captures times past and can be a wonderful way of bonding different generations of a family who come to visit.

See the traveling shop in the restored 1950s Austin Loadstar lorry, from the days when the shop came to the people (are we seeing that happening again?). The beautifully restored lorry was restored from a very delapidated state with painstaking attention to detail, and is fitted out with shelves of groceries and household products of the time.

There is also a reconstructed street scene, with shop fronts and interiors as they were in the 1930s. Newer generations may be surprised to see what it was like to go shopping in the days before the big supermarkets. There is a traditional thatched pub, a grocer's shop, a butcher, chemist, post office, cobbler's shop, and workshops for the village blacksmith and carpenter.

The farm equipment section displays restored farm equipment from the era of the horse and includes carts, ploughs, equipment to sow, mow, cut, thresh, pulp and mangle.

In the early 1900s, the work of the housewife was tough. No electricity meant that all the food preparation, churning of butter, washing of clothes and cleaning of the house, had to be done by hand. The museum shows the hand-powered tools and equipment that existed at the time.

Visitors can also take refreshments & have a meal and a drink (there is a fully licensed bar).

Glenview Folk Museum is located 3km south of Ballinamore just off the R204, 100m from Aghoo Bridge on the road to Cloone. Click the map pin icon to view the location on a map.

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