Muckross wins heritage education award

MUCKROSS Traditional Farms, in Killarney, has become the first Irish winner of the coveted Sandford Award for heritage education.

Each year, 70,000 people visit the attraction where everyday life on farms in the 1930’s and ’40’s is re-enacted, using live animals and poultry, and where farm tasks are undertaken in the style of the period.

The three farms, in operation since 1993, are part of the Muckross House and Gardens complex which is visited by 800,000 people annually and is among the top five visitor attractions nationally.