Curator seeks buyer for contents of folk museum

A museum curator who is retiring from business is seeking a buyer for his entire collection of more than 800 household artefacts which date from 1850 to 1950.

Pat Lynch of Fox’s Lane Folk Museum in Youghal, Co Cork began collecting the pieces in 1970.

Over the following 40 years he and his wife Ann travelled throughout the country collecting more and more items, which they have exhibited in a private town centre museum from 1995.