The Forge Museum

Visit the 200 year old Forge of Mountbellew House.

This has now been doubled in size, with the help of FAS, and contains exhibits of the old forge equipment such as a huge bellows and anvil, Bobbyjo’s horseshoe, old farm implements, and an ancient flat bottomed wooden boat a thousand years old recovered from near Eskerstephens graveyard.

It is well worth a visit just to wonder at the size of the old bellows used in the forge and the hefty wooden and metal machinery – simply churning the milk would require some strength. By contrast, the dugout boat is a delicate thing, its oak shell (hollowed out from a single tree trunk) barely an inch thick in most places.

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