placenamesMagunihy
Maigh gCoinchinn
Three working museum farms show differences in holdings, houses and farmyards.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh gCoinchinn · Irish · main form
- Magunihy · English · main form
Place & story
Small, medium and large holdings
Muckross Traditional Farms presents rural life of the 1930s and 1940s through three working farms. The museum’s guide describes Kissane’s as representing roughly twenty acres, with a two-room dwelling and attached outbuildings. Foley’s represents forty to fifty acres, with outhouses parallel to the house. At Quille’s, representing about a hundred acres, buildings surround a rectangular yard and a corridor separates the bedrooms. These are museum representations of different kinds of farming household, alongside a labourer’s cottage and craft workshops. [2] [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Magunihy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tour Muckross Traditional Farms · Trustees of Muckross House (Killarney) CLG
- Muckross Traditional Farms: introduction · Trustees of Muckross House (Killarney) CLG
- Kissane's farm dwelling at Muckross Traditional Farms illustration: based on a Kissane's a traditional farm by Stephen Elwyn RODDICK. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.