The whole attraction is built around and includes original thatched dwellings.

These thatched dwellings were still inhabited up until 1983 by the owners family and one of your tour guides, Pat Doherty.

The thatched dwellings are still maintained and re-thatched every year by traditional methods.

This traditional send-off for the dead still continues in this northerly part of Donegal.

Rather than sending our dead to a funeral home, the remains of our loved ones are kept in the home until it is time for burial.

The custom of waking the dead has a rich history. Many of our familiar sayings come from the occasion and many similarities can be found in England, France and other European countries.

Evictions were common place in Ireland in the decade after the famine.

Landlords cleared their estates to make way for more profitable making enterprises.

Religion has played a major part in Irish history.

In the late eighteenth century many people from the Established Church felt under threat from Irish rebels and so they set up an organisation to help protect themselves.

They named their organisation the Orange Order after their hero William of Orange.

An Orange Hall was built to give some insight into this tradition.

Many of the display items have been donated by the people of Whiterock, Belfast.

This is one of the newest additions to Doagh Famine Village and the idea for it came from long term republican prisoner Eddie Gallagher.

A safe house was a place of refuge by those running from the authorities.

It was a place with secret passage ways where the escapee could hide. Each room in the safe house tells part of the story of the road to peace in Northern Ireland.