Muckross House - inside

Muckross House is amazing. I was speaking to one of the curators and they explained how they were very fortunate that it was donated in the way it was. Many houses are done up to look like what they would have been at the time, but this particular house still contains most of the original furniture!

A couple of “funny” pictures in this set. Instead of “Don’t touch / sit here” signs everywhere, there are pieces of holly in plastic on many surfaces. It’s enough to keep people off with a smile and a laugh.

Also - the toilet picture. The family that owned the house were trying to make it into high society, and did up the whole house so that Queen Victoria would visit (which she did). The toilet is the first flushing porcelain toilet in this part of the world. Czytaj więcej