Cape Clear Island Museum, Co. Cork, Ireland was established in 1981 as a voluntary organization to:

• Organize the collection of artifacts of folk, farm and maritime life and see to their exhibition and preservation..
• Source, collect and preserve records concerning all aspects of Cape Clear island life.
• Develop an Exhibition Centre and Heritage Archive to house both artifacts and documentation of island interest.

With the help of the island community and Irish State Agencies an old schoolhouse building was restored and now holds a large collection of exhibition material and documentation relating to island life and history. There are to date, over 100 framed exhibition panels in the museum collection, which deal with fourteen different themes of island heritage, only a selection of which may be exhibited at any one time. Interpretative exhibition panels cover island settlement patterns, folk and farm life, genealogy, folklore, placenames, education, telegraph and maritime history. Archaeological, botanical, ornithological and genealogical surveys of the island have been undertaken and data relating to these aspects is either on exhibition or housed in the Island Archive.

CONTACT INFO:

Email:  cccteo@iol.ie | Phone: +353 (0) 2839119