Collections
Folk Costume Archive
Linen smocks, lace caps, and Sunday best from parish families, 1820 to 1960.
Oral History Tapes
Voices of the mill workers, schoolteachers, and Travellers, preserved in their own words.
Letters & Ledgers
Shop receipts, love letters, and emigration records bound into the town’s paper memory.
The Forge Collection
Blacksmith tools, horse brasses, and trade signs gathered from the riverside workshops.
Photograph Wall
Glass-plate portraits and street scenes from the late Victorian era, now fully digitised.
Field Notebooks
Botanist and folklorist notes on hedgerows, cures, and forgotten festivals of the parish.
More than an archive, a living room of ideas
Each object in our care was kept by someone, somewhere, for a reason. Our curators trace those reasons, listening to what a teapot or a tintype wants to say.
The collection grows through gifts, long loans, and community swaps. If your family has something worth remembering, our door is open, and so is our tea caddy.
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Collections
Filter by Era
From famine years to Celtic Tiger, browse decades of parish life in chronological order.
Filter by Theme
Faith, work, migration, craft, music, and childhood across the collection.
Filter by Donor
Every item carries a name. Meet the families who entrusted us with their keepsakes.
Have an object or memory to share?
Donaghmoremuseum is built by the community. Bring us a photograph, a story, or a question and we will help it find a home.
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