Ulster Folk Park, Tyrone, N. Ireland

At the Ulster Folk Park there are many displays of different you might have seen in 18th and 19th century Northern Ireland. The ship display was obviously a ship leaving Derry for the New World in the middle was in the inside of a ship which took might have taken my great-grandfather 5 weeks to come across from Ireland to Castle Gardens New York, and believe me it wasn't as nice as what is pictured here in real life. On the right is a catholic prayer house, at least that is what they called it. On the bottom is a Presbyterian church, you can see how plain it is. In the middle is Deb who is about 5 foot 2 and she could barely fit under the doorways and on the right is a print shop. The scary thing is some of the things you see pictured here in the print shop I used at one time at the Reading Eagle, and that has been since 1970. Where the Ulster Folk Park is located County Tyrone is also the area where my great-grandmother came from Ellen Kirk. I will find her on another trip.

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