Knock Museum

Archdeacon Cavanagh with his house and Knock Church, 1879

Knock Museum
The wonderful Knock Museum gives the history of Our Lady of Knock and the Apparition.
The witnesses to the Apparition lived in small cottages, comprising a kitchen with an open fire, and a bedroom.
Most people worked on the land, and survived on produce.
The main crops around Knock were potatoes and oats.
Most people had a cow or two, a few pigs and some chickens.

Farm work varied according to the season.
In spring, crops were sown.
Turf was cut in summer, and hay saved.
Crops were harvested in autumn.
Tools were mended in winter, and animals tended.

Prayer was central to family and village life.
To this rural way of life, Our Lady of Knock came with her inspiration message of peace and wisdom.

At prayer 

Spinning wheel

Why not visit the Museum?
See
http://www.knock-shrine.ie/museum

Refreshments are available at the Museum -
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http://www.knock-shrine.ie/cafe

Photographs taken by Catherine Nicolette and used with gracious permission of Museum curators
With thanks to Knock Museum