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	The Craggaunowen Project
		Craggaunowen is an attempt to recreate aspects of Ireland’s past with the restoration and reconstruction’s of earlier forms of
		John Hunt bought the land at Craggaunowen, near Quin, County Clare, restored the castle and began the construction of a modern museum display, including the reconstructed Crannog and Ringfort.
		There is no doubt that Craggaunowen project is one of the most unique of its kind and is well worth visiting to see the past coming to life.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/coclare/history/cragno.htm (525 words)

	Craggaunowen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Craggaunowen 'The Living Past' tells the story of the arrival of the Celts in Ireland and the many changes they wrought upon daily life.
		At Craggaunowen we are attempting to recreate aspects of Ireland's past with the restoration and re-constructions of earlier forms of dwelling houses, farmsteads, hunting sites and other features of everyday life during the Pre-historic and Early Christian eras.
		Craggaunowen is located near the village of Quin, Co. Clare.
	www.shannonheritage.com /Craggaunowen_Day.htm (964 words)

	AdventNov04
		At Craggaunowen in County Clare, visitors return briefly to the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Dark Ages, and the Middle Ages, all, as it were, on a walk in the park.
		Craggaunowen is the idea of John Hunt, scholar of medieval history, collector of artifacts, and advisor to the noted auction house, Sotheby’s, on medieval art.
		Fortunately, Craggaunowen is a "living museum" with staff dressed appropriately for the times featured along the walk and demonstrating skills and crafts representative of the periods.
	www.homeatfirst.com /adventno1.htm (984 words)

	Craggaunowen, Nr Quin, Clare, Ireland - Irish Historic and Tourist Sites - 1 2 Travel Ireland Regional Information Guide
		Demonstrations of early crafts and farming techniques are held regularly and Craggaunowen farms with rare animal breeds typical of this early period such as Soay sheep and wild boar.
		The Craggaunowen exhibition also features ‘the Brendan’, the leather hulled boat used by explorer Tim Severin to sail across the Atlantic in 1976-77, re-enacting the legendary voyage of St Brendan who reputedly sailed from Ireland to America centuries before Columbus.
		Craggaunowen is an undoubtedly interesting exhibition, one of Ireland’s best insights into prehistoric life in the country and well worth the visit.
	www.12travel.co.uk /ie/attractions/craggaunowen.html (249 words)

	Celtic History in Quin - The Celts in Ireland - Craggaunowen The Living Past - Co. Clare
		Craggaunowen - the Living Past is Ireland’s original, award winning, prehistoric park.
		Craggaunowen castle which was built around 1550 is also situated on the grounds.
		The route to Craggaunowen is clearly signposted at several junctions on the main N18 Limerick-Galway road, off the R462 from Cratloe and the R469 from Ennis.
	www.gardensireland.com /craggaunowen-project.html (167 words)

	ALL IRELAND TRAVEL - www.all-ireland.com
		The Craggaunowen Project is known as "Craggaunowen: The Living Past".
		Craggaunowen Castle is a tower castle and was refurbished to house pieces from Hunt's excavations.
		Staff at the site are dressed in period costume and go about their business as if they were part of history themselves, though you can feel free to interact with them.
	www.all-ireland.com /attractions/c/craggaunowen.htm (254 words)

	Craggaunowen
		The changes they brought to the social organisation of the tribes, their dwellings and hunting methods are explained by the animators in character set in the time period.
		Craggaunowen has many stories to weave as we move from the Crannog (Lake dwelling) to the Ring Fort which was still in use when the Normans started building stone castles, a technology adopted by the Irish Celts.
		Tim Severin, a present day adventurer built a replica of the boat and sailed it to Greenland thus proving that Brendan might have in fact discovered America as is claimed.
	www.dairyhouse-guesthouse.com /limerickcraggaunowen.htm (188 words)

	Rental Car in Ireland from Car Hire Ltd - A Car Trip to Craggaunowen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Located next to the 16th Century Craggaunowen Castle, it gives visitors a taste of Celtic life with its authentic architecture and performances depicting everyday scenes from that period.
		Craggaunowen village features an award-winning example of a Crannog, a Celtic homestead built from wattles, reeds and mud gathered from the nearby lake.
		The Craggaunowen exhibits also feature ‘the Brendan’, a leather hulled boat that explorer Tim Severin built and then sailed across the Atlantic in 1976.
	www.carhire.ie /news/article-A-Car-Trip-to-Craggaunowen.html (319 words)

	Craggaunowen Project - Clare - Ireland
		The largest attraction in this 50-acre lakeside complex is Craggaunowen Castle, built in 1550 by John Sioda Mc Namara.
		The original was built in the style of a fortified towerhouse, the popular form of residence for the gentry of the period.
		The various displays at the Craggaunowen Project are brought to life by costumed characters that explain their tasks as they work on crafts and survival tasks, displaying skills that go as far back as the Iron Age.
	www.chooseireland.com /clare/craggaunowen-project.html (412 words)

	Craggaunowen travel guide - Wikitravel
		Craggaunowen folk park in the Ireland's County Clare consists of historical sites and reconstructions of historical sites from different ages, embedded in a beautiful landscape.
		The folk park is not on one of the major tourist routes and therefore much less crowded than Bunratty for example.
		A 1976 reconstruction of the type ofboat which was meant to have been used by St. Brendan in medieval times, and in which he is supposed to have discovered America.
	wikitravel.org /en/Craggaunowen (236 words)

	Shannon Region - Things to Do Individual Search Result (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Craggaunowen — the Living Past Experience, is Ireland’s original, award-winning Prehistoric Park.
		Overlooking all is 'Craggaunowen Castle', built by John MacSioda MacNamara around 1550.
		One of the highlights of a visit to Craggaunowen is the opportunity to explore recreations of two homesteads from the pre-historic and early Christian eras.
	www.shannonregiontourism.ie /individual_results.asp?sID=12408 (371 words)

	See what we've been up to - Craggaunowen
		Craggaunowen - The Brendan – 31 viewsAnother view of the boat.
		Craggaunowen - Crannog -- across the moat – 28 viewsThere's water between me and the fortress here; you can see the outer rampart wall and the huts within.
		Craggaunowen (http://www.shannonheritage.com/Craggaunowen_Day.htm) has a number of rebuilt/recreated structures from Irish history.
	www.deathstar.org /~svanlooy/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=18&page=1&sort=nd (356 words)

	See what we've been up to - Craggaunowen
		We decided to do as much as we could, to stay awake and get on Irish time.
		Craggaunowen Visit – 23 viewsSo we picked up the rental car at the airport in Shannon, and drove here for our first visit.
		Craggaunowen - Medieval Fortified Tower – 28 viewsThis tower gives a good view of the whole site.
	www.deathstar.org /~svanlooy/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=18 (356 words)

	Wanderung 9 - Idly Eyeing an Idyllic Emerald Isle. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The museum consisted of Craggaunowen Castle itself, one of those square stone towers so beloved by the Irish lords, and a couple of reconstructed dwelling areas from much earlier periods in Irish (pre)history.
		We were surprised both to see a very old-fashioned loom in one hut and a foot-powered wood lathe outside, and I did wonder when those developments had really spread in the old Celtic society.
		The Craggaunowen Project with its odd sheep basically finished our sight seeing in Ireland, and from there we just headed back to the village of Sixmilebridge where we found a B&B for the night.
	www2.wanderungs.com:1974 /wanderung09/wanderung09_0427.htm (1363 words)

	Holidayhound - Clare, Craggaunowen Project; Bunratty, John Hunt, Quin, crannogs, ringforts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		About 8 miles beyond Bunratty, the Craggaunowen Project was begun by John Hunt, a collector and expert on medieval art.
		He bought land near Quin in the 1960's and set about restoring Craggaunowen Castle and recreating Ireland's history, constructing early Irish dwellings, such as the crannóg and the ringfort.
		Crannogs date back to the early Christian era and were thatched dwellings on stilts ringed around by fencing and built on a manmade island in a lake, usually some way from the shore to guard against raiders.
	www.holidayhound.com /editorials/t6clpcraadvise.htm (494 words)

	The Hunt Museum :: Display Archival Description
		Bord Fáilte Éireann (the Irish Tourist Board) is financing the lake dwelling and the ring-fort, the Shannon Free Airport Development Company is responsible for planning and administration and the Department of Lands has made available the site for the project.
		With reference to works which remain to be completed at Craggaunowen, states that they should aim at raising £100,000; also present are extracts from minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee (15 May 1972-11 June 975) and the Craggaunowen Establishment Council (26 April 1972-5 February 1975).
		Gertrude Hunt goes on to mention in her letter that there will soon be a meeting in relation to Craggaunowen at Plassey.
	test.huntmuseum.com /arc_search.asp?aSearch=B1c (434 words)

	Craggaunowen Project, Ireland. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		The second left turning, two miles south of Knappogue, brings you to the Craggaunowen Project, situated on the edge of a reedy lake under a wooded hillside (May–Oct daily 10am–6pm; €6.65; tel 061/360788, www.shannonheritage.com).
		This is based around another fortified tower house, the ground floor of which houses a collection of sixteenth-century European wood-carvings.
		Craggaunowen also has an actual Iron Age road, excavated at Corlea Bog, County Longford and moved to this site.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/ireland/craggaunowen_project (299 words)

	Craggaunowen Project \| Southwest Ireland with Cork & Killarney Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		It's a strange experience to walk across the little wooden bridge above reeds rippling in the lake into Ireland's Celtic past as a jumbo jet passes overhead on its way into Shannon Airport -- 1,500 years of history compressed into an instant.
		The romantic centerpiece is Craggaunowen Castle, a 16th-century tower house restored with furnishings from the period.
		Huddling beneath its battlements are two replicas of early-Celtic-style dwellings.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=southwest_ireland@601&cur_section=sig&property_id=92996 (217 words)

	Jaye's Stitchery > Places > Craggaunowen
		These four designs feature different attractions at Craggaunowen in Co. Clare.
		Craggaunowen Castle was until very recently a home of the Hunt Family.
		The centre has many authentic ancient Celtic sites including reconstructed Iron Age Ring Fort, Crannóg (artifical Island home), campsites, road, Dolmen and is also now the resting place of the Brendan Boat built and sailed by Tim Severin.
	homepage.eircom.net /~watty/jstitch/places-4.htm (135 words)

	Healy O'Sullivan Travel : 38 South Main Street, Pearl River, NY 10965 : Phone 1-888-32-IRISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Craggaunowen project is a re-creation of life in neolithic times, inspired by the late historian and archaeologist, John Hunt.
		Also on display is a replica of the Brendan Boat, built by Tim Severin, who sailed across the Atlantic in support of his theory that St. Brendan reached the shores of the New World in the 6th century.
		The centre-piece of Craggaunowen is the castle itself, dating from 1550.
	www.healyosullivantravel.com /pub-tour.htm (2434 words)

	Miscellaneous Tips - Limerick Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Overview: Craggaunowen 'The Living Past' tells the story of the arrival of the Celts in Ireland and the many changes they wrought upon daily life.
		Description: At Craggaunowen we are attempting to recreate aspects of Ireland's past with the restoration and re-constructions of earlier forms of dwelling houses, farmsteads, hunting sites and other features of everyday life during the Pre-historic and Early Christian eras.
		Location: Craggaunowen is located near the village of Quin, Co. Clare.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Ireland/County_Limerick/Limerick-295063/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Limerick-MISC-R-1.html (2210 words)

	O'Gradys - Iroko House, Bed & Breakfast, Limerick, Ireland
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		Craggaunowen is a prehistoric park featuring a recreation of homesteads and artefacts dating back to Ireland's pre-historic and early Christian eras.
		It is located on 50 acres and the main attractions include:
	www.irokohouse.com /attractions_interest_4.html (180 words)

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