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The first building in the outdoor museum is the Single Room Cabin. This building was moved to the Park from the foothills of the nearby Sperrin Mountains and dates from the late eighteenth century. It is an excellent example of the type of dwelling occupied by many poor tenant farmers in the decades leading up to the outbreak of the Great Famine in 1845. A particularly significant feature of the cabin is the bed outshot which you will notice as you enter. It is remarkable to consider that this would have represented the only fixed furniture, apart from a crude table and a few 'creepies' or small stools. Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that up to twelve people could have lived in this dwelling.
Single Room Cabin
On the way to the Blacksmith's Forge take a look at the 'lazy beds'. In these was grown the principal source of food for the occupants of the house - the potato. In good times the small building at the side of the house would have been used to house a few pigs.
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