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This branch of the National Museum depicts arts and crafts of rural Ireland, mainly 1850-1950. It's in a modern building by the Victorian Gothic Turlough House.
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Davitt (1846-1906) was born here but when he was four the family were evicted for rent arrears. They moved to Lancashire, where he worked in a cotton mill but lost his right arm in the machinery. Thus radicalised, he went on to join the Irish Republican Brotherhood, campaigning with Parnell on land reform and Home Rule, and serving two spells in prison. The museum is in an old church used before the Penal Laws outlawed Catholic masses.
Abbey built in 1216, wrecked at the Reformation but re-built from the 1960s. It's still in use for services, weddings, retreats and so on. A 35-km pilgrimage route Tóchar Phádraig winds from here to the summit of Croagh Patrick near Westport.