Single Room Cabin
The Devine family’s one room cabin was moved to the Ulster American Folk Park from Altahoney townland in the Sperrin Mountains near Park.  Dating from the late eighteenth century, it is an excellent example of the type of dwelling occupied by many poor tenant farmers in the decades lea...

Blacksmiths Forge
The country blacksmith was of vital importance to the agricultural community, both as a farrier who shod and cared for horses and as a manufacturer and repairer of agricultural implements. The forge reproduced in the Folk Park is typical of those which were once found throughout rural Ulster.&nbs...

Meeting House
The Presbyterian Church or “Meeting House” was the focal point of the Ulster Presbyterian community. The building at the Folk Park is a replica of the thatched crossroads Meeting House at Mountjoy in which Thomas Mellon worshipped as a boy. He described it in his autobiography as &ldq...

Mellon House
Thomas Mellon was born in this cottage in February 1813. It was built by his father Andrew and his brother Archy, 'chiefly by the labour of their own hands', shortly before Thomas was born. Thomas spent the first five years of his life here, before he and his family emigrated to America. The cott...

Campbell House
The Campbell House, or Aghalane House to give it its formal title, was built by Hugh Campbell in 1786, on a farm near Plumbridge in County Tyrone. Hugh placed two stone plaques above the front door, one bearing his name and the date of construction, and the other inscribed with an armorial of the...

Tullyallen Masshouse
Tullyallen Mass House from Tullyallen, near Dungannon, County Tyrone, was the place of worship of the parishioners of Killeeshill Parish       It was built in 1768 on land leased from the Earl of Charlemont, a well-known liberal Irish landlord. Contrary to popul...

Hughes House
John Joseph Hughes, the first Catholic Archbishop of New York, was born in 1797 on a small farm near the village of Augher in County Tyrone. Several years later his family moved to a nearby farm in the townland of Dernaved, County Monaghan. It was from this farmhouse, now rebuilt in the Ulster Am...

Castletown National School
This National School was moved to the Ulster American Folk Park from the nearby townland of Castletown. The building is dated 1845, although records reveal that there was a school on the original site from the 1790s.In 1845 the 'Master' at Castletown School was Patrick Mulligan.  He taught t...

Mountjoy Post Office
This building was moved to the Ulster American Folk Park from nearby Mountjoy village, where it had served as a Post Office and dwelling house from 1861 until the early 1900s.In 1862, the house was listed under the Post Towns in Ireland as Mountjoy Post Office, ninety-nine miles from Dublin. Like...

Wilson House (located near Strabane)
The Wilson House, near Strabane, County Tyrone, was the home of James Wilson, grandfather of President Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States of America. This house, owned by the Ulster American Folk Park, is maintained in its original setting in the townland of Dergalt, tw...