Emil Milewski

PPS 2669589Q

Irish Culture and Heritage

The National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig

Date of visit: 12 December 2013

EXTERNAL

Relationship to surrounding areaThe National Heritage Park, in Ferrycarrig is situated on the country site, there is not much buildings just beside. Park is surrounded by the river

Sign-postingOn the way to site I’ve seen signs with directions

Car parkingJust beside entrance is large car parking for around 100 car or buses

BUILDING

Has it been restoredThe Irish National Heritage Park brings to life the history of life in Ireland since the Stone Age. Occupying 25 acres it has 16 archaeological and historical reconstructions of prehistoric houses, a megalithic tomb, a fulacht fiadh, a ringfort, crannog, monastic site, Anglo-Norman Motte and Bailey Castle and much more. There are also education workshops, school tours and a range of activities. The park has a restaurant and gift shop.

Quality of conservation/restorationQuality of reconstructed buildings stands ion very high level with grat take care about details for egzample lived animals

Is it architecturally designed?All buildings are designed according to period of history where this same was built

What is its relationship to other buildings or general environment?There are no other buildings just beside park

What is historical/ heritage/ cultural significance site?The park has heritage purpose. Brings visitor in interesting trip through 9000 years of history island of Ireland

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Reception/entrance areaReception is situated in newly built entrance area. Beside reception are craftshop and big restaurant.

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Pricing (adult, student, groups)

Tickets Prices in Euro’s PricesIndividual / Adult €9.00Family (2 adults + 3 Children  Under 16 yrs) €24.00Senior Citizen €7.00Student €7.00Children 4 years and under FreeChild (5-12 yrs) €4.00Child (13-16 yrs) €4.50

Internal sign-postingThere were many signs with information about routes and exposition information’s

Access for mobility impaired/wheelchair userThere is limited access for peoples with disabilities. Ground, entrances to buildings and stairs are sometimes very narrow

Health & safetyWhole place is safe for visitors. Animals which pretend to be wild are separated

Visitor flowIrish National Heritage Park is one of the biggest attraction in Wexford area and is visited by large number of tourist every day

FACILITIES

ToiletsToilets are situated beside reception. There are no toilets inside park

Café, restaurant, museum shopCafé, restaurant and shop are just beside reception. Shop is very large and offer large number of items. Restaurant Is for around 70 peoples and there is also extra space outside

Craftshop/bookshopThere is large number of books about place and Irish prehistoric history

Additional amenitiesBefore tour we seen the movie about Irish prehistoric history and how people lived then

INTERPRETATION

Range of interetative literature (booklets, guidebook, maps)Inside the shop is very good range of books, booklets and free leaflets. Price is between €5 - €30

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Exhibition (visuals, displays, story boards, models, artifacts)Exhibition contain buildings (wood and stone), animals, models, ships and artifacts

Sound and lightingInside wood buildings frequently you can find some lighst of fire, sounds

Tour guide (quality of presentation, knowledge)The Guide was dressed as monk. His clothes weren’t the best quality, but overall effect was nice. He had good knowledge about exposition and presented it in very interesting way

Audio-visual display (seating capacity, slides, DVD)There is movie room for around 100 peoples. Movie was interesting and gave good preparation before tour

LanguagesTour is available in 4 languages – English, Irish, German and French. Beside each village there is also sound information in 8 languages (Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian are added there)

MARKETING

WebsiteThe Irish National Heritage park has own website: http://www.inhp.com

Market mix (local, national, international)There is international market because of large number available languages

Promotions and special eventsThere is possibility to camp for peoples which want to live like they ancesters

MANAGEMENT PROFILE

Is it a public or private facility?The Irish National Heritage Park is private facility

How many people are employed? (full-time, part-time)There are 25 employed for full time

Does the enterprise have a commercial or heritage purposeThe Irish National Heritage Park has heritage purpose.

BIBLOGRAPHY

http://www.inhp.com

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