Ulster American Folk Park
Ulster American Folk Park
Mellon Road
Castletown
Omagh
Tyrone
BT78 5QY
Northern Ireland
Website
General enquiries
Education
Collections
Centre for Migration Studies
Telephone
General information
028 8224 3292
Group Bookings
028 8225 6320
Collections
028 8225 6310
Centre for Migration Studies
028 8225 6315
Residential Centre/Restaurant
028 8224 0918
Fax
All Departments
028 8224 2241
Residential Centre/Restaurant
028 8225 1703
The Ulster American Folk Park tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Here you will find fully furnished Old and New World buildings with costumed demonstrators going about their everyday tasks. A Ship and Dockside gallery links the two areas and includes a full size replica of an emigrant ship. "Emigrants" is an indoor exhibition which details the background to the emigration experience.
Venue Type:
Museum, Ship or maritime heritage site
Additional info
Specialist Library dealing with Emigration history.
Ulster American Folk Park
Mellon Road
Castletown
Omagh
Tyrone
BT78 5QY
Northern Ireland
Website
General enquiries
Education
Collections
Centre for Migration Studies
Telephone
General information
028 8224 3292
Group Bookings
028 8225 6320
Collections
028 8225 6310
Centre for Migration Studies
028 8225 6315
Residential Centre/Restaurant
028 8224 0918
Fax
All Departments
028 8224 2241
Residential Centre/Restaurant
028 8225 1703
The museum's collection consists of original and replica Ulster and American dwelling houses and shops with original furniture and fittings from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. There is a substantial social history collection of domestic, craft and agricultural objects in storage and on display in the exhibit buildings and permanent exhibition, including a small textile collection of Ulster and American patchwork and various miscellaneous costume and linen items.
The Centre for Migration Studies hosts an Irish Emigration Database, which is a computerised collection of primary source documents relating to emigration to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. It includes emigrant letters, shipping advertisements, passenger lists, emigrant diaries and family papers.
Collection details
Agriculture, Architecture, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Land Transport, Maritime, Medicine, Personalities, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- Mellon House is an original dwelling on its original site, and the birthplace of the founder of the Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh;
- Ancestral Irish home of John Joseph Hughes, Roman Catholic Bishop of New York;
- The original home in Ireland of Robert and Hugh Campbell who later settled in St Louis,Missouri;
- Castletown National School;
- Tullyallen Masshouse;
- Fulton House, an early 18th century emigrant dwelling from Lancaster county Pennsylvania, the home of Donegal emigrant Samuel Fulton;
- Mid 19th century West Pennsylvania Log House;
- Collection of 19th century original Ulster shop fronts and fittings including a Post Office, Printshop, Chemist, Ropemaker, Pub, and Saddler;
- Emigrants Exhibition; two centuries of emigration from Ulster to America;
- The ancestral home of President Woodrow Wilson, an ‘outreach exhibit’ at Dergalt, seventeen miles from the UAFP and one mile from Strabane.
Collections services
- General guide to collections available
- Object identification and/or written enquiry service
- Public access available to collections information
- Specialist publications on collections available
- Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
