Michael Davitt Museum

The Michael Davitt Museum stands at Straide in County Mayo, the birthplace of Michael Davitt, the land reformer and founder of the Irish National Land League. The museum is housed beside the ruins of Straide Abbey, where Davitt is buried, and its displays cover his life, the Land War and the wider story of land ownership in Ireland.

For anyone tracing Mayo roots, the collection gives useful context on nineteenth-century rural life, eviction and emigration, and the abbey ruins are worth time in their own right.