The West & South West Tour Day 1 We travel to the Hennigan Heritage Farm and get a glimpse of what life was like for small tenant farmers in Ireland between  the 1870’s  and  1950’s. The story of generations of Hennigans is skilfully interwoven with the History of Ireland touching on the famine and the land wars. In the afternoon we go to Strokestown House and see how the other half lived, this is one of Ireland’s many aristocratic Landlord mansions which sustained itself on the rental incomes from the tenant farmers such as the Hennigans. On route to Strokestown  we visit Rathcroghan which boasts a multitude of monuments stretching from the first … Continue reading The West & South West