Waterford County Museum

Waterford County Museum is a museum documenting the history of County Waterford. The museum is located inside the Old Town Hall, Dungarvan. The museum is administered through the Waterford County Museum Society, which changed into based explicitly to run the museum following a meeting convened in 1982 by means of the Dungarvan Irish Countrywomen's Association. It become first housed in Market House, but moved to the Old Town Hall in 1999. The Hall had at first been constructed as a grain save through a neighborhood service provider, Thomas Buckley, inside the overdue 1700s. By the center of the Eighties the buildings had fallen into disrepair, and changed into converted right into a Town Hall and public library.

The present day façade of the building dates from 1909. The museum and its collections goal to file, collect and hold the history of Dungarvan and west County Waterford. The museum is cut up into regions, one for the everlasting collections, and one for temporary exhibitions. The collections encompass trophies, Cap Badges of the Irish Regiments, artefacts related to navy history, and a coin collection. The exhibitions cowl subjects regarding nearby history consisting of the Famine, recreation, the nearby Big Houses, the War of Independence and the Civil War, maritime history, in addition to World War I and II.