Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder, still in the wild west of Ireland.

I've come today to Glen Collum Kill, which is a folk village, which feels, well, I've just spoken to somebody who said,

yes, the next parish is Boston in the United States.

But it is a fascinating village, created, I understand, in 1967.

And I'm with Margaret Rose Cunningham, who's the manager here.

Hello, Margaret.

Hello, to Faltierote. You're very welcome here to Glen Cullum Kill today. What are people going to find out here? Well, they're going to find out the

way of life here, going back to the 1700s. It's a small thatched village. Six of the

cottages are thatched, and we grow the thatch locally and it's thatched by local

thatcher so on the onset they arrive and it's very authentic we're looking out over the coast and looking

out over glenhead so all of the artifacts are original and the way that they were built was all

originally kind of orchestrated as well, which is really aesthetically

pleased and nestled into the landscape nicely.

They tell a story of life really on the edge, most definitely of Western Europe, where in the far

north-west of the continent, next stop, the US.

And it seems very, very, life seems tough here.

Yes, it probably was tougher.

It was tough in the past, but they were very resilient.

And this region, I don't know if you'd realise,

created an awful lot of traditional musicians,

fiddle playing, and because it was tough and it was out there, a lot of the language was saved

in the way of life. Like we'd be well known for crafts here and we still take part in doing crafts

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