The Quilty Currach Building Course

Well, 3 Aran-style 3-hand currachs were built and launched on August 15th 2004 in Quilty following a 6 day course given by Padraig O'Duinnin from Meitheal Mara. The course was run in St. Joseph's Community School, Spanish Point, many thanks to Mary Crawford the school principal. So why the "Quilty Currachs" ? Well, 7 of the ten students on the course were from Quilty, the launch was in Quilty, the crabclaws came ashore at Quilty. And since we're at the questions, why the "currach" building course and not the "Canoe" building course ? Well, even though the traditional boats are called canoes from Quilty and southwards in County Clare, the boats we built were currachs, so...

Loads of pictures available of the currach building course. I've started organising them here and all the images can be seen here.

Here are two accounts of the course from John Joe Ryan and Sarah Wall

Here's what currach-builders look like

One of the three currachs built is up for sale

-- ColmOGairbhith - 21 Jul 2005
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