heritage centres around connemara

We are a family run business situated among rugged boglands and great views of the Twelve Bens. We stock excellent hand woven tweeds from Clifden and Donegal, also a very large selection of hand knit sweaters in a wide range of patterns and colours. We also stock the famous Connemara marble and crafts made from the local turf, also paintings from local artists and a good selection of books and tapes. We are an award winning crafts shop and well worth a visit....

Facilities:
Farm Homestead, Neolithic site (5000 years old), Fulacht Fiadh & Pre-historic Dolmen tomb, History presentation on Connemara, Audio Visual Room, Restaurant & Craft shop.

Cater for coaches, toilets, telephone, Bureau de Change. All major credit cards accepted. Ample parking space. Irish and German spoken....

Patrick Pearse (1879 - 1916) The executed leader of the 1916 uprising, spent some of his leisure time in this modest thatched cottage where he took the opportunity to improve his knowledge of the Irish language among the local speakers.

The interior, although burned during the War of Independence, has been reconstructed and contains a number of mementoes of Pearse, the idealistic school teacher, whose rebellion and death are considered to have been a turning point in Irish histor...