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Wool & Sheep Centre in Leenane

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We decided to take the scenic route to the Wool & Sheep Centre in Leenane. Arriving in Tullycross, we turned right towards Leenane, stopping for a walk along Lettergesh Beach, which was really beautiful. We knew the tide was coming in so it was a reasonably quick walk as we didn’t want to get cut off on the wrong side of a huge rocky outcrop that had seaweed growing at least 2 metres above the sand. Lettergesh is a beautiful tidal beach that completely disappears when the tide comes in.

West of Ireland Black Faced Sheep

We drove along the narrow road which hugged the edge of the very pretty Lough Fee.[Read More]

Knit Circus Socks

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The Burren, Co Clare

Knit Circus Socks

On our drive from the Gap of Dunloe, Co Kerry to Connemara, Co Galway we decided to take a little longer and drive along the coast of the Burren, Co Clare. I visited the Burren about 10 years ago, but Neil had never been to the Burren. We passed a few pull in spots with coaches and hoards of people until we came to a small single car pull in spot beneath a steep slope.[Read More]

Sheep’s Head Peninsula Walk to Lighthouse

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We decided to drive around the Sheep’s Head Peninsula to enjoy a walk to the Lighthouse after we visited Sheep’s Head Yarns. We reached Kilcrohane about 30 minutes before they closed Sheep’s Head Yarns on the last day of the Sheep’s Head Yarn Festival.

Sheeps Head Peninsula

We’d missed the primary yarn market, but I bought two skeins of hand-dyed sock yarn by Strand Designs from the Sheep’s Head Shop. [Read More]

Sheep’s Head Peninsula Yarnbombing

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This is the first of my posts from our very recent holiday in Co Kerry and Co Galway. I’m not going to post what we did in chronological order. However, our first main outing was our trip to Sheep’s Head Yarns and Peninsula. I hope you will enjoy the posts, and we were fortunate with the weather. It was hot and sunny (for the west of Ireland, this is unusual) for our whole trip… which was amazing, but I hadn’t been expecting it to be this pretty warm and hadn’t packed for hot weather!

Sheep's Head Yarn Festival Kilcrohane

I’d heard about the Sheep’s Head Yarn Festival on Twitter and had noticed that the last day of the festival was the day after we arrived in Co Kerry, although the Yarn Festival was being held in Co Cork, a pretty long way from where we were staying.[Read More]