Sheep’s Head Peninsula Yarnbombing

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!

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.

We had a slow start to the day as we were tired after the long drive the day before. When we remembered the Yarn Festival, it was after 11 am, and I said:” We’re too late”. Neil said, “Let’s go, even if we only arrive for the last hour or so”!

Thomasina (our TomTom) directed us up through the Gap of Dunloe, through Black Valley and towards Co Cork. About halfway, we stopped at Molly Gallivan’s Cottage on the Beara Peninsula to stretch our legs and eat vanilla ice cream, as it was a hot day.

We reached Kilcrohane on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula about 30 minutes before they closed the Yarn Market, which was pretty impressive!

The organising committee had worked very hard organising the Sheep’s Head Yarn Festival, and there was some very cool yarn bombing situated around the village. I love the creativity that people show with yarn bombing. It is fun and exciting and adds colour to the village.

We wandered through the village, walking up the hill past the church to Eileen’s Pub, where we relaxed for a while, sipping a cold drink and listening to the banter in several different languages. The pub was busy with many walkers walking on the Sheep’s Head Way. It is a beautiful walk around this pretty peninsula.

A friendly black and white dog was very busy introducing himself to everyone.

The visit to Kilcrohane on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula was worth every moment of the drive to enjoy the afternoon sunshine and the yarn bombing.

Sadly, it had taken us longer to arrive than expected, so we only had a short time to look around the shop and yarn market as most vendors were packing their yarns.

I heard they will hold the Sheep’s Head Yarn Festival again next year. So do watch their website to find out when it will be held. It sounded like everyone had thoroughly enjoyed themselves.