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| Name: Joe Lane, Trinity House Rowing Team location: Essex But a Real Corkman |
Well done for your efforts during the Ocean 2 City, Ye were very impressive and the crowds were great for ye when ye crossed over the Line. Hope to see you next year or maybe even in London for the Great River Race. Keep up the good work. | |
| Name: Cormac Mac Galloglai location: Achill, Co Mayo |
I like your site. It's the most informative around. Myself and my uncle recently built a pair of Achill currachs. He is one of the old currach builders. You can see photos of the build taken at different stages of construction at http://www.flickr.com/photos/11223588@N03/sets/72157601787174447/. If this link doesn't work and you're still interested, look for 'cormacgall', my profile name on flickr, and you will find them there. This currach design calls for a fully planked hull. We skinned and sealed them with fibreglass. In hindsight I should have used the ould tar and canvas. Never mind! Theres always another time. I have documented the construction process and I'm putting together a website to share my experiences. Alas, it wont be online until I get another build under my belt. I want to build using a design for speed rather than for work... a less flat base, narrower and with a higher bow and stern. I'll still keep with the planked hull though. Your site is a true gem and I commend you for it. | |
| Name: Cathal Mac Oireachtaigh location: Bray, Co Wicklow |
Welldone on this great project! Keepin the old ways & skills alive is a credit to yis. I'v rowed skiffs here on the east for a few years and recently a currach on the liffey and Dublin Bay, beautiful boats and without keel or rudder a different ballgame than skiff rowin ...Keep up the good work! Go n-eiri libh | |
| Name: Micheál location: Limerick |
Im very impressed by the dedication shown by the Limerick currach rowers and I wish them well this year. I hope that they start a trend in the city toward currachaí. Bail ó Dhia oraibh a bhuachaillí. | |
| Name: sharlene location: australia |
i am looking for thomas dudley alexander oconnel and thought you might know some information was born on 3rd june 1947 | |
| Name: Patric Mudge location: Exeter Devon UK |
Am married to a Murphy from Cork and come across regularly.I am looking for some plans no matter how rough, to build a currach ?Arran, approx 18',as a sea boat for mackeral and bass.Would like to run a 10hp outboard, as well as rowing/sail,but am concerned about transom height. Any info would be helpful | |
| Name: Michael O'Connell location: Querrin Co Clare |
Hi Here's a link to the past in the photo section clare library that will be of intrest to the currach community and people from the Carrigaholt area, Hedderman Carrigaholt Collection added to Foto, www.clarelibrary.ie. Louise I may have met your sister a few years ago but she could also have met another Ml O'Connell who resides in Kilkee. There were many O'Connell families in the Kilkee area in the earlier 1900's we may be related who knows. I would certainly meet with you next year. Keep in touch with my cousin Tom O'Connell NJ | |
| Name: Tom O'Connell location: NJ |
Louise ... If you are interested, I have been researching the O'Connell Family from Kilkee, I may know the connection. Contact me: TomOC1@aol.com | |
| Name: Louise O'Connell Mailey Ritti location: West Chester, PA |
Michael O'Connell! I may be related to you. My grandfather, Paddy (Patrick J.) O'Connell is from Kilkee. My sister, Janet Clarke, met you a few years ago. My husband & I are hoping to come to Ireland (for the 1st time) before Aug, 2008. If you're the person I think you are, We'd love to see you! | |
| Name: Norma & Elizabeth location: Galway |
Good Luck in London - Delighted to see the messages of support from all over the world - well deserved - continue the good work. | |
| Name: Micheál Breathnach location: Limerick |
Its great to see the interest in curach rowing, a fine pastime and a real tough, rewarding sport. Its a shame that the sport seems to be a bit scattered, it would be stronger if there were definate championships, say Galway (Inc Aran), Clare, Kerry, Donegal, Mayo (Inc Achill) etc titles, followed by all Ireland championships, a bit like the GAA. I watched teams rowing in Conamara since I was a kid and I saw some good crews, but what they and others achieved is mostly forgotten now because they had no yardstick to prove their worth and their victories were not formally recorded. | |
| Name: Bry Jackson location: N/E England |
As a grandson of a Kilrush man i love to visit the west coast. I have a 8 night holiday booked in Galway in September. I am dismayed to discover my timing is between two currach events in the area. I will enquire in Doonbeg to be better prepared next year. Good luck in your efforts in keeping a vital part of heritage alive. (Proud Grandson of Tommy Hannon) | |
| Name: Pat Cusack location: Bray |
Congratulations on the feature on the BBC Coast programme. it was a great showcase for the currach (canoe), West Clare and the West Clare Currach Club. | |
| Name: James O'Driscoll location: East Clare |
Hi, I’m just wondering what you would recommend for patching a Currach. It’s only a 3” long slit in the canvass. Where could I get my hands on Tar & Canvass in the Clare area? I also heard that some people use denim to patch them. Also is there tar available that you don’t need to add pitch to? Thanks in advance for any help, James | |
| Name: Steve Flannery location: Athlone. |
Keep up the traditional craft lads ! Looking forward to meeting you all again during the 2007 season. | |
| Name: Bob location: cork |
Anyone know where i can get plans to build a homemade small 2 man curruch. Any help would really be appreciated. | |
| Name: Jess Diamondstone location: Southern Vermont, USA |
Hello, we are a family rooted in wilderness craft. My husband, Michael has been building birch bark canoes with crook knife, frow and ax for many years. This spring we plan to produce a film documenting the construction of this ancient boat using pre-contact methods...with stone and bone tools, no steel. We would love to use this as an opportunity to begin a cultural exchange with craftspeople in Ireland. Would anyone like to come join us? In exchange perhaps we could help in some project of a similar nature in Ireland. This could be great fun! Our phone number is 802-254-9403 in Dummerston, Vermont | |
| Name: Al Watkins location: Lexington, VA, USA |
My mom spoke of a boat her family had up at New Quay. Have secured a nice set of plans and hope to build a currach this year to begin a trip to Key West via the intracoastal waterway in my dottage. Also am working the local festivals to start a rowing club here. Will look you up next stay in Ballyvaughan and will keep an eye on your site. Al Watkins Lexington VA USA awatkins5@aol.com | |
| Name: Bob location: Oregon,USA |
Good website. Hope to build a currach soon.Also a return trip to Ireland this spring. | |
| Name: j m bau location: united states |
Hi, I am glad to see this project and the information you have written. I have been doing my genealogy and my grandma had told me that her father had been a carpenter but it wasn't until I did research that I realized my great grandfather was the famous John "Cully" Marrinan. It is exciting to see that some one famous is part of your family tree.I am related to his youngest child Ellen "Nellie" Marrinan who came alone to America in the 1920's when she was only 18.(I have had lots of viruses coming from Ireland while I have been doing my genealogy research so I am sorry about not being more detailed with my personal info.). I would like to learn more about this project. I will privately e-mail you. JM | |
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