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Photography Retreat

Tutorials, on location shoots and the very best of food and luxury accommodation. @withinthevillageroundstone. Creative team: @cliodhnaprendergast @dkilfeather @katiejsanderson @ruthforsyth

Further details www.cliodhnaprendergast.com

Photography Retreat

The objective of this workshop is to enable participants to capture the essence of their subjects beyond the obvious to consider new perspectives. Please click this link to find out more and to book: Photography Workshop—Cliodhna Prendergast; Photography, Editorial, Workshops and Photographic Prints @cliodhnaprendergast @dkilfeather @katiesanderson and @ruthforsyth and our guest Max Jones from @uptherethelast Staying at our favourite @withinthevillageroundstone

Wellness Retreat

Savour exquisite organic, vegetarian food, crafted with love and passion by our own in-house private chef Aideen, using the freshest, local ingredients. @therippleeffectyoga @landloverfood

But that’s not all! We are thrilled to host a special creative workshop aimed at letting your creativity flow in this inspiring environment guided by the expertise of Lynne.@tripod_design. Let your journey to your best self begin!

For further information and to book you space contact Eimear @therippleeffectyogaoron 085 7481260

Literary Retreat

This intensive writing and coaching workshop is an incredibly valuable opportunity to spend time deepening one’s own writing practice working closely with the Browns.@bogandthunder @adriennemareebrown @autumnmeghanbrown. Bog & Thunder are intentional about every location we are in or visit, every bite we eat and in valuing the time of our local Irish teachers who will join us. @manchanmagan@wildawakeireland @mckeown.laurence @4hands_food_studio For more information visit: www.bogandthunder.com/wnw Photography Retreat March 8th to 11th, 2024

Lucy Jackson Design

All our wonderful maps, booklets, logos, etc. have been created by Lucy Jackson, a local Ballyconneely based graphic designer and artist.They are provided to help our guests learn about all the fabulous things Roundstone and Connemara has to offer year round.

Mishnóc

Mishnoc have been trading in Galway since 2011 and created the leather bound folders found in each house containing important house and visitor information for guests. Their simple ethos is to provide well made, handmade, beautiful Irish leather products that will last.

Cloon Keen Candles

Artisan Scents Rooted in Irish Tradition. Cloon Keen is a uniquely Irish perfumer and candle maker based in Galway. The inspiration for Cloon Keen is Ireland and, more specifically, Galway, Connemara and the West. The smell you get when you enter Within the Village is from the beautiful Etain candle.

Freshly Baked Goods

Anne DeCourcey, a local lady bakes fresh bread daily for all our guests on arrival and fresh scones each morning, which are delivered to each house to go with the morning coffee.

Irish Laserwood

ATU Connemara (Letterfrack) is a nearby centre of excellence for furniture makers).The house wooden boxes, personalised keyrings, and cheese boards were made and lasered by 2009 graduate Eoin Kirwan. The box is made from Irish oak, uses traditional woodworking joints along with modern technologies to cut the text on the top of the box.

Cleggan Flowers

A sustainable flower farm based in Cleggan, Connemara growing beautiful, seasonal flowers. We look forward to our weekly delivery from Siobhan in the Summer months to brighten up each house for our guests.

@clegganfarmflowers

Paddy O’Malley

Paddy O’Malley makes art from out of studying the shoreline. His concrete pieces look like a part of the beach was picked up at low tide the way the waves arranged it and dropped in someone’s house. He has the utmost respect for Mother Nature, she is both his muse and, in many cases, his material.

Enquire about Paddy’s work at provenance-interior.ie

Tweed Project

The Tweed Project created handmade, one off pieces that combine beautiful Irish fabrics with modern tailoring for a truly authentic expression of Irish design.

The collection is made entirely of Irish fabrics, in Ireland for the world.

Operating from a small Atelier in Galway, the collection is hand made from specially selected cuts of premium Donegal Tweed and Irish Linen. Being small means that each garment gets all the love and attention that makes for an authentic one off piece of Irish design.

Joe Hogan

Joe Hogan has been making baskets at Loch na Fooey since 1978 and in that time has earned a reputation for making strong, durable baskets of the highest quality. The colours in these award winning baskets are those of the natural willows which are grown at Loch na Fooey.

In 2012 he began making nests. The aim has not been to make copies of the nests of various species of birds but rather to make nest-like objects which prompt the feeling that we are looking at a bird’s nest and thus evoke some of the feelings of joy and wonder which might accompany the finding of nests in the wild. The nests have an artlessness to them as I do not want it to be obvious that they have been made by a person.

In October 2021, he was the Crafts Council of Ireland Lifetime Achievement Award winner and received his award at Dublin Castle from President of Ireland / Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins.

Cliodhna Prendergast

Cliodhna lives in Connemara and has a natural talent and deep love for photography, food and travel writing.

Cliodhna’s work has been featured in publications including House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, IMAGE Interiors & Living, The Irish Times, Garden Heaven, and the Financial Times’ How To Spend It magazine.

With every publication, people always ask where they could purchase Cliodhna’s photography. So she has lovingly curated a selection of her favourite images into a series of limited edition prints for purchase online in her print shop.

Dorothy Cross

Dorothy Cross (born 1956) is an Irish artist. Working with differing media, including sculpture, photography, video and installation, she represented Ireland at the 1993 Venice Biennale.

She is represented by Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Mark Grehan

Mark is an award-winning landscape designer from the West of Ireland but based in Dublin. He collaborates closely with his clients from concept to execution, delivering wild, elegant and contemporary garden designs.

Early in his landscaping career, Mark was awarded the Silver Gilt medal at Bloom, Ireland’s prestigious garden festival for his ‘Inis Oirr Garden’. The winning design, featuring stone walls and wild Burren landscaping is typical of his approach to landscape gardening. Staying true to nature and all that it brings, Mark’s work embraces the context and environment of every garden he designs.

Ben Gabriel

Gabriel Furniture is a family business, headed by Ben Gabriel and his son Joshua, and is based in Galway, the west of Ireland since 1996.

Originally from The Netherlands, Ben Gabriel trained and worked in the UK and Australia before he and his family settled in Ireland. Joshua graduated from Letterfrack Furniture College in 2011 and has worked in various workshops both here in Ireland (Joseph Walsh) and Switzerland before joining the business in Galway. The company specialises in designing/making furniture for batch-production and individual projects for private and corporate clients. The designs are often developed by using geometry in an innovative way, which gives it their “playful” character. Individual projects are designed and created by working closely with the client to provide them with innovative and inspirational furniture.

“Good Design is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”

Panfili Design

Studio Panfili is a Galway based interior design firm providing clients with a personal and bespoke interior design service since 2006. They create spaces that are a reflection of the personalities of their clients.

Peter Murphy Lighting

Peter Murphy is a family run business who, for the past 35 years, have been providing the people of Galway City, County, Connemara and the Islands with top quality lighting and electrical appliances. Visit Peter or Paul in their shop in Westside or shop online for any of the lighting or appliances you see in the Suites.

Peter Murphy Snr. who sadly passed away in January 2023, brought Naughtons travelling shop out to Connemara in the 1950’s and had many fond memories and spoke often of calling on many local businesses in Roundstone, in particular to Padraig Faherty in Connolly’s Bar and Shop where Within the Village resides today. Ar dheis de go raibh a anam

Brendan Murphy Traditional Country Furniture Maker

The Pine Rack is a traditional country workshop and showroom situated in Ballintubber, Claremorris, adjacent to the historical Ballintubber Abbey. Brendan made all the little stools, coat hooks and Galway market baskets you see around the Suites.

Brendan makes bespoke pieces from new and reclaimed pine which he sources locally. His pieces represent the presence of the past and can be custom designed and made to order. The best place to reach Brendan is every Saturday at the Galway Market or on LinkedIn

Sarah Jenkinson Baskets

Sarah is a Willow basket maker based in Galway on the West coast of Ireland. She weaves sustainable willow baskets using a lot of colour taking inspiration from the colour palette of the Connemara landscape.

Calendar Coffee

Founded in 2018, Calendar Coffee is 100% owned and run by its founders Zarah Lawless and Daniel Boobier and they roast it in Oughterard, the gateway to Connemara. Please drop into them on your way to or from Roundstone or visit their online store.

Galway Crystal

Galway Irish Crystal is one of the leading giftware brands in Ireland and are based on the outskirts of Galway city. They sell to the public in their showrooms and through their online business. Their showrooms have a beautiful shop where you can get lost shopping and then dine in their onsite restaurant on a wet day in the region.

Irish Linen

Our Irish Linen Curtains and Blinds were sourced by Rosie at Provenance Town & Country Interiors on the main street in Clifden. The Provenance style is informal yet considered using simple designs with natural textures and colours. Drop over to Clifden to visit Rosie’s beautiful shop or visit their website

Burren Perfumery

Burren Perfumery is a small, West of Ireland, family owned company making cosmetics and perfumes inspired by the landscape. Everything is made by hand in small batches and come in recyclable containers.

To purchase from our local supplier Sadie in Co. Clare, please visit their website

Inish Living

LUXURY 100% Tencel Lyocell Bed Linen range, exquisitely silk like, gentle & soft against your skin. Designed for restorative sleep with excellent temperature regulation. SUSTAINABLY derived from wood pulp.

To purchase from our local supplier Christina in Co. Kerry, please visit her website.

Roundstone Ceramics

Our LOCAL supplier and neighbour Seamus lives in Roundstone village so please visit his wonderful workshop to purchase some of his pottery to take home as a souvenir of your trip to Connemara. Seamus Laffin has been making unique stoneware in Roundstone since 1981 and his pottery is both beautiful and made to last.

“It was a great pleasure for me to be asked to curate the art selection for ‘Within the Village’. My focus for selection sat in with the owner’s vision for a gathering of talent from the surrounding area. Less local art and more individuals powered creatively by the vision of the surrounding landscape. Predominantly the selection was women artists but that wasn’t conscious. It is just the work that resonated most strongly.
Of course, we couldn’t not include the cerebral work of the great Joe Hogan. Here we chose his less conventional pieces in favour of his more sculptural and conceptual works.
In addition to the selection of art works, I worked closely with the owners in creating the shared vision of the aesthetic and functional space that showcases the immense local craft people and makers within the region. The resulting offering, we hope, stands the test of time as a space within a place both with a strong and deep identity.”
Aoibheann MacNamara

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Photography Retreat

Photography Retreat

Wellness Retreat

Literary Retreat

Lucy Jackson Design

Mishnóc

Cloon Keen Candles

Freshly Baked Goods

Irish Laserwood

Cleggan Flowers

Paddy O’Malley

Tweed Project

Joe Hogan

Cliodhna Prendergast

Dorothy Cross

Mark Grehan

Ben Gabriel

Panfili Design

Peter Murphy Lighting

Brendan Murphy Traditional Country Furniture Maker

Sarah Jenkinson Baskets

Calendar Coffee

Galway Crystal

Irish Linen

Burren Perfumery

Inish Living

Roundstone Ceramics