Without a doubt a highlight of our stone year is

 Feile na gCloch

on the smallest of the Aran Islands; Inis Oírr

This year offers a letter cutting workshop with Tom Little

We use Kilkenny Limestone polished with various grades of paper

which brings up a black glassy surface full of fossils

We work in relief – a Celtic font from The Book of Kells

A sculpting workshop in sandstone is also on offer.  Friendly faces from afar journey here –  all for the love of stone.

Meanwhile along the busy shore road

 work begins on a new wall

This is a single skin wedge type, traditional to these islands

And particularly handsome it is

complete with stile

As ever the same problem – all too soon the ferry awaits

 but we are inspired once more