by sunnywieler@gmail.com | May 10, 2026 | dry stone construction, Stonework, Travel, workshops
This blog post was originally written Dec 1, 2015 was a busy month for stone festivals. First we returned to ‘The Gathering of Stones‘ site to put the final arch in place and to make plans for the final push to completion of our dry stone monument. Then with little...
by sunnywieler@gmail.com | May 10, 2026 | dry stone construction, Stonework, workshops
This blog post was originally written Jul 4, 2015 Well the stone festival season is well and truly upon us. This year I started my festival season with a trip to Austria’s largest wine-producing town, Langenlois. The wine however was just a indulgence and not my...
by sunnywieler@gmail.com | May 9, 2026 | dry stone construction, Stonework, workshops
This blog post was originally written Oct 1, 2013 So two weekends ago I made my annual retreat to Inis Oirr, the smallest of the three islands that make up the Arran Islands in Galway bay. Although this was only my third year attending Feile na gCloch (Festival of...
by sunnywieler@gmail.com | May 5, 2026 | Heritage Sites, Stonework
This blog post was originally written Sep 29, 2011 Last weekend I attended my first dry stone walling workshop on Inis Oírr Island. And I am already looking forward to going back next year. For those of you who don’t know where Inis Oírr (Inisheer) is, it is the...
