dry stone walling
This Lughnasa we will host our first heritage skills retreat since becoming owners of this beautiful land in South Kilkenny.
We will host master stone mason Fergal Packman who will instruct on the traditional skill of dry stone wall building. We will be building stone retaining walls in the sloping meadow for terraces for vegetables. Each participant will get hands on experience in this ancient skill and will leave with the competence to build their own walls.
Fergal will transmit from his 30 years of experience building stone walls of all sizes and variety in Ireland and abroad.
This is Irish permaculture at its best. To make use stone; of our abundant and free resource; to create a feature that is lasting, aesthetic and integrated.
You will be hosted by Diarmuid Lyng and Siobhán de Paor in this weekend of communal living on the land. We will occupy an outdoor kitchen, a campfire, compost toilet and relax with a dip in the river, a wander in the woods, a forage and a cómhrá.
This is a bilingual gathering and all participants are invited to use their beagán Gaeilge and make this an opportunity to reclaim their teanga from the recesses of memory.
Food will be local, wild and organic as far as possible. Vegetables from our own garden, raw milk and deer will feature.
Tickets are 350 euro and include a communal midday meal and camping accommodation. We also offer a concessionary rate for the unwaged of 300 euro. Participants staying offsite, attending from 9 to 5pm, can pay €250. Spaces are limited. A non-refundable deposit of 100 euros will secure your place.
We will post futher details as they clarify.
August 6th to 8th
dry stone walling
This Lughnasa we will host our first heritage skills retreat since becoming owners of this beautiful land in South Kilkenny.
We will host master stone mason Fergal Packman who will instruct on the traditional skill of dry stone wall building. We will be building stone retaining walls in the sloping meadow for terraces for vegetables. Each participant will get hands on experience in this ancient skill and will leave with the competence to build their own walls.
Fergal will transmit from his 30 years of experience building stone walls of all sizes and variety in Ireland and abroad.
This is Irish permaculture at its best. To make use stone; of our abundant and free resource; to create a feature that is lasting, aesthetic and integrated.
You will be hosted by Diarmuid Lyng and Siobhán de Paor in this weekend of communal living on the land. We will occupy an outdoor kitchen, a campfire, compost toilet and relax with a dip in the river, a wander in the woods, a forage and a cómhrá.
This is a bilingual gathering and all participants are invited to use their beagán Gaeilge and make this an opportunity to reclaim their teanga from the recesses of memory.
Food will be local, wild and organic as far as possible. Vegetables from our own garden, raw milk and deer will feature.
Tickets are 350 euro and include a communal midday meal and camping accommodation. We also offer a concessionary rate for the unwaged of 300 euro. Participants staying offsite, attending from 9 to 5pm, can pay €250. Spaces are limited. A non-refundable deposit of 100 euros will secure your place.
We will post futher details as they clarify.
August 6th to 8th
Imeachtaí ~ Events 2026
Anam an Teanga
Half-day workshop and Performance
le Siobhán de Paor
10th April: 2pm to 6pm
Workshop and Performance: €60
Performance only beginning at 5pm: €25
Studio Feasa, Gort, Galway
In this half day workshop, we will travel from the seed syllables of the Irish language to the digging words to reveal their philosophies: tochailt focail: fealsúnacht an teanga, Irish as language of devotion and invocation, as an ecologically sound language. Writing and speaking exercises where participants are encouraged to give.
Filíocht ó béal: intimate performance of
Meitheal an Cháisc
A community work day
8ú Aibréain, 2025
Join us for a day of work, community and Gaeilge. Fáilte to our first communal work day at Teacht Aniar. In the vibe of Easter renewal, we will tend to neglected corners of this beautiful place, with rakes, hoes, le smataire nó flúirse an Gaeilge.
Instead of a mooted Easter gathering and ritual, we are following what is essential and are holding an Easter Meitheal on Wednesday, 6th April.
Like any family home, there is any amount and variety of jobs for all levels of experience. Clearing, wedding, digging, cleaning gutters, making veg boxes, sowing. There is very satisfying clearing to be done.
There are also construction projects, building scaffolding for IBC tanks, fixing the gutter and building a compost toilet. Jobs will clarify as we approach the day.
Bring gloves, secatures, loppers, clippers, shovels, bill hooks. All tools welcome. We will provide a hot lunch for all those who contribute.
This is very much a family event so children are very welcome. There will be tea and coffee in the barn at 10am and a hot lunch at 1pm. If you would like to contribute a dish of food, that would be very much appreciated.
An Sána Suan
Sauna building course le Gaeilge
Join us as we build the Sána Suan ar bhruach an Dhoireleice, on the banks of the Derrylacky River.
A weekend course at Teacht Aniar, South Kilkenny in which you learn how to build your own sauna with master carpenter Johnny Connolly.
Learn basic carpentry skills, hands-on experience of joining and insulating and hear about ground works and sourcing materials for small builds. Connect with the growing community individuals who are creating their own homesteads.
Instruction will be in English and there will be foclóir an ghairm; the vocabulary of the trade agus naitheanna cainte eile (other expressions) woven throughout our days. Beimid ag baint úsáid as an méid Gaeilge atá againn. Seo deis do scilleanna agus do teanga a feabhsú ag an am chéana.
You will hear about the benefits of sauna and we will also attend private session at a local sauna.
There will be good wholesome and some wild food, dip in the river, morning yoga in the yurt/barn, evening session around the fire.
This is the second developmental retreat at Teacht Aniar a mutually beneficial model in which participants learn a skill, facilitating craftspeople are financially supported and we gain a lifelong resource for the place.
Tickets include camping accommodation and are €350 with all camping, meals, tutelage, sauna session included.
Day course only tickets are €280
August 28 - 30th, Teacht Aniar
Ag fí le Bríd
Lá dhá theangach do daoine fásta agus leanaí chun ceilúradh Imbolc agus Bríd.
A day for children and adults to celebrate our matron saint and to lay her brat on the ground to prepare the soil for the coming Spring. Le filíocht agus ceoil.
This is our first Lá na Clainne at Teacht Aniar. We will be weaving all different kinds of Bridget's crosses in the barn under the instruction of local expert Olive Keane. (author of the Holy Wells of Waterford).
As ye weave, i'll tell ye the story of Bridget, there will be poetry, there might be ceol. Fáilte roimh na ceoltóirí go háirithe.
Dress warm. There will be a big fire and hot tae and sweet things to keep us going.
We make a ritual after around the fire, with the brat Bríd. We'll bless our crosses in the river. We'll teach the children how a real amulet is made. Bainfhamíd úsáid as an Gaeilge atá againn.
Beidh sé áilainn.
Suggested Donation of €20 for an adult and €40 for a family
