School & Network for Wooden Boat Building


The Ilen School facilitates the direct experience of hands on work. Applied to wood and traditional boatbuilding crafts in particular, this can result in beautiful community craft.

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Re-Building The Ilen


The eponymous sailing ketch Ilen 1926, our flagship, the last of Ireland’s traditional wooden sailing ships has been given a new breath of life…

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Limerick to London 2022


Limerick to London April 2022 – the last timber-built, sail trading ship in Ireland, the Ilen, will set off from the river port of Limerick, in Ireland, bound for the great river city of London, in England.

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