Island Turf Crafts Visitor Centre

5000 years ago in Ireland, the great Elk wondered through the forest and mountains. It was a land of sweeping mists, gentle rain and soft sunlight. A land of pagan carvings and mysterious rituals it was the time of CuChulainn, Queen Maeve and the Red Branch Knights.

Today Island Turf Crafts have captured the very essence of that era. Turf from that golden age has been excavated to produce a range of giftware, including Celtic crosses, harps, picture frames and jewellery.

Island Turf Crafts gifts are hand-crafted using 5000 year-old Irish peat from some of Europe's oldest bog lands. The unique antique brown finish highlights every detail of the delicate ancient Celtic designs.

Observe the craftsmen at work while exploring the bog museum with reconstructed life styles and habits of pre-historic Ireland with artefacts excavated from Irish boglands.

Island Turf Crafts are proving to be a roaring success with corporate clients, particularly for corporate gifts and sports trophies. Their clocks make ideal gifts and can be personalised with your company logo. If you would like to enquire about commissioning corporate gifts please feel free to contact them.

They have recently opened a Bog Museum. It reconstructs the life styles and habits of prehistoric Ireland excavated from Irish Boglands. It includes old artefacts which reveal much about the rich and varied history of Ireland before and after the Ice Age. They have an indoor bog, bones and large antlers of the Great Irish Elk dating back 15,000 years and bog oak sculptures and turf products.