Ilen Marine School

Owners and operators of ketch Ilen (1926). Our 2022 projects are Kingship and Limerick to London cultural voyage.

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

Passing .@ilenproject in her element just off the sovereigns this afternoon #kinsale #WildAtlanticWay

[BC @mildthing99]

*Sailing by*
Auxiliary Ketch Ilen, the last of Ireland’s traditional wooden sailing ships, heading south past #Wicklow and Bride's Head, Ireland
@ilenproject @StormHour @ThePhotoHour @MetEireann @MarineInsight @ShipsInPics @EcoClipper

[Ilen Marine School @ilenproject]

Sail Training Ireland Awards Certification to Fifty Young People from 13 Counties Throughout Ireland https://t.co/MPIMFXolAf

[Gerry Owens @Seapoint1000er]

Great to see @ilenproject in Dun Laoghaire harbour today and looking so well.

[Tom MacSweeney Seascapes @TomMacSweeney]

Climatologists and environmentalists have demonised #coal but it was the fuel which kept Ireland going, carried by #vessels like the Queen of Ballinacurra through the harshest of times. Read more in THE ECHO Cork today Maritime Cork column.

[Ruairí Ó Conchúir @RuairiOConchuir]

Memories of Ice

On route to Kapisillit, Greenland, 24 July 2019, as part of the @ilenproject 'Salmon's Wake'

[Ilen Marine School @ilenproject]

@FearStairLmk That is a strange news piece - alas written by one who had little naval knowledge. Nonetheless, the author was moved to record the event - which if only portion is true, makes that small vessels young master a most capable and venturesome boy - not withstanding his infirmity.

[Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 @florNEWS]

The beautiful @ilenproject stealing quietly out of Baltimore harbour early this morning #WestCork

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Yesterday Ilen gently relinquished the tidal shelter of Limerick’s Floating Dock to once again answered willingly the call of the sea.

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Ilen took the west going tide to pass Barrington’s Pier, Limerick City this morning.

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Ilen anchored off Mac Mahon castle, Collage Bay, Carrigaholt. The bay is named after O’ Curry College, established 1912 & named in honour of local man - renowned Irish scholar, Eugene O’ Curry. The college was founded by Limerick’s Neilí O’ Brian sister of Conor - Ilen’s designer

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Painting by local artist D Hedderman - Schooner at Carrigaholt Quay & Mac Mahon tower house (painted 1970s & hanging at Carmody’s Pub Carrigaholt). I was happy to fulfill a modest desire when I brought Ilen alongside the very same wall last week. Ilen back at Carrigaholt tonight

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Crew change - Ilen at Limerick City today and at Canical, Madeira October 1926.

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Ilen slips away and our from Limerick City.

[Ilen Marine School @ilenproject]

@holland_tom @TheRestHistory I was in London last April and got to see this relic - having sailed from walled Limerick.

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Ilen at Limerick Dock awaiting her next crew, anchorage tomorrow afternoon at Carrigaholt when her Shannon Estuary water survay (“citizen science” no less, as I have recently been informed) will get completed. The Estuary informs and influences so much of what Limerick was and is

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Early start

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Three vents beneath the Three Sisters.

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Wind Shadow

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@EmmettOBrienIND @ringmoylan Ringmoylan is a great quay - when one has turf to discharge.

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Tidy up - making ready for next trip.