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Learn how to build, maintain & repair
stone earthen banks

Where: Soul Sanctuary, Camolin, County Wexford

When: September 20th & 21st, 2025

​What: A local style wedged/herringbone stone earthen bank.​​

For more information and to book a place call  Bernadette 0879921340

Two day workshop :

Introduction to dry stone walling.

How to build and repair freestanding double dry stone walls

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September 27th & 28th

  Weekend In The Hills
with CELT
Slieve Aughty Centre, Galway

Feile na gCloch 2009

Feile na gCloch 2009

This was the first dry stone walling workshop I went to after spending a year training in Tralee

Stein & Wein 2015: An example of an Irish Feidin Wall with Ken Curran and Sunny Wieler

Stein & Wein 2015: An example of an Irish Feidin Wall with Ken Curran and Sunny Wieler

Kenneth was an instructor at the inaugural Stein & Wein dry stone walling event in Austria and has returned in 2018 and 2023

Stonefest 2014: Ken was a scholarship attendee at this event

Stonefest 2014: Ken was a scholarship attendee at this event

Returning home from the scholarship to Stonefest 2014

2011 Dry built 'Urbanite' retaining wall: private client Nenagh

2011 Dry built 'Urbanite' retaining wall: private client Nenagh

This retaining wall was built from recycled broken up footpaths that the client sourced from a local authority yard nearby. The wall was built with apprentices over a season with Ken as the lead tutor.

Stein und Wein 2015

Stein und Wein 2015

The 'Feidin Wall' from Stein & Wein 2015. By Kenneth Curran (EarthStone) and Sunny Wieler (Stone Art)

2017 West Cork Stone Symposium

2017 West Cork Stone Symposium

The 50 plus meters of wall built during the WCSS 2017 at which Kenneth Curran (EarthStone) was an instructor

Munster Wall @ Gathering of Stones

Munster Wall @ Gathering of Stones

The Munster Wall at The Gathering of Stones. It is built in a single freestanding wedged wall style.

Leaders in Stone Summit 2014

Leaders in Stone Summit 2014

Creative dry stone wall landscape feature and seat built during the Leaders in Stone Summit, Whitbey Island, Washington State, USA, 2014

Leaders in Stone Summit 2014

Leaders in Stone Summit 2014

Impromptu dry stone feature built by a group of us attending the stone summit including

Feile nagCloch 2016

Feile nagCloch 2016

The Inis Oirr Dry Stone Walling Festival 2016 wall

Feile na gCloch 2013

Feile na gCloch 2013

The dry stone wall built during the festival on Inis Oirr in 2013

Feile na gCloch 2012: Wedged Dry Stone Retaining Wall

Feile na gCloch 2012: Wedged Dry Stone Retaining Wall

Built as part of the Dry Stone Walling Workshops Inis Oirr 2012. This one was crazy fun to build!!

Feile na gCloch 2011

Feile na gCloch 2011

The 2011 Inis Oirr Dry Stone Walling Workshops crew.

Feile na gCloch 2011

Feile na gCloch 2011

Footings going in for the Féile na gCloch 2011 dry stone walling workshops.

Féile na gCloch 2010

Féile na gCloch 2010

The 2010 dry stone walling workshop on Inis Oirr

Féile na gCloch 2009

Féile na gCloch 2009

A section from the 2009 Inis Oirr dry stone walling workshops.

Dry Stone Canada Irish-Canadian Festival 2015

Dry Stone Canada Irish-Canadian Festival 2015

This solar construct was designed by John Bland a dry stone waller and sculptor based in Ontario. John is a member of Dry Stone Canada. he designed the solar alignment for the Amherst Island Irish-Canadian Dry Stone Festival 2015. Kenneth attended as a guest Irish waller.

Demonstration wall at Making Festival 2024

Demonstration wall at Making Festival 2024

DSWAI volunteering at the making Festival, Ulster Folk Museum, Belfast, 2024

2013 The Munster Wall under construction at The gathering of Stone inaugural event

2013 The Munster Wall under construction at The gathering of Stone inaugural event

EarthStone workshop wall 2022

EarthStone workshop wall 2022

Built by participants in the Mid-Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Program 2022. Designed by EarthStone. The stone is a local 'ironstone' sandstone. It was had picked and the standing stones installed in advance of the workshop. EarthStone and the participants built the wall together over 2 days..

Stein & Wein 2023

Stein & Wein 2023

At this event an amphitheatre, a fire pit and a pizza over were constructed.

Stein & Wein 2023

Stein & Wein 2023

Recycled columns as the supports for the base of the pizza oven.

Wedged retaining wall Mid-Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Program Autumn 2022

Wedged retaining wall Mid-Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Program Autumn 2022

Castlecomer Discovery Park

2022 Mid Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Program 2022

2022 Mid Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Program 2022

EarthStone delivered the 2022 Dry Stone walling workshops at this event. Participants built a section of single wedged retaining wall using local sandstone.

Dry Stone Canada Festival 2014

Dry Stone Canada Festival 2014

Workshop features 'Fieldstone Cradles' built by beginners at the festival

CELT July 2025

CELT July 2025

2 day Introduction to building, repairing and maintaining freestanding double dry stone walls. In 2025 Ken@EarthStone joined the CELT team of tutors at the Weekend In The Hills event. It has been very enjoyable so far........

Goban Saor and The Legend of The Two Tailed Cat

Goban Saor and The Legend of The Two Tailed Cat

County Tipperary, carved in Tipperary Sandstone and depicting Goban Saor and the two tailed cat. The image of An Goban Saor was adopted from a painting by Artist Bob O'Cathail. This piece was donated to the Clocha na hÉireann (Stones of Ireland) monument constructed to celebrate the centenary year 2016

2 day Introduction to Dry Stone Walling May 2025

2 day Introduction to Dry Stone Walling May 2025

How to build, repair and maintain freestanding, single dry stone walls. @Weekend In The Hills, Slieve Aughty Centre, Galway

Volunteering with DSWAI June 2024

Volunteering with DSWAI June 2024

a NBHS funded dry stone walling workshop at Mount Dalton, Westmeath, Summer 2024

Volunteering with DSWAI

Volunteering with DSWAI

NBHS funded workshop on dry stone walling. Mount Dalton Farm, Westmeath May 2024

An Maidrin Rua - Bushcraft School 2022

An Maidrin Rua - Bushcraft School 2022

Learning about the amazing caddisfly as an 'Underwater stonemason' during bushcraft and nature connection workshops with primary school children

Gallery of teaching & volunteering at Dry Stone Walling events since 2009

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