| The conditions were terrible and you couldn't have launched a lifeboat that day, not to mind a currach. |
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| The antipasti were served on a long white dish, not unlike a white currach. |
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| For example a local man with a currach, who wouldn't have tonnage, has to go out and spend in the region of six or seven thousand pounds in order to fish for lobsters. |
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| The other two islands were long accessible only by currach, a primitive type of boat. |
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| We unloaded the bike and placed the panniers in the currach, then balanced the bike precariously on top. |
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| This was an ideal and rare opportunity to see a traditional canvas currach in use and the Indian summer weather ensured ideal conditions for oarsmen and onlookers. |
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| Where once the harbour might have had a currach or two tied up, the inlet is now festooned with yachts and dinghies and motor boats and punts of all shapes and sizes. |
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| So I was delighted to be in Kilkee for the launching of new currachs by the local community which maintain the tradition of currach building in West Clare. |
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| The project had three main elements, the construction of the boat, the launch of the currach and the acquisition of the currach into the National Museum collection. |
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| Anyone within hailing distance of a currach should get over there. |
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| In the sixth century Saint Brendan set off from the west coast of Ireland in a small currach made of wicker and oxhide to search for the Isles of the Blessed. |
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| The Boyne currach is unique in that it was specifically designed to navigate the River Boyne in Ireland. |
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| During the civil war, Caesar made use of a kind of boat he had seen used in Britain, similar to the Irish currach or Welsh coracle. |
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| Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets. |
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| In 1977 The voyage was successfully recreated by Tim Severin using an ancient Irish Currach. |
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