Keith,

Custy's is always a must stop for me. There is also a Instrument store in City Centre Galway which we always visit. Of course, a visit into the connemara has me stopping in Roundstone to visit with Malachy at Roundstone Music. There is a very tiny instrument shop, set back off Fisher Street, in Doolin which has quite a collection of instruments for being so tiny and remote. They are also reasonable in their prices. In Dublin, Charles Byrne Music Shop. They have been luthiers for four generations. If you make it into NI, Colin Morison, in Downpatrick, builds some fabulous guitars and plays fabulus Flamenco & Classical Guitar. Michael O'Leary , one of Ireland's finest Luthiers, has a workshop in Co. Carlow. There is a staionery & Music store in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, which has an interesting selection of instruments to write home about.
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If you make it to Co. Carlow, they have a terrific Trad Club which has a variety of different seissuns. As for elsewhere, I must have been blessed by the Faeries, as we never failed to find a seissun to join that wasn't full to bursting with talent. Usually, we would stop into a town centre pub in the early afternoon, share a drink up at the bar and ask the bartender where the best trad seissun was to be had in that particular town. He would take in our hats & boots, smile and do his best John Wayne impression. Then, he would give us a few suggestions as to where to go for that evening and by the next he would have a trad seissun up and going in his pub.

I hope this helps.

Slan Beo,

Bit

Thanks Bit for the great great information. That gives me many posibilities.

I figured if I wore my Resistol to Ireland I would be put in with the cows..........

Bit has good info regarding Malachy Kearns shop in Roundstone. We were lucky to be able to sit and talk to him since the afternoon was slow. It was quite an experience. His gift shop and little cafe were wonderful
Youngka