Existing stones and metal can be reused at ESL, where in-house goldsmiths remodel jewellery alongside making custom pieces. The workshop also works with lab-grown diamonds, giving its commissions a separate material option from remodelling existing jewellery. Galway's Ór Jewellery brings contemporary Irish designers together with selected in-house collections in a mother-and-daughter-owned shop. The Kinsale shoreline informs the contemporary pieces at Alice Jewellery, whose independent studio also accepts custom commissions.
Brookwood Pottery combines Elaine Fallon's ceramics studio with a design shop in Marino, Dublin. Its own stoneware tableware sits alongside jewellery and other work by Irish makers. Pottery classes provide a way to spend time working with clay as well as choosing a finished piece.
Best for Stoneware tableware and Irish craft in Dublin
Brookwood Pottery brings making and retail together in Marino, Dublin. Elaine Fallon established the business in 2012 and opened the Marino design shop and studio in 2021. Its own stoneware includes mugs and bowls as well as vases and candle holders, with glazes forming an important part of the finished pieces.
The shop also stocks work by other Irish makers. Jewellery and textiles broaden the choice beyond ceramics. Prints and smaller household gifts let a visit range across different crafts. Brookwood's own pottery and another maker's work remain distinct collections, so a question about production should be directed to the particular item rather than answered for the whole shop.
Classes offer another way to engage with the studio. Someone interested in working with clay can consult the published programme, while a shopper can concentrate on the finished tableware. For a useful comparison, look at the form and glaze of the pieces intended for everyday use alongside more decorative objects. The appeal lies in being able to encounter a working pottery practice and a wider design selection at the same address.
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Chupi's Dublin flagship is at the Powerscourt Centre, with an entrance on Clarendon Street. The jewellery collection includes engagement and wedding rings using natural or laboratory-grown diamonds. Consultations let customers discuss a ring in person, with video appointments offered as another route.
Best for Irish-made rings and jewellery consultations in Dublin
Chupi is an Irish jewelry brand founded in 2013 by Chupi Sweetman, a former fashion designer. Its flagship retail store is inside the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre on Clarendon Street in Dublin, a Georgian-era shopping arcade. The brand is built around recycled-gold jewelry and works with an in-house team of goldsmiths on site; Sweetman has described plans to expand the Dublin space with a second floor for private client appointments and additional workshop space for the goldsmithing team. Coverage of the brand frames it around Sweetman's own story and the goldsmithing operation being based in the Dublin shop rather than the jewelry being produced elsewhere and only sold there.
ESL’s in-house goldsmiths create custom jewellery, remodel unworn pieces and work with lab-grown diamonds. The redesign service is especially useful for reusing sentimental stones or metal in a wearable new form.
Best for Custom jewelry, redesigns of existing pieces, and lab-grown diamonds.
MoMuse, founded by designer Margaret O'Rourke and based at Powerscourt Townhouse Centre in Dublin, sells 18kt and 9kt gold, gold-filled, platinum and sterling silver rings, necklaces, earrings and bangles, with solid gold pieces hallmarked at Dublin Castle's Assay Office. Gold-filled collections are hand-finished in the Dublin studio, and the brand's collections include Night Sky, Serendipity and Abstract.
The Collective, at 24 Drury St in Dublin, sells rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and watches from handpicked designers, with a fine-jewellery line made from recycled gold with ethically sourced gemstones and diamonds alongside gold-plated brass and sterling silver pieces. The shop also offers bespoke engagement rings, engraving and fingerprint jewellery.
Claddagh Design is a County Cork jewellery business run by goldsmith Eileen Moylan, making Claddagh rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings in recycled silver and gold, hallmarked by the Irish Assay Office at Dublin Castle. Moylan is a member of the Design Crafts Council.
Best for Claddagh rings in recycled silver and gold
Claddagh Jewellers, at 25 Mainguard Street, Galway, makes handcrafted gold Claddagh rings and Celtic braid bracelets in Galway, working in gold, sterling silver, platinum and gemstones.
Best for Handcrafted claddagh rings and celtic jewellery
This family-run shop in Killarney designs and sources Celtic jewellery, including Claddagh rings and birthstone pieces, largely from local Irish artisans. Most stock is handcrafted in Killarney itself rather than bought in as ready-made inventory from a wholesaler.
Best for Claddagh rings and handcrafted Celtic jewellery
Killarney Celtic Jewelry is a family run shop at 24 Main Street in Killarney, County Kerry, in the south of Ireland. The premises have housed a jeweller for over 120 years. The shop is now run by Rory Giles, a Kerryman with over 25 years in the trade in Killarney and on the Aran Islands. The shop sources and designs traditional Celtic jewellery from mostly local artists. All of the jewellery is made in Ireland. Claddagh rings and Celtic knot pieces come in sterling silver and gold, with birthstone versions of the Claddagh in both rings and earrings. Connemara marble, a stone found only in Ireland, is set in silver for pendants that are hand crafted in Killarney itself. Pewter barrettes and bronze pieces round out the cases. Alongside the traditional work sits the Ring of Kerry collection, a modern line created for the shop by local craftsman Paul Kelly. Its pendant is worked in sterling silver with a small band of 18ct gold. A diamond and an emerald are both set in 18ct gold. The designs take their inspiration from local landscapes and legends, and the shop describes each purchase as a piece of Killarney tradition carried home.
Designer Alice runs this independent studio from the Kinsale coastline, taking inspiration from the local shore for a line of contemporary Irish jewellery. The studio also takes on custom commissions alongside its ready-made pieces.
Best for Contemporary Irish jewellery inspired by the Kinsale coast
Jeweller Brian de Staic is known for Ogham jewellery that spells names and words in the early Irish alphabet, hand-finished at the Dingle workshop. The Green Street shop carries Celtic-inspired gold and silver made in Kerry.
Jim's handcrafted jewellery shop opened in Kinsale within the last few years, working in gold and silver at a range of price points. The business combines an in-store counter offering same-day pickup with online sales to customers abroad.
Best for Handcrafted gold and silver jewellery, custom commissions
Stephen Faller opened his Galway jewellers in 1879, and the shop on Williamsgate Street has made Claddagh and Celtic rings ever since. In 1963 the family presented Claddagh rings to John and Jacqueline Kennedy during their visit to Ireland.
The Green Dot, at 42 Pearse St in a 200-year-old converted pub in Clonakilty, West Cork, stocks work from more than 70 Irish makers spanning gifts, homeware, pottery, jewellery, scarves and eco-toys, plus pieces designed in its own craft studio. It won the Local Retailer award at the Irish Made Awards 2024 and was named among the Irish Times' top 100 retailers for 2022-2024.
Self-taught designer KellyMarie McElligott makes sterling silver and wirework jewellery from her Green Street studio, including pieces set with locally gathered tusk shells. She opened the Dingle shop in 2019 and packs her handmade originals in linen pouches.
Best for Sterling silver wirework jewellery set with locally gathered tusk shells
This family-run jewellery and antiques business began at a castle above the Blackwater river in north County Cork before relocating to Kinsale. Its bench staff include GIA-trained gemologists and setters trained at houses such as Boodles and Graff, and the shop takes on bespoke ring commissions.
Best for Bespoke fine jewellery and antique pieces
The Gallery, in a stone building at Figart, Dunfanaghy that was built in the 1840s as the Fever Hospital for Dunfanaghy Workhouse and later a national school, opened in 1968 under artist Frank Egginton and has since been run by his daughter Moira and son-in-law Alan Harley. It sells arts, crafts, antiques and jewellery.
Weir & Sons has traded from the corner of Grafton Street and Wicklow Street since 1869, its curved windows a fixture of Dublin's main shopping street. The family-run house sells fine watches and jewellery and keeps departments for antique silver, china and glass.
Best for Fine jewellery, watches and antique silver
West Cork Crafts is an artist cooperative at 4 Bridge Street, Skibbereen, representing thirty one artists and crafters based in County Cork since becoming permanent in 2012. The shop sells art, photography, textiles, woodwork, ceramics, jewellery, greetings cards, fashion, candles, metalwork, cosmetics and stained or fused glass.
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