The Harbour, Howth, Dublin
Howth's harbour fish shop — buy the freshest catch or eat fish and chips on the pier. Watch the fishing boats unload while you eat.
Best for Watch the fishing boats unload
Watches of Ireland
7 stores · curated ORBIS register
Dublin sells watches from behind counters that also weigh antique silver, which tells you what kind of shop to expect. Weir & Sons is a Dublin jeweler dealing in fine jewellery, watches, antique silver. Dingle Crystal hand-cuts Irish crystal in a family workshop founded by master cutter Sean Daly in 1999. Jerpoint Glass has blown Irish glass by hand at its Stoneyford studio since 1979. The crystal makers belong on this plate for the same reason: a hand-cut rim is a timekeeper's discipline applied to glass. Buy the watch for the movement and the crystal for the rim, since each trade prices exactly that.
Visit official site ↗City centre, Dublin
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.
Best for Designer and bespoke jewellery
Visit official site ↗Green Street, Dingle
Master cutter Sean Daly founded this family workshop in 1999, hand-cutting deep-relief crystal glassware and gifts with patterns drawn from the Dingle landscape. Visitors can watch cutting at the Green Street premises in the Gaeltacht.
Best for Hand-cut Irish crystal
Visit official site ↗Stoneyford, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Jerpoint Glass has blown Irish glass by hand at its Stoneyford studio since 1979, shaping wine carafes, glasses, and one-off gallery pieces that come out of exhibitions and experimental work. Visitors can watch glassblowers at the furnace and buy directly from the studio, open daily except limited Sunday hours.
Best for Hand-blown Irish glassware
Visit official site ↗Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Larry Kinsella, a founding member of the Made in Kilkenny craftspeople's collective, has hand-poured candles at this riverside studio in Bennettsbridge since 1999, near the Nicholas Mosse pottery. The workshop produces pillar and scented candles alongside studio-only pieces like glow-globes and tortured-wax sculptures that visitors can watch being made.
Best for Handmade candles and wax art
Visit official site ↗Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Nicholas Mosse has thrown and hand-sponge-decorated earthenware tableware at a former flour mill on the River Nore in Bennettsbridge since the 1970s, using motifs like the running fox and shamrock drawn from the Irish countryside. The mill site still houses the pottery, a Mill Café, and a shop where visitors can watch pieces being made.
Best for Hand-sponged Irish earthenware tableware
Visit official site ↗Weir & Sons
Heritage HouseGrafton Street
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
Visit official site ↗Curated ORBIS register · official links shown where recorded