Roundstone Musical Instruments

Connemara


At the village's southern edge, you can watch Malachy Kearns, Ireland's only full-time maker of traditional bodhráns, handcrafting goat-skin drums in his workshop. Other traditional Irish instruments are also for sale here, along with sheet music and recordings.


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