An Garraí Glas

An Garraí Glas Gno Úr -glasrai baile do mhuintir na h-aite agus do chuairteoirí. This is the FB page for an Rinne dár freastal ar phortaigh agus ar farraige.

GAEILGE Ta muid ag fás glasrai ar an talamh seo mar a rinne ar ndaoine romhainn ó thainig clann Maidhc an Ghabha, Choistealbhach, as an Lochán Beag in Indreabhan siar chomh fada leis Na Creagain ós cionn céad bilan o shin. Ag gabhnaíócht a bhí na fir ins an gclann agus taréis do dhuine acu go leor dhá shaol a chaith i Meireaca shocrá sé ar cheartá a oscailt anseo. Mar sin ní shé seo an chéad uair

siopa a bheith san ngarraí sin amuigh. Chomh maith leis sin chuir na daoine seo fatai (agus a lan eile) in san Earrach. Ach rinne chuile dhuine sa gceantar seo an rud ceanna go dtí blianta beag anuas. Feicfar dhomsa gur údar bród é sin. Tá gar do acra talún cuireadh againne i mbliana(2016). Cé nach bhfuil ceird an nghabha, an sli maireachtail a bhi sa gclan agus a bhí ag Johnny Choil Mhaidhc fhéin forleathan sa lá atá inniu ann tá ceird an gharradoir ag dul o neart go neart. ENGLISH My grandfather, Coil Mhaidhc, must have loved Connemara because although having gone across to America as a young man and worked as a blacksmith for over twenty years there he returned to Ireland and raised a family here. He came from a long line of Blacksmiths. My father claimed that in 1912 Coil Mhaidhc contracted lead poisoning in New York and woke up in a hospital bed with the man in the next bed having come off the Titanic. Well thats the story anyway. But my father had a lot of those. What we do know however was that they loved the land here and from a young age myself and my brothers were made aware of our responsibility to look after it. Well I frittered around in different corners of the world myself for a few years before the principles he had laid down to us in our youth made any sense. In 2013 An Garraí Glas started as little more then longing to repair a few stone walls and sow potatoes for the first time since the 1990s. In 2016 we had a name for what was happening and we set ourselves up as producers of Organic Vegetables. Doing it for a living allows for more time in the Garden you understand! The land here is Pristine and our Vegetables are some of the healthiest you can get. They are also some of the freshest. As far as I know no farmer in the country harvests almost the entirety of the produce he will sell on the day that he sells it. But that is what we do here. Our veg comes out of the ground and is set out in front of you, the customer, to buy. And its all straight-forward. We are following the seasons and our one acre plot is mostly made up of the staple vegetables that our grandparents consumed. The wooden shop, road-side, is open from June until November but you can see us hand-weeding our traditional lazy beds and spreading out seaweed and animal manure anytime of the year. A place like this takes a hell of a lot of hard work to maintain. But the people that went before us were right. It is all worth it.
-Aonghus Johnny Choil Mhaidhc Ó Coistealbha

I love this.
16/03/2026

I love this.

Ok it's 2026 you have 506 things to do right now and la da da da da. However tá an Domhan Mór cinéal; not a nice place a...
15/03/2026

Ok it's 2026 you have 506 things to do right now and la da da da da. However tá an Domhan Mór cinéal; not a nice place at the moment. So ceard faoi; if you do a deep-dive 4 day vegetable growing course called 'Slí Beatha' over four weekends this May (because it is only a little blip what is happening around us and the world will right itself shortly after) What will be the result? You will have clocked four amazing days in Conamara immersed in a subject that has interested you for a while, in stunning surroundings, in great company, eating great food and you will leave knowing how to have the best veggies on the street, this summer and every summer. Then you can choose how much things you have to do this summer and every summer outside of growing vegetables and that will dictate how good your garden is. Now on the other hand If the 'zombies' do come well that investment paid off did'nt it. Lets do a wall building course next folks.. In all seriousness; this is a great course follow the link in the bio..

Tà Siopa Beag an Gharraí Glas oscailte anois deich mbliana. Muid ag iarraidh ceiliúradh a dhèanamh agus mar a tharlíonn ...
15/03/2026

Tà Siopa Beag an Gharraí Glas oscailte anois deich mbliana. Muid ag iarraidh ceiliúradh a dhèanamh agus mar a tharlíonn sè tá na tolláin làn. CHUILE MHALÁ SALÈID, SPIONÁISTE, CÁL €2.00, sin an mèid : Dhá euro. Sin è a bhí againn oraibh i 2016. Tabhair libh a bhfuil uaibh agus báin sás as lá Padraic san mbaile le bhur gclann agus le glasraí an gharraí glas nó a bhfuil againn an t-ám seo do bhlian ar chuma ar bith. We will be opening the shop for two days only, closing it again until April after so that we can take a chance to celebrate 10 years serving the community and what better way to do it then revert to 2016 prices. We have the crops in the tunnels don’t worry about that; we can afford to do it. There is enough costs on all of us in this spring of 2026 so let us help you. You have helped us for years. 10 years now and no more so then last spring when we lost our tunnels✊🏻 So call by, its two days only and bring home the green for saint Patrick Day☘️🌱

Anois!! Go into comments for more. Sè seo tabhachtach
15/03/2026

Anois!! Go into comments for more. Sè seo tabhachtach

Beagann cáinte amuigh at oilean. Gaeilge amháin a bheidhs sê seo anois
10/03/2026

Beagann cáinte amuigh at oilean. Gaeilge amháin a bheidhs sê seo anois

West of Ireland veg growing course might suit some folk! Good price too!
08/03/2026

West of Ireland veg growing course might suit some folk! Good price too!

06/03/2026

Deireadh nó Tús?

06/03/2026

This is the four day programme for Slí Beatha. It was meant to start today at . We did not make the ticket sales to push ahead-any of us. Myself and Charles are talking of condensing it into two one day courses on a Saturday and a Sunday in mid April. And we probably will. Really though it needs a thorough four day to be all it can be and allow students to become all that they can become in terms of vegetable growers. If anything on this sunny day in early March and the world in a state of s**t I know we need for Slí Beatha to go ahead. So bare with us agus beidh muid ar ann dhóibh💪🥕🥦🥔🍅🫜👨🏻‍🌾

Hup
04/03/2026

Hup

i mBeal Feiriste. Bhí ag obair i gcoirneal eile don seomra mór seo agus fuair sean o mainnín grèim orainn. Bí an catha...
11/11/2025

i mBeal Feiriste. Bhí ag obair i gcoirneal eile don seomra mór seo agus fuair sean o mainnín grèim orainn. Bí an cathair feckin daor ach ba fhiú è chuile secoind a chaith muid thuas ann 💚

29/10/2025

Dia duit, we are Flo, Louis and Josiah – three siblings who run the farm here in Corrandrum, between Claregalway and Tuam just 20 minutes North of Galway city.

Fréamh Farm came to fruition in early 2024 when the opportunity to lease this land fell in to our laps. We’ve all been working on various organic farms for the last 3-5 years, so it felt like the right time to have a go at doing it for ourselves.

We’re a small farm of 1.5 acres. We use regenerative growing methods that nurture biodiversity and soil health. We grow entirely without the use of chemicals and we implement minimal tillage methods that don’t disturb important microbial and mycorrhizal networks within the soil.

Eating food that’s free of chemicals, that’s been grown locally, that is fresh and delicious, that isn’t destructive, but regenerative to the natural environment – that’s the way we want to live and that’s the produce that we want to provide.

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Na Creagain, Inverin
Galway
H91D26R

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Monday 9am - 7:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 7:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 7:30pm
Thursday 9am - 7:30pm
Friday 9am - 7:30pm
Saturday 9am - 7:30pm
Sunday 9am - 7:30pm

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083 807 1113

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