We don’t usually promote shops, but this is a great place to stop at where you can browse and enjoy a timeless icon of Irish craftwork. All of the items are handknitted using traditional patterns. The small Island community of Inis Mor began this craft and continues the practice to this day. For many centuries the Islanders who worked the land knitted the famous banín sweaters and developed stitches inspired by life on the Islands (including the Irish Moss stitch based on the Carrageen moss found on the cliffs of the island). By the 19th Century the craftwork was well established on the Islands as a source of income and the British Government intervened to look after the welfare of the Islanders and establish knitting as a commercially viable industry.