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Crafts and coffee in Co Meath
30.07.2010
Kathleen O’Reilly, owner of the Kraft Kaffee in Oldcastle, Co Meath, has noticed a pick-up in tourist business this year as she prepares to hold an Irish tweed workshop for National Heritage Week.
A textile artist herself, O’Reilly always wanted to own a shop with crafts and the opportunity came up in 2004. She and her husband bought the premises themselves with no funding or support.
It stocks crafts from all over Ireland such as slate art, pottery, woodcraft, jewellery and paintings, as well as hand made cards and ceramics. O’Reilly started to sell small vintage items in 2008, which she says is going very well since.
Kraft Kaffee has a coffee and bagel bar, serving organic coffee and homemade snacks, sourced locally. It is located near the Loughcrew megalithic tombs, which brings in passing tourist trade.
“The business is ticking over nicely. It slowed up last year, but is picking up this year. During National Heritage Week we’re holding a workshop demonstrating the age-old tradition of tweed pictures and will put a mini museum of crafts of old upstairs for the month of September,” O’Reilly says.
Photo: An example of the crafts on offer at the Kraft Kaffee
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