Sweatshirt – Lahinch

This is the name of the town that our shop has been in since 1979. Leacht Ui Chonchuir (pronounced ‘locked ee cr hoor’)  translates from Irish as tomb-stone / resting place of O’Connor. The O’Connors laid claim to this land in the 1300’s. So the story goes, In 1471 an O’Connor chieftain was murdered in his castle (what is now called Dough Castle near Liscannor Bridge) by his nephews and was buried at the end of what is now the main street of Lahinch. This original design by Mike O’Connor plays on the image of the Aran Island’s fishermen carrying their currach boats.  Lahinch is now mostly a ‘surfer’ town, The Wild Atlantic Way has provided many with a livelihood, but the sea and our coastlines itself will (hopefully) always remain wild and untamed, same could be said about a lot of locals!