Ráca feamnaí, Feothanach.

Ráca feamnaí, Feothanach.

Seaweed gathering.

Kelp kiln, kelp drying on walls. Kelp and carrageen moss stacks (thatched). Traces of bleached carrageen moss visible also.

Gathering seaweed.

Kelp drying on walls. Traces of bleached carrageen moss visible also. Two-man currach in foreground.

kelp stacks and kelp kilns.

Gathering seaweed, Annagassan.

Seaweed rake.

Picking and bleaching carrigeen.

Gathering seaweed.

man using a seaweed rake/ráca feamainne, Inis Oírr.

seaweed rods at Streedagh.

seaweed rods at Streedagh.

different methods of storing and drying kelp Inishere; stones set upright in fissure as boundry marks.

Seaweed gathering - Quilty, Co. Clare

Kelp stacks and kelp kilns. Bodógaí agus áith ceilpe.

Ráca feamnaí, Feothanach.

Gathering seaweed.

“Out for carrageen picking"- harvesting carrageen seaweed.

"The May Fleece" - seaweed or wrack washed up on beach during heavy seas and high shores (surf) during May. "The sea cleans itself."

“The Kelp Gatherers", White Strand, Conamara; oil painting by Samuel Lover (1830) in National Folklore Collection.

Seaweed gathering.

Seaweed gathering.