Currachs Past
Currachs Past
These ancient crafts were traditionally used for fishing on the river Boyne, but due to the government’s strict regulations on netting, which were introduced back in the 1960s, this whole tradition died away as the local men no longer had a use for them. The Boyne Currach is woven in a method that allows a multiple of hands to be involved all at once and the making of its leathern cover has been done as a community gathering, using flint tools, water, oak bark and fat.
Local people
In the early 20th century, the Boyne Currach gained international notoriety when in 1913, Albert Kahn, a millionaire French banker sent two photographers to photograph the Boyne Currach on Lady Cunningham’s estate at Slane. This was part of an ambitious project to create a worldwide collection of colour photographs of local people.
