Johnston House

25/12/2025

A very merry christmas to all from kinvara!

26/04/2025

15/12/2024

Short little promo!

In a small Irish village called Kinvara on Galway Bay, Richard & Crissy Johnston welcome guests to their historic retreat center, which has been in Richard's...

10/05/2024

What a wonderful, Community filled, weekend! Thank you Fleadh na gCuach Committee for a superb festival!

26/03/2024

The summer is booking up!

22/03/2024

*LOOKING FOR 2024 FESTIVAL SPONSORS!*

As the May Bank Holiday is quickly approaching, we're delighted to be in the midst of planning the 30th Fleadh na gCuach! But like many nonprofit, volunteer organisations, we are looking for any businesses or persons who would like to sponsor the festival. We are looking for a main sponsor, who will appear on the poster as well as other advertising, and minor sponsors, who will all be advertised with us and recieve a signed 30th Anniversary Cuckoo Poster.

This festival can not run without support and help from the Kinvara Community, and we appreciate any help you can provide. If you'd like to make a donation towards the festival, you can do so at the Kinvara Credit Union. If you'd like to be a sponsor, please contact us directly.

As its the 30th Anniversary of the festival, we have extra family friendly activities, a full line up of amazing musicians throughout the weekend, and much more planned, but we need the support from all of you! Thank you so much, and watch this space, as we'll be launching the poster very soon!

05/01/2024

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Thinking of a group trip to galway? Look no further than Johnston House in Kinvara! We sleep 10 guests comfortably. Right in the center of kinvara, with pubs, shops, restaurants and cafes only meters from the front door!

Johnston House: Historic Village Retreat

21/07/2023

LAUNCH OF THE 2023 CRUINNIU NA MBAD POSTER!!!!

The artwork for this year’s Cruinniu na mBad poster is brought to us by abstract artist, Debbie Browne. In April of this past year, Debbie exhibited her “Leave Your Mark” show. This local, community-oriented project was created and directed by Debbie with the help of over 60 friends and family. What started as an 8 ft. by 5 ft. piece of blank white paper evolved into an exciting collection of scribbles, doodles and marks made by Debbie’s friends and family, with Debbie intermittently adding her own paint in between. Eventually the large piece was cut into six individual pieces and framed. The artwork on the Cruinniu na mBad poster is one of those six individual pieces. Although not as contemporary as the poster artwork in the past, the Cruinniu na mBad Committee believe that Debbie’s project promotes the importance of our community in Kinvara, and is a mesmerisingly beautiful depiction of a boat out at sea.
Debbie has been a member of Kinvara’s community for over 30 years. Her husband, Declan Connolly, and herself were avid sailors for decades, and great supporters of the Cruinniu na mBad. Debbie was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) in October of 2021. MSA is a rare, incurable, progressive neurological disorder that affects the body’s movement, balance, speech and swallow, and autonomic functions, including blood pressure, temperature, digestive, cardio and respiratory control. Debbie’s diagnosis was one of the many things that sparked the “Leave Your Mark” project. It is an exploration of community, care and friendship, much like the Cruinniu na mBad itself.
If you’d like to learn more about the “Leave Your Mark” project, and view more of Debbie’s artwork, please visit her website, debbiebrowne.art. There will be 100 copies of the poster signed by Debbie available to purchase over the Cruinniu na mBad weekend. Unsigned posters and previous year's festival posters are available to purchase in Eurospar Kinvara. From all of us in the Cruinniu na mBad Committee, thank you Debbie, for allowing us to use this exceptional piece of artwork, and for inspiring a new and colourful way to see the world.