The Ketch Ilen Returned Safely to Limerick Ahead of Yesterday’s Storm
4th May 2021
The Shared Shannon Estuary - the Trading Ketch Ilen approaching Limerick upriver as a Women s Four from St Michael’s Rowing Club heads downstream in Sunday morning’s good weather
Credit: Deirdre Power
Most people’s memories of the already pandemic-constricted Bank Holiday Weekend will be of Monday s wet and windy storm. But the training crew on the restored Conor O’Brienketch Ilen of Limerick have only pleasant memories, as a fair weather passage around Ireland s magnificent southwestern seaboard from Winter Quarters in Kinsale saw them well ahead of the bad weather when they came into port at lunchtime Sunday, having rested until the tide made fair with the by-now traditional stopover at Carrigaholt.