The Oat Gallery

18/09/2025

Want tho wish Leah the very best of luck 🤞 tomorrow she will now be offering new beauty treatments and aesthetics here in the Salon 😍💖💉

26/04/2025

🌀 The Turoe Stone — A Masterpiece in Stone, Still Holding Its Secrets

In a quiet corner of Co. Galway stands one of Ireland’s most remarkable carved stones — the Turoe Stone. Its swirling, continuous patterns echo the La Tène artistic style found across Iron Age Europe, yet its meaning remains uncertain.

Believed to date from around 100 BCE to 100 CE, this granite stone was likely a marker of status or local identity — though whether it served a ritual, symbolic, or decorative purpose, no one can say for sure.

Originally located on a hill near a ringfort, it was moved in the 1850s, and with it, much of its context was lost. But its craftsmanship endures — a reminder of a time when art, myth, and land were deeply intertwined.



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26/04/2025

26/04/2025

📣 📢 **Announcement**📣 📢

🪕 🎻 We're absolutely thrilled to announce the full line-up for Galway Folk Festival 2025, including our line-up of free shows for 🎶 ✨

For more info head on over to 👉 bit.ly/GalwayFolkFest25

This year is our biggest festival to date and we're delighted to expand the free weekend family friendly daytime events - we've got something for everyone from pop up shows to food vendors and stalls from our friends at the Tiny Traders Village!

Cuppa Tea TV returns with The Market Stage, while Culture Vultures, hosted by Tony Clayton-Lea, will feature engaging conversations with special guests. The Youth in Music stage will showcase the rising stars of folk, while the brand new The Little Room of Folk and Westend Sessions offer intimate performances and vibrant sessions!

The full line-up includes...

Lloyd Cole – Fionn Regan – The Scratch – KÍLA – Martha Wainwright – Project Smok – Seanchoíche – Daoirí Farrell – Seán Keane – Hat Fitz & Cara – The Half Room - BackWest – Banshee – Billow Wood – BRÍDÍN – Briars – Casii Stephan – CLADA – Colin Tierney – Colm Gavin – Dave Clancy – David Hope – The Davies Brothers – Deray Barboros – Domhan – Don Stiffe – Double Booked – Eli Waltz – Eve Clague – Evie – Feedback – First Class & Coach – Frankie Archer – Hubert Murray – J Smith – June Carousel – Korina Zambrano – Laura Duff – Laura Jo – Laytha – Liam Carroll & Co – Loes and the Celtic Link – Mná – Myles Gaffney – Neart – NXNW – Robert John Hope – Roswell – Saije – Sarah Buckley – Sarah Croker – Seo Linn Trio – Shillelagh Law – Some One's Sons – Stephen O'Dowd – Strings & Things – Sweet Jayne – Tadhg Williams – Teague and Joyce – The Fógues – The Hidden Maple – Three Rod Wale – Tom Portman – Ultan Conlon – Will Softly – Whiskey Mash – Yonder Boys

31/08/2023

Great Roger Casement quote about preserving the rememberance of lost liberty being one of the noblest causes there is.

28/07/2020

Anyone would left in pictures to be framed at THE OAT GALLERY TOMORROW MORNING IS THE LAST CHANCE TO COLLECT THEM..

07/07/2020

LAST FEW DAYS OF OUR CLOSING DOWN SALE..

02/07/2020

SOME VISITORS OVER THE YEARS ..

27/06/2020

Hi everyone, we are extended the Closing Down SALE until Thursday 9th July. Anybody that has Picture Framing to collect please do so before that date.. Micheál..

18/06/2020

CLOSING DOWN SALE!! This sale will continue till the 29th of June. Stay safe everyone!