Cork-built Ilen, Ireland’s only surviving wooden cargo sailing boat, revives old trade

The Ilen, which was built in Baltimore in West Cork in 1926, is Ireland’s last wooden cargo vessel with a hold, and heir to a centuries-old trading tradition.

Ilen then travels up the Shannon estuary to Limerick on August 31 where locally produced Ishka water, Limerick beer and whiskey will be loaded for the journey to Kilronan in the Aran Islands on September 2.