2 Best Places to Shop in County Clare, Galway, and the Aran Islands, Ireland

This is where Ennis's traditional musicians stock up on sheet music, specialist books, and musical instruments.

A display case of the craft of Irish luthiers, this lovely old-world shop stocks acoustic stringed instruments and some wind instruments, including Irish handmade uilleann pipes, Irish bouzoukis and, more tempting for the traveler, pocket-size tin whistles.