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Hello,
Who wants to come and hack through the beautiful Irish Landscape with me?
And ride up to 3 horses a day . You will also lunge them and be responsible for keeping the horses and tack clean. You will have to skip out on 3 evenings of the week (or turn the horses out over night) and skip them out in the mornings and evenings at the weekend you'll have 2 days a week off.
And you can ride 5 days a week.
We are looking for an experienced and adaptable horse rider to stay for at least 3 month, please don't apply if you are not an experienced rider or cannot stay that long.
You also need to walk the dogs when I am away working in Dublin and my daughter is in school. I stay in Dublin 2 nights a week and she stays in her school 2 nights a week.
I work from home for 4 days a week, so we could ride together then. We have a lot of fields to hack across, we have gallops and also a riding arena. The dogs accompany us when we go riding.
I can teach you when we ride together and our International dressage and showing instructors comes one weekend a month to teach us all.
You need to be mature, preferably 22 years old or older, someone who can work independently, understands that I also need time for my own work and need some private time with my daughter and that I cannot mind you as if you were a child. I need a grown up who enjoys helping and is not personally hurt when I ask them to things in a certain way.
Please only apply if you are a good rider, who has a lot of riding experience. We have stallions and young horses here, so please don't apply if you cannot ride to intermediate level. Look at our profile pictures to get an idea of the level of riding we require.
I will ask you to send a video of your riding skills, before you come- so I know that it is safe for you to ride our horses and ponies and it is also not good for my well schooled horses to be ridden by someone who is not an adequate rider.
I am happy to teach you, while riding with you. Depending on your riding skills- we will pay you €100 per week, if you are an EU citizen. You will have to get a tax nmb, which I will help you with. But you will not have to pay tax, as the earnings are not big enough for that. this money of course is on top of food.
You eat with us on 5 evenings a week. One two evenings we require family time. And you can cook for yourself in your own kitchen, shared with another workaway.You will make your own breakfast and lunch there as well.
You have your own spacious double bedroom, bathroom and living room with a kitchen area as well. The whole house is heated with wood-burning stoves, so you will have to keep the stove in your living room going by refilling logs twice a day.
You don't have to have perfect English, but it needs to be good enough to understand us, as it can become dangerous if you don't understand what people say when you are working around farm animals.
Minimum stay is 3 month, shorter stays just are not long enough to be a part of our family and farm.
We have a farm with ponies, dogs, ducks, cattle, chicken and goats but I am a socially engaged environmental artist and do projects with communities through which I encourage them to be part of shaping their own environment through actively engaging with it. I also teach environmental and socially engaged art and landscape architecture at 3 different universities in Dublin.
When I am at home we will eat together most nights , you can come to horse and other events with us, but you will have time to spend by yourself. It is important to me to have some time for myself and with my daughter. So you need to respect that too and give me space when I am sitting in my work- room or playing with my daughter. Equally, I will respect your private zone.
The farm is in the centre of Ireland, in Westmeath: 90km from Dublin in beautiful rolling countryside.
So please only contact me if you are a good flatwork rider who has ridden 3 year old horses before and you are a mature independent person over the age of 22.
Driving licence is not a requirement We will let you borrow our car twice a week for going to town for shopping etcetera... if you are over 26. Otherwise the car insurance does not allow for that.
25 h per week
Monday, Tuesday & Friday:
12.00 get horses in from the field,
prepare them for riding, ride or lunge 3-4 horses with me
16.00- 17.00: evening skip out and feed
Saturday & Sunday:
8.00-10.00: Muck out, feed and turn horses out to the field
13.00- 17.00 get horses in from the field,
prepare them for riding, ride or lunge 3-4 horses with me
17.00- 18.00: evening skip out and feed
Wednesday and Thursday:
off
We offer:
your own apartment with your own double bedroom, kitchen and bathroom and a living room with a wood burning stove.
We will eat supper together on 4 days when I am there and we love chatting and sharing experiences and discussing the day.
Minimum stay 3 month, longer possible- shorter sadly not
Looking forward to hearing from you, SophieTypes of help and learning opportunities
Animal CareUN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Irish Countryside, Irish horse skills and speaking English
We offer plenty opportunity to ride: Dressage, jumping and cross country jumping.
And you can improve your English while you are here.
It is a fantastic chance to live on an Irish organic horse stud. You can learn a lot about how horses behave as the animal they truly should be. They are brought up in herds on large fields. In the spring we ride out to see if a new foal has been born every day. Later on in the year, the stallions get turned out with the mares: A unique chance to understand how horses can live a horse life, as opposed to being brought up in a confined area.Projects involving children
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25 h per week
Monday, Tuesday & Friday:
12.00 get horses in from the field,
prepare them for riding, ride or lunge 3-4 horses with me
16.00- 17.00: evening skip out and feed
Saturday & Sunday:
8.00-10.00: Muck out, feed and turn horses out to the field
13.00- 17.00 get horses in from the field,
prepare them for riding, ride or lunge 3-4 horses with me
17.00- 18.00: evening skip out and feed
Wednesday and Thursday:
off
19.30- 21.00: cook and have supper with usLanguages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We are very interested in a German speaker to chat to my daughter or a French speaker to keep my French going.Accommodation
Own double bedroom, shared living room/ kitchen and bathroom with our
What else ...
This is a beautiful farm in very remote rural settings, 20 km from Mullingar or Athlone, 80 km from Dublin or Galway
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Our net is ok, I can do zoom lectures.
Can possibly accept pets
no
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (10)
We miss you- our daughter says she does not want to wear her flower shirt anymore- as it reminds her of Ida, who always told our daughter how much she liked that shirt.
Ida was an excellent helper around our farm, with the horses, chicken and sheep.
She is a very good patient rider- well able to bring on young horses and ponies!
Her… read more
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Such an amazing, cheerful, optimistic, natural, easy- going, super- efficient, - can-do-anything- Human!
the really challenging question is: what does she not excel at ?
hmmmm...actually EVERYTHING we asked her to do she did amazingly perfectly well...
Vanessa is super at:
- teaching children
- running a household
-… read more
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We miss you- our daughter says she does not want to wear her flower shirt anymore- as it reminds her of Ida, who always told our daughter how much she liked that shirt.
Ida was an excellent helper around our farm, with the horses, chicken and sheep.
She is a very good patient rider- well able to bring on young horses and ponies!
Her… read more
...badly
Such an amazing, cheerful, optimistic, natural, easy- going, super- efficient, - can-do-anything- Human!
the really challenging question is: what does she not excel at ?
hmmmm...actually EVERYTHING we asked her to do she did amazingly perfectly well...
Vanessa is super at:
- teaching children
- running a household
-… read more
She only left us 2 days ago and we so hope she will come back and visit some day SOON.
Julia is a very conscious, diligent and skilled person, who never forgets anything you ask her to do.
She is also very able to see and do work that needs to be done.
She is has a wonderful gentle calm and positive aura- always smiling... No… read more
Charlotte is a hard worker, reliable and conscious with a lot of energy- she would help us and then spend a lot of time diligently studying for her university too, admirable discipline!
Charlotte is also a very good rider excelling at flatwork as well as over poles. She rode many of our young horses and… read more
The area is lovely with plenty of places to go on ride and see the surrounding region.
All the work was horse-related, mostly cleaning up the stables/feeding in the morning and evening, and training/playing with the horses and riding in… read more
During the cold winter she reliably mucked out, fed and also rode our horses 5 days a week- always with a smile on her face. She came on a lot of cross country rides with us- teaching the young horses how to go cross country and jump fixed fences as well as poles. She has got great "stickability", balance and foresight-… read more
She is well able to carry responsibility. She… read more
If you like to work among horses in beautiful landscapes with wonderful people this place is made for you!
The accomodations are very nice and you've… read more
Kieran is just a perfect man, he is very very nice. Cecily is so funny and passionate by everything, so cute. Thanks Sophie for everything!
Friend of them are just super cool and chill.
We shared lunch, it is very good. I stayed there with… read more
Full of enthusiasm and professional workmanship? Evelyn is your woman
Expert around the yard and house ? Evelyn is your woman
She also brought on our young horses beautifully: handling, lunging and brushing them
Actually she is the one if you are looking to leave your place… read more
Die Farm ist in der Mitte von Irland sodass ich, mit anderen… read more