Shifty Shamrocks

43 Duke Street · Athy · Est. 2020

Shifty Shamrocks.
Tattoo & Piercing.

Irish roots. Original tattooing.

A clean, established studio on Duke Street. Custom, fine line, traditional and Japanese work by award winning artists. Walk ins welcome.

Services & prices

Tattoo & piercing

Tattoo

Drawn for you

Custom, fine line, traditional, Japanese, cover ups and lettering.

  • ConsultationFree
  • Small tattoosfrom €80
  • Half day€350
  • Full day€550
  • Touch-upsFree

Every tattoo is priced on its own. Size, black and grey or colour, where it goes and how much detail it has all change the price. Your consultation is free, and you'll know the price before anything is booked.

Piercing

Ear, face & body

Prices include standard titanium jewellery.Gold and stone upgrades are extra.

  • EarSinglePair
  • Lobe€35€50
  • Helix, forward helix, conch, tragus, flat, faux rook€40
  • Rook, daith, snug, anti-tragus€50
  • Industrial€60
  • Face
  • Nostril€40
  • Septum, medusa€50
  • Eyebrow, labret, vertical labret€50€80
  • Body
  • Navel€50
  • Nipple€50€80

Lobes from age 7. Most others from 14 or 16 with a parent, and a few from 18.

How it works

Chat, draw, tattoo

Nothing goes on skin until the drawing is right. Piercings are simpler: walk in, pick your jewellery, and you are out in twenty minutes.

  1. Tell us the idea

    Book a free consultation or just call by. What you want, where it is going, roughly how big. Bring photos of anything you like the look of.

  2. We draw it up

    A custom piece is sketched after the chat and changed until it is yours. You see it before the stencil goes on.

  3. Sit, heal, come back

    Single use needles opened in front of you, written aftercare in your hand, and a message a week later to see how it settled.

Line work laid in on a leg, before any colour

On Instagram

@shiftyshamrocksstudio

Follow the studio
A traditional eagle on a thigh A black and grey peony on a forearm A nostril piercing being done A wolf and flowers across a shoulder Gold piercing jewellery on the tray A Japanese leg sleeve in progress

Reviews

What people say

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Aoife M.23 September 2026
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Sample review. Got my first piece done here and they took the time to go through placement and size before drawing anything. Really clean studio and the aftercare sheet made it easy.

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Conor R.19 September 2026
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Sample review. Walked in on a Sunday for a helix, in and out in twenty minutes with a proper run through of how to look after it. Jewellery choice was great too.

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Niamh K.12 September 2026
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Sample review. Cover up on an old piece I hated. They were honest about what would and would not work and the result is something I actually show people now.

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First tattoo

Never been tattooed before? Start with a chat

Twenty minutes, no money down, no pressure to book at the end of it. We go through placement, size, what it will actually cost and how much it will hurt.

Or ring the studio
Consultation Free Walk in, or pick a time that suits.
The Shifty Shamrocks neon shamrock

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Where we are

Find us on Duke Street

Walk ins are welcome.

The studio

Unit 1A, 43 Duke Street
Athy, Co. Kildare
R14 CF21

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Open

Tuesday to Sunday
10.00 to 5.00
Closed Monday