Lady of the Lake Festival
Irvinestown's beloved 46-year tradition fills 10 July days with donkey derbies, truck convoys, street entertainment and open-air dances rooted in the folklore of Lower Lough Erne.
A solid Plantation-era market town with a wide main street, a striking Gothic castle on its doorstep, and enough pubs and a good tearoom to make a stopping-point worthwhile, but not a destination in its own right.
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