Portaferry Gala
A week of galas, the famous Galway hooker boat races and street fun where Strangford Lough meets the sea.
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"The elegant Georgian village of Hillsborough in County Down hosts its oyster festival each August, where Carlingford and Strangford Lough oysters are opened in competition for a world title and served with champagne in the village square while chef demonstrations and live music fill the streets of one of Northern Ireland's prettiest villages."
Hillsborough International Oyster Festival
"The elegant village of Hillsborough, built around a Georgian church and an eighteenth-century castle in County Down, hosts its Christmas market each December bringing together Northern Irish craft producers and food stalls in one of the most architecturally composed village settings on the island."
Hillsborough Christmas Market
"81 years of County Down agriculture at Glenbrook Farm, where livestock classes run from poultry to pedigree cattle alongside craft stalls in a village show that has never forgotten why it started."
Saintfield Show
"A community agricultural show in one of County Down's most picturesque castle villages on Strangford Lough, with livestock, home industries and the particular pleasure of a small show done properly."
Killyleagh Show
"A celebration of the prized Comber Earlies potato, with a food village in this County Down market town."
Comber Earlies Food Festival
"A traditional one-day agricultural show in the Mourne foothills with livestock, horses and home industries."
Castlewellan Show
"Ireland's oldest fair fills a Causeway Coast town for two late August days of horse trading and market stalls, and two things you eat nowhere else, dulse seaweed and the hard toffee called yellowman."
Ould Lammas Fair
"A horse fair and street festival dating to a 17th century charter, the last surviving May fair in Ireland."
Ballyclare May Fair
"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."
Lady of the Lake Festival
"For nine days every August this Wharfedale village fills its gardens, walls and doorways with handmade scarecrows, and half the fun is the treasure hunt of finding them all."
Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The biggest steam engine rally in Cornwall brings around 70 full-size engines to Stithians Showground for three August days of steam trailer rides, threshing, wood sawing, stone crushing and a Saturday evening sheaf-pitching competition."
West of England Steam Engine Society Rally
"Suffolk's award-winning seaside carnival fills the shingle beach town of Aldeburgh across a summer Bank Holiday weekend, with a procession, 10K Mini Marathon, community events and the particular magic of carnival lights on the North Sea."
Aldeburgh Carnival