Castlerea Rose Festival
Running annually since 1988 and named Best Irish Festival 2024, this week-long community celebration fills Castlerea with open-air concerts, parades, markets, and the crowning of the Rose of Castlerea.
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"Castlecoote House, a fine 18th-century Palladian villa with elaborate plasterwork in a quiet Roscommon village, opens each Heritage Week for guided afternoon tours through the Section 482 scheme."
Castlecoote House Heritage Week Open Days
"King House, a magnificent early 18th-century mansion on Boyle's main street and once barracks to the Connaught Rangers, opens throughout Heritage Week with a full programme of tours and activities."
King House Heritage Week Open Days
"Strokestown Park, a Palladian mansion with one of Ireland's longest herbaceous borders and the Irish National Famine Museum, opens through Heritage Week in its planned Georgian estate village."
Strokestown Park Heritage Week Open Days
"Set in the heritage town of Strokestown, this established Roscommon show closes out the main show season as a venue for All-Ireland Beef Shorthorn Heifer Calf championship qualifiers alongside its traditional livestock and rural crafts programme."
Strokestown Agricultural Show
"A daily guided descent into Oweynagat, the mythological Cave of the Cats at Rathcroghan, Europe's largest unexcavated royal site and the original home of the Samhain festival."
Origins of Samhain, Oweynagat Cave Tour
"Families follow storytelling guides through the woodland of Strokestown Park to uncover the folklore of Oíche Shamhna, with costume-encouraged Samhain games and craft making woven through the estate grounds."
Strokestown Park Samhain Trail
"Marking its 10th anniversary in 2026, this family-friendly Achill village festival celebrates the patronal feast of St Dymphna with music, arts, sports, and bingo across the island over two weeks."
Féile Chill Damhnait
"A week-long community celebration in south Leitrim now in its 60th year, famous for free nightly open-air concerts on the main street alongside water sports, funfairs and children's events."
Ballinamore Family Festival
"A week-long community festival in the remote Erris peninsula featuring Heritage Day, Lá an Logha (Fair Day) and live entertainment against the Wild Atlantic Way backdrop."
Belmullet Festival
"Europe's oldest and largest horse fair, now in its 303rd year, filling Ballinasloe's Fair Green for eight days with horse and pony trading, street entertainment, a vintage parade, fireworks, and the deep traditions of the Irish Travelling community."
Ballinasloe International October Fair and Festival
"One of Europe's oldest and largest horse fairs, tracing roots to 1722, where hundreds of dealers buy and sell Irish Draught and Connemara horses by handshake on the historic Fair Green, surrounded by fireworks, tug-of-war, street parades, and a funfair."
Ballinasloe International Horse Fair and Festival
"A historic one-day livestock fair at the Connemara crossroads of Maam Cross, rooted in the tradition of local farmers trading cattle, sheep, and Connemara ponies to supplement a living from the rocky western landscape."
Maam Cross Fair (An Aonach Mór)