Garristown Festival
One of North County Dublin's longest-running village festivals, established in 1970, packing a full three-day programme of live music headlined by the Whistlin' Donkeys, trad sessions, a pet show, vintage vehicle displays, and community fundraisers into the heart of a small rural village.
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"The Old Glebe in Newcastle, a rare surviving Georgian glebe house in the Dublin commuter belt, opens daily through Heritage Week giving rare access to a historic rural clergy dwelling."
The Old Glebe Heritage Week Open Days
"A harvest celebration weekend set among Skerries' iconic working windmills and watermill, blending live music, family attractions, and the seasonal heritage of grain milling during National Heritage Week."
Skerries Mills Harvest Time Festival
"A month-long October festival at the Seamus Ennis Arts Centre in The Naul that taps into Samhain craft and myth through archaeology workshops, mask-making, storytelling, a Harvest Food Fair, and Irish whiskey tastings."
Soul of Samhain
"Held across three December weekends at the OPW's Farmleigh Estate in Phoenix Park, this market combines festive food and craft stalls with horse-and-carriage rides, puppet shows, and Victorian dress-up against twinkling parkland grounds."
Farmleigh Estate Christmas Market
"An annual August Bank Holiday fixture on Rush's North Beach combining world-class aerobatics over the Irish Sea with artisan food markets, heritage boat displays, and live music in a free, community-driven coastal celebration."
Rush Harbour Festival and Fingal Air Show
"An annual village fete at Slane Castle combining visits to the holy well, harp recitals, falconry, vintage cars, pony and trap rides and a duck derby in the historic estate grounds."
Lady Well Fete
"A weekend market-square fair in Tinahely featuring a live sheep run, sheep shearing demonstrations, wool craft stalls and local food, celebrating the county's pastoral heritage."
All Things Woolly at Tinahely
"In the award-winning Tidy Towns village of Moynalty, this beloved annual gathering revives the pre-mechanisation harvest with working steam engines, horse-drawn farm machinery, old-time threshing, butter making, and cooking on open fires."
Moynalty Steam Threshing Festival
"A country heritage festival near Trim celebrating old-world rural skills including haymaking, threshing and butter making, keeping traditional Irish farming customs alive."
Scurlogstown Olympiad
"A community week of street music, markets and entertainment in Mullingar centred on the quirky annual bachelor competition judged by celebrity panels."
Westmeath Bachelor Festival
"A nine-day village celebration in Georgian Durrow where hundreds of creative scarecrows occupy every nook and cranny, culminating in the All-Ireland Scarecrow Championship with a prize fund of EUR3,000."
Durrow Scarecrow Festival