O'Carolan Harp Festival & Summer School
Held each August Bank Holiday week in the heritage village where Turlough O'Carolan is buried, this internationally acclaimed festival weaves harp competitions, summer school tuition, céilís, and the legendary Door Dancing Competition into eight days of living Irish tradition.
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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
"The Coleman Traditional Irish Music Centre in tiny Gurteen village hosts a summer-long weekly céilí series celebrating the South Sligo style of music in the heartland that produced the legendary Michael Coleman."
Coleman Irish Music Centre Summer Céilís
"Athenry's Marian holy well hosts a vibrant annual pilgrimage on Lady's Day with open-air Mass, traditional rounds, and candles, keeping alive a pattern that has historically drawn emigrants home each August."
Our Lady's Well Pattern, Athenry
"A celebratory gathering in Ballyhaunis blending bus heritage tours by day with a special community night, reviving the Tóstal festival tradition in the Irish midlands west."
Tóstal Bhreac-Cluana
"A deeply local Heritage Week event in the remote Erris Gaeltacht village of Carrowteige, replaying rare community voice recordings from the early 1990s to preserve the living oral heritage of Dún Chaocháin."
Voices of Dún Chaocháin: Recordings from the Early 1990s
"A heartfelt island tribute to singer and musician Desmond O'Halloran, bringing family, friends, and admirers together on Inishbofin for music sessions and cultural celebration honouring a cherished local performer."
Desmond O'Halloran Music Weekend
"A three-day East Galway traditional music festival honouring the legacy of musician Larry Reynolds, with sessions, workshops, storytelling, and céilí firmly rooted in the local community."
Féile Cheoil Larry Reynolds