Skerries Mills Harvest Time Festival
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.
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"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."
Garristown Festival
"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 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
"Children dig alongside real archaeologists from the School of Irish Archaeology in a hands-on excavation at one of Ireland's most iconic early-Christian monastic sites."
Big Dig at Glendalough
"Guided tours of Delgany's early Christian burial ground explain historic 18th and 19th century inscriptions and artistic motifs, with self-guided heritage trail leaflets also available."
Delgany Early Christian Graveyard Heritage Tours
"A guided village walk through Newcastle exploring local landmarks, lore and the stories that shaped this quiet Wicklow coastal community."
Heritage Walk of Newcastle Village
"A practical Heritage Week talk at Carnew Library on the traditional skill of wild food foraging in the south Wicklow countryside."
Food Foraging Talk at Carnew Library
"A rare chance to step inside the restored six-storey Wicklow Head Lighthouse, perched above the Irish Sea and managed by Irish Landmark Trust, with guides leading visitors on the 2 km cliff walk from the carpark."
Wicklow Head Lighthouse Heritage Open Day
"Russborough House opens its exhibition centre free of charge during Heritage Week, showcasing 100 years of the Palladian mansion's families, history and culture alongside its half-price guided house tours."
Russborough House Heritage Open Day