"A community-built open-air timeline displayed along Main Street in the medieval coastal village of Timoleague, tracing centuries of local history in one walkable outdoor exhibition."

Timoleague Timeline

"Nenagh's historic Townhall on Banba Square anchors a programme of heritage talks and community events celebrating North Tipperary's built and cultural heritage during Heritage Week 2026."

Heritage Week Events Programme, Nenagh

"The seaside village of Liscannor hosts Heritage Week events at its community hall, celebrating the Cliffs of Moher coastline's natural and cultural history during the national celebration."

Heritage Week at Liscannor Community Hall

"The repurposed old garda barracks in Moyvane, now home to the village's community cafe and library, opens its doors for Heritage Week to explore the building's layered local history."

Heritage Week at Moyvane Old Garda Barracks

"A recurring Heritage Week Viking heritage celebration on the Waterford Greenway at Woodstown, featuring battle re-enactments, Viking games, and a craft village at one of Ireland's most significant Viking archaeological sites."

Aonach na nDéise, Woodstown

"The historic walled port town of Kinsale hosts a programme of Heritage Week events celebrating its remarkable 17th-century fortifications, maritime past, and living townscape traditions."

National Heritage Week 2026, Kinsale

"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

"Kilruddery House opens its historic library and gardens during Heritage Week, with a traditional summer games day featuring sack races, egg-and-spoon races and welly throwing on the formal grounds."

Kilruddery House Heritage Open Day

"A rare public open day at ESB's underground Turlough Hill pumped-storage hydropower station, set beneath the Wicklow Mountains and one of Ireland's most remarkable feats of 20th-century engineering heritage."

ESB Turlough Hill Hydropower Station Open Day

"A Heritage Week event at the Royal Canal Harbour in Maynooth exploring the history of this 18th-century waterway that once linked Dublin to the River Shannon."

Royal Canal Heritage Event, Maynooth

"A family Heritage Week walk along the Valley Riverside Park and Fairy Trail in Kilcullen, combining the natural and folkloric heritage of the River Liffey valley."

Kilcullen Riverside Park and Fairy Trail Heritage Walk

"Heritage Week open access to St Brigid's Cathedral and its magnificent 10th-century Round Tower in Kildare Town, one of the finest examples of early-Christian architecture in Leinster."

St Brigid's Cathedral and Round Tower Heritage Open Day

"A community Heritage Week programme at Leixlip Parish Centre celebrating the Viking-founded town's rich built and cultural heritage on the banks of the Liffey."

Leixlip Parish Heritage Event

"A guided Heritage Week walk starting at Fore Abbey car park, exploring the Seven Wonders of Fore and the remarkably intact remains of this 13th-century Benedictine priory in the Westmeath countryside."

Fore Abbey Heritage Walk

"A Heritage Week guided walk along the Old Rail Trail Greenway, tracing the route of the disused Midland Great Western Railway line through the Westmeath lakeland landscape."

Old Rail Trail Greenway Heritage Walk

"The Wexford Bell Ringers open Rowe Street Church's historic bell tower during Heritage Week for demonstrations of the traditional campanology craft in one of Wexford's finest Victorian churches."

Wexford Bell Ringers Heritage Open Day

"Dunmore Cave, a Viking-age site where a hoard of silver coins and bones were discovered, opens with special Heritage Week guided tours exploring its dramatic limestone chambers and dark history."

Dunmore Cave Heritage Open Day

"A rare chance to join guided Heritage Week tours of the internationally significant Knock Shrine and Basilica, exploring the site's pilgrimage history and sacred architecture during the 50th anniversary of the Basilica."

Basilica 50: Guided Shrine and Basilica Tours

"A family storytelling event at Cavan County Museum in Ballyjamesduff follows a narrator through replica trenches to recount the lives of Cavan men who fought in the First World War."

Tales from the Trenches

"Newtown Castle, a rare 16th-century round tower castle in the Burren, opens free of charge throughout Heritage Week, offering visitors a glimpse of one of Ireland's most unusual surviving tower houses."

Newtown Castle Heritage Week Open Day

"Killua Castle, a romantic Gothic Revival ruin set within a vast demesne in County Westmeath, opens its gates each Heritage Week for morning visits to one of Ireland's most atmospheric lost estates."

Killua Castle Heritage Week Open Days

"Lough Park House, a Georgian country house near Castlepollard, opens its grounds and interiors each Heritage Week as part of the Revenue Section 482 public access scheme."

Lough Park House Heritage Week Open Days

"Borris House, a Tudor Revival mansion that has been home to the MacMurrough Kavanagh family for centuries, opens for afternoon tours during Heritage Week in its handsome south Carlow village setting."

Borris House Heritage Week Open Days

"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

"A celebration of traditional Irish crafts staged within the 13th-century Norman ruins of Ferns Castle, built by William Marshal on the ancient seat of the Kings of Leinster."

Ferns Castle Craft Fair

"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

"Ballymaloe House, the celebrated East Cork farmhouse that became a world-famous culinary landmark, opens its historic interiors each morning during Heritage Week under the Section 482 scheme."

Ballymaloe House Heritage Week Open Mornings

"Rockfield Ecological Estate near Rathowen opens free of charge throughout Heritage Week, inviting visitors to explore its historic demesne alongside its working ecological restoration programme."

Rockfield Ecological Estate Heritage Week Open Days

"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

"Bantry House, a stately 18th-century mansion overlooking Bantry Bay stuffed with European antiques and art, opens through Heritage Week as one of Ireland's most atmospheric privately owned historic houses."

Bantry House Heritage Week Open Days

"Ballyvolane House, a handsome 18th-century Italianate mansion amid the Blackwater Valley countryside near Castlelyons, is open throughout Heritage Week for tours of its fine interiors and gardens."

Ballyvolane House Heritage Week Open Days

"Ireland's first Cistercian monastery, where the Nine Years War ended and William of Orange camped before the Boyne, opens free for guided tours across Heritage Week."

Heritage Week Open Days at Old Mellifont Cistercian Abbey

"A tidal island monastic settlement founded by St Senan, complete with round tower and five medieval churches, opens for free boat-access visits across Heritage Week."

Heritage Week Open Days at Scattery Island Monastic Site

"Ferns' remarkable Augustinian abbey with its unique half-square, half-round tower opens free on the first day of Heritage Week, spotlighting a building that survived from Diarmait Mac Murchada's era."

Heritage Week Open Day at Ferns Castle and Abbey

"A medieval Benedictine priory set in a tranquil valley near Mullingar, legendary for its Seven Wonders of Fore, hosts Heritage Week tours from its car park in the village."

Heritage Week Guided Tour of Fore Abbey

"A rare chance to go hands-on at one of the finest Franciscan friaries in Ireland, with family dig-and-discover activities running throughout Heritage Week in Ennis town."

Dig and Discover at Ennis Friary

"Guided tours of the O'Donnell clan's 15th-century Franciscan abbey trace the story of Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Four Masters who compiled the Annals of the Four Masters here."

Abbey of Donegal Historical Tour

"Free access to the ancient Shannon-side monastery founded by St Ciarán in the 6th century, with guided tours of its cathedral, two round towers, three high crosses, and eight churches."

Heritage Week Open Day at Clonmacnoise Monastic Site

"St Kevin's 6th-century valley monastery, with its iconic round tower and lakeside ruins deep in the Wicklow Mountains, hosts a Big Dig and special Heritage Week programming for all ages."

Heritage Week at Glendalough Monastic Site

"A heritage interpreter leads visitors around the ancient monastic site of Rahan and its medieval Church of Ireland church, a rarely visited early Christian foundation in rural Offaly."

St Carthage's Church and Rahan Monastic Site Heritage Week Opening

"One of the finest Cistercian ruins in Ireland, celebrated for its carved cloister arcade and expressive medieval effigies, offers free admission and guided tours throughout Heritage Week."

Heritage Week at Jerpoint Abbey

"Known locally as the Seven Castles, this vast 13th-century Augustinian walled priory beside the King's River is one of the largest medieval monuments in Ireland and opens free for Heritage Week."

Heritage Week at Kells Priory

"The ancient cathedral associated with St Brendan the Navigator, set in the quiet Kerry village of Ardfert, opens its Romanesque nave and three ruined churches free across Heritage Week."

Heritage Week at Ardfert Cathedral

"A Cistercian abbey founded by William Marshal after a vow made during a storm at sea, nestled in woodland on the Hook Peninsula, opens for free guided tours throughout Heritage Week."

Heritage Week at Tintern Abbey

"Wexford's imposing 19th-century Gothic Catholic church, a rare twin-towered landmark on the historic quayside, opens its doors for public Heritage Week visits."

Rowe Street Church Heritage Week Opening

"Eighth-generation stonecutters the O'Flaherty family lead guided tours of Ballyknockan, the Wicklow granite village whose quarried stone built some of Ireland's most iconic buildings."

Ballyknockan Stonecutters Village Guided Heritage Tour

"The medieval walled town of Athenry hosts Heritage Week archery demonstrations in the grounds of its 13th-century castle, placing a living traditional skill against one of Connacht's finest fortified monuments."

Archery Demonstrations at Athenry Castle

"Ballinderreen Community Centre hosts Heritage Week programming for this small south Galway coastal village, bringing together local history and community memory during the national celebration."

Ballinderreen Heritage Week Event

"Expert-guided tours of Carlingford's medieval streetscape and castle run across two weekends during Heritage Week, letting visitors follow in President Biden's footsteps through one of Ireland's best-preserved Anglo-Norman towns."

Carlingford Heritage Week Castle Tours

"A 1580 tower house midway through its own rescue throws open its doors for Heritage Week: the principal rooms, the formal gardens, the restoration story told by the family doing it, and lawns made for picnics."

Killoskehane Castle Open Day

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens Salterbridge Gatelodge near Cappoquin for self-guided tours, offering a rare glimpse inside one of Waterford's most characterful estate gate lodges."

Heritage Open Doors: Salterbridge Gatelodge

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens the enchanting Miniature Castle at Annes Grove Estate near Castletownroche for free self-guided tours during Heritage Open Doors weekend."

Heritage Open Doors: Annes Grove Miniature Castle

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens the Galley Head Lightkeeper's Houses on the dramatic West Cork headland for free self-guided tours, connecting visitors to Ireland's lighthouse-keeping heritage."

Heritage Open Doors: Galley Head Lightkeeper's Houses

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens Killee Cottage near Mitchelstown for free self-guided tours, giving the public access to this restored rural Cork cottage during Heritage Open Doors 2026."

Heritage Open Doors: Killee Cottage

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens the Head Gardener's House at Fota House on Fota Island for free self-guided tours, offering an intimate view of the estate's working heritage."

Heritage Open Doors: Head Gardener's House at Fota House

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens Inchiquin House in the Burren village of Corofin for free self-guided tours, shining a light on this historic Clare estate property."

Heritage Open Doors: Inchiquin House

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens the Lightkeeper's House at Loop Head Peninsula for free self-guided tours, celebrating the maritime and lighthouse heritage of this remote Clare headland."

Heritage Open Doors: Loop Head Lightkeeper's House

"The Irish Landmark Trust opens Goggin Cottage in the rural village of Kildimo for free self-guided tours, offering a window into traditional Limerick rural domestic life."

Heritage Open Doors: Goggin Cottage

"A hands-on celebration of Ireland's traditional crafts at the National Museum of Ireland Country Life in Turlough Park, showcasing the thatching, blacksmithing and rural skills under threat in 2026's Heritage at Risk theme."

Traditional Craft Celebration

"The Old Station House on Tyrconnell Street opens its doors during Heritage Week, bringing the story of Donegal's narrow-gauge railway back to life through displays and demonstrations."

Donegal Railway Heritage Museum Heritage Week Open Days

"The twin gate lodges of Castletown House, Ireland's largest Palladian mansion, open for rare self-guided public tours as part of Heritage Open Doors."

Heritage Open Doors: Castletown Gate Houses

"This eccentric Gothic gate lodge on the Castletown estate, named after the English architectural writer Batty Langley, opens its doors to the public for one day only."

Heritage Open Doors: Batty Langley Lodge

"The octagonal Wicklow Head Lighthouse, perched on a dramatic headland and restored by the Irish Landmark Trust, opens for self-guided tours during Heritage Open Doors."

Heritage Open Doors: Wicklow Head Lighthouse

"Historian Tim McCoy delivers a free public talk at Cobh Library uncovering the true life of Annie Moore, the first emigrant processed at Ellis Island, and untangling a long-standing case of mistaken identity."

Annie Moore: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Talk at Cobh Library

"The General Paints Group opens its historic Celbridge headquarters during Heritage Week, offering a unique glimpse into the colour, craft and industrial history behind one of Ireland's best-known heritage paint brands."

General Paints Heritage Open Day, Celbridge

"A hands-on Heritage Week workshop at Celbridge Library teaching the revolutionary 19th-century Irish Crochet Lace technique, once made in Kildare and exported worldwide."

Irish Crochet Lace Workshop, Celbridge Library

"A community Heritage Week gathering at Lacken Sensory Garden on the shores of Lacken Strand, celebrating the coastal and natural heritage of this quiet north Mayo village."

Lacken Heritage Day

"The Rossnowlagh Ramblers lead a guided walk into the hills behind the beach, exploring the area's archaeological landscape with expert commentary on its ancient heritage."

Heritage Walk Through the Hills Behind Rossnowlagh

"A guided dusk walk along the wooded paths of Glendalough Upper Lake using bat detectors to find bats in flight, led by local wildlife experts."

Bat Walk at Glendalough Upper Lake

"A guided walk around Westport's Octagon and town centre revealing the ancient fossils embedded in the limestone buildings and streetscapes of this elegant Georgian planned town."

Urban Fossil Walk

"The Donegal Railway Heritage Museum brings the story of Ballyshannon's lost railway lines to Dorrian's Imperial Hotel through an evening talk and display celebrating the town's rail heritage."

Ballyshannon's Railways Remembered

"Inishowen Rivers Trust hosts an introduction to biodiversity using simple language and real-life specimens at the historic Lagg Presbyterian Church on the Inishowen Peninsula."

Green Guardians: Exploring the Web of Life, Lagg, Malin

"A guided evening walk through Ballyconnell Nature Garden in Kilflynn, exploring how different habitat zones support a diversity of native plants and wildlife."

An Evening in the Nature Garden, Kilflynn

"Local professional photographer Jeff Harvey leads an interactive Heritage Week workshop on preserving and archiving personal photographs, covering both digital and printed formats at Clara Library."

Photography Workshop with Jeff Harvey, Clara Library

"Abarta Heritage leads a guided walk to the sacred St Brigid's Holy Well at Killare, exploring the landscape of early-Christian pilgrimage and holy well devotion in rural Westmeath."

St Brigid's Holy Well Heritage Walk, Killare

"A full-day biodiversity survey blitz in the atmospheric Moore Hall Forest Recreation Area beside Lough Carra, one of Ireland's most ecologically rare marl lakes, inviting all ages to help record its living heritage."

Lough Carra Bioblitz at Moore Hall

"A full-day heritage programme at the medieval Friary Church on Abbey Street exploring the founding history of Ballyhaunis Friary and its role in east Mayo's ecclesiastical and community heritage."

Ballyhaunis: Foundation of a Friary

"A community celebration of local memory at Ballyglass Community Centre, gathering photographs and personal stories that trace the social history of a small rural Mayo townland."

From Classroom to Community Centre: Stories and Photos

"Local archaeologist Dr Sharon Greene leads a guided walk through Castledermot's medieval streetscape, from the early monastic site of Díseart Diarmada to the surviving fabric of a once-walled Anglo-Norman borough."

Guided Heritage Walk of Castledermot

"A free Heritage Week display of beautifully restored vintage tractors, vehicles and farm machinery at John Hanlon's yard, with donations supporting the Maria Goretti Foundation."

John Hanlon's Vintage Museum Exhibition

"A guided biodiversity walk through Kiltimagh Emigrant Park exploring the living walls and green heritage of this south Mayo village, connecting natural heritage with the stories of emigration."

The Living Wall: A Biodiversity Walk in Kiltimagh Park

"A community Heritage Week gathering at Ballinderreen Community Centre in this small south Galway village on the shores of Galway Bay, part of a county-wide programme of over 100 events celebrating Galway's rural heritage."

Ballinderreen Heritage Week Open Day

"Fahan Community Development Partnership leads a Water Heritage Day walk from the car park of the ancient Saint Mura's Church of Ireland, exploring the early-Christian and maritime heritage of this Lough Swilly shoreline village."

Fahan Community Heritage Walk

"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

"Pilgrims process the Pilgrim Cross through the great 6th-century monastic ruins of Clonmacnoise on St Ciarán's feast day, a diocesan pilgrimage that transforms a UNESCO-listed monument back into a living sacred community."

Clonmacnoise Pattern Day, Féile Naomh Ciarán

"The Village Green transforms into a living history Viking camp each September, with re-enactors, the Ardglass Viking Longboat, street entertainment and interactive family activities set against Carlingford's medieval walls."

Carlingford Viking Experience and Medieval 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

"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

"Bunratty's living-history folk park recreates 18th- and 19th-century Irish Halloween traditions with haunted castle tours, ghostly banquets, and costumed storytelling set inside an authentic medieval fortress village."

Halloween at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park

"An autumn festival in the North Cork estate village of Doneraile, taking in the heritage of Doneraile Court and Park with community events, music and local traditions."

Doneraile Festival

"The medieval walled port town of Youghal is transported back to ancient Celtic tradition as An Bean Uisce walks the streets and candlelit storytelling fills the centuries-old stone laneways the night before Halloween."

Spirit of Samhain, Youghal

"An after-dark illuminated trail through the heritage arboretum and gardens surrounding Fota House, featuring light installations, glowing wildlife sculptures and festive projections among listed specimen trees."

Wonderlights at Fota House Arboretum

"Each winter solstice, a lottery-selected handful of people witness the 5,000-year-old passage tomb at Newgrange fill with the rising sun's light, in one of the world's most moving midwinter rituals."

Grianstad an Gheimhridh / Winter Solstice at Newgrange

"Held in the walled demesne of the 19th-century Johnstown Castle, this summer garden fair combines horticultural and artisan stalls with the castle's Victorian pleasure grounds and ornamental lake."

Johnstown Castle Garden Fair

"A living calendar custom drawing pilgrims each year on the feast of St Fiacra to his holy well on the edge of the Westmeath village, continuing an unbroken pattern of devotion and rural community gathering."

St Fiacra's Well Pilgrimage

"A summer festival set within the sweeping lakeside gardens of Belvedere House, combining horticultural displays, artisan markets, and family entertainment at one of Westmeath's finest Georgian estates on Lough Ennell."

Belvedere Garden Festival

"Now in its 23rd year, this nine-day county-wide festival opens at Arboretum Leighlinbridge and takes in historic estates, woodland gardens and walled gardens across the Carlow Garden Trail, with acclaimed designers and gardeners from Ireland and the UK delivering talks, tours and workshops."

Carlow Garden Festival

"Held at Stradbally Hall by the Irish Steam Preservation Society, this August Bank Holiday gathering showcases working steam engines, traction engines, oil engines, vintage tractors, and traditional crafts over three days, with a steam and vintage parade through the village square."

National Steam Rally

"A free annual medieval fair set inside the walled grounds of the 13th-century St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Youghal, bringing costumed displays, crafts and living history to one of Ireland's best-preserved walled towns."

Youghal Medieval Festival

"A weekend of lively academic talks, walking tours and field trips held on the private island estate of Inish Beg, exploring West Cork's rich and often turbulent history with leading historians and writers."

West Cork History Festival

"This beautifully preserved 13th-century collegiate church in the village of Gowran opens for escorted morning and afternoon sessions ahead of Heritage Week."

Open Day at St Mary's Church Gowran