"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
"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 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 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