Carlingford's Indoor Craft and Food Fair - The 1st Sunday of every month
Come along and browse through the Delicious Food & Hand Made Craft stalls
St Michael's Hall Carlingford from 12.00 pm until 18.00 pm

For details please contact the Cooley Peninsula Tourist Office Tel: 042 9373033

Ravensdale's Irish Country Market - Each and every Saturday
10.30am to 12.30pm - Tea & Coffee available, the best of Home Produce direct from the makers

For details please contact the Ravensdale Country Market Tel: 087 1278581 Facebook Ravensdale Country Market

Previous Events January to April 2013 
Upcoming Events August to December 2013

MAY

Vantastival Music Festival 2013
Friday 3rd May to Sunday 5th May
Bellurgan Park, Bellurgan, The Cooley Peninsula

Vantastival is a family-friendly festival which takes place over the May Bank Holiday Weekend.

Three stages of live music and entertainment host up to 70 acts over the course of the weekend, while a range of activities focusing on the campervan lifestyle bring an extra dimension to the only festival of its kind in Ireland.

Other attractions include gourmet food stalls, festival traders, scheduled kids’ activities, documentary cinema, art, craft and theatre, ensuring that Vantastival has something for everyone, with or without a campervan! 

For more information visit www.vantastival.com 

Traditional & Folk Music Weekend
Friday 3rd May to Sunday 5th May
The Lumpers Bar, Ballymakellett, Ravensdale.

A Traditional and folk weekend with musicians from all over including students from colleges in Sweden and Northern Ireland.
There will be the annual Charity Walk for Cystic Fibrosis on the Sunday with barbeque afterwards.
More information available Here  

A Taste of Carlingford
Saturday 11th May & Sunday 12th May
In and around Medieval Carlingford
A two day celebration of fine food and local produce.

Set in the idyllic surroundings of the Mediaeval village of Carlingford, all the restaurants, bars and café's will provide visitors to the village a taste of the wonderful range of cuisine on offer, in a veritable market place of little tents and stalls. Artisan food suppliers will provide further treats and colour.

The Festival Tent will be open offering Wine, delicious strawberries and the mouth watering Carlingford Oysters. This will be an unparalleled weekend of Fun, Food and Entertainment for all visitors.

Don't miss this opportunity to indulge yourself. Street entertainment on both days including Music and Facepainting. Heritage Walks around the Medieval Village & up in the hills to Queen Maebhs Gap , Children's Cookery School demonstration, Crab Fishing & Kayaking at King John's Pier (Weather & Tides permitting).

More information and the full programme of events can be found on our Festival page Here
Contact the Cooley Peninsula Tourist Office Tel: 042 9373033 
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Download Form - Artisan Food & Crafts Stall Vendors Application Form

Cooley Coast Run
Friday 17th May
Cooley Peninsula Coastline 

The third annual OpenHydro Cooley Coast Run has been confirmed for Friday 17th May. 

This is a 12.5k Road Race & a 10k run/walk along Cooley’s famous coast line, taking in the wonderful scenery of Carlingford Lough and the Mourne & Cooley mountains.

Both the 12.5k and the 10k will start and finish at the grounds of Cooley Kickhams GFC. Both races will start at 7pm sharp. The event was a great success last year with over 400 people taking part.

More information and registration details can be found here: Cooley Coast Run  

The Carlingford National Poultry Races
Sunday 19th May at 2.30pm
Carlingford Folk Park, beside the Sailing Club, Ghan Road, Carlingford

The Carlingford National Poultry Races have been rescheduled for Sunday 19th May at 2.30 at the Green opposite the Sailing Club beside the Leprechaun and Fairy Cavern on Ghan Road 

The area that hosts the National Leprechaun Hunt is 'laying' on a day at the races Easter Egg style. The races are open to anything that lays an egg - The Easter National Poultry Races are on! The sane and insane are invited to watch chickens, roosters, ducks and geese race to the finish line on the Village Green in the picturesque town of Carlingford in County Louth on Easter Monday April 1st 2013 at 2.00pm  

For more information visit www.carlingfordandmourne.com 

The Carlingford Pipe Band Gathering Festival
Saturday 25th May & Sunday 26th May
In and around Medieval Carlingford 

Carlingford has a very active pipe band that have played internationally and nationally, as a result of the band's cooperation to participate in outside and overseas events, the local band will host it's own piping festival.

The full programme will be available closer to the festival.

Festival Food & Stall Vendors sought for the Carlingford Pipeband Gathering Festival - All enquiries can be sent to the Festivals organising committee at the following email address  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   or  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

More information on the Gathering website here

JUNE

The Táin March
Thursday 6th June until Sunday 9th June
Beginning in Ardee and ending in Carlingford on the Cooley Peninsula

The Tain March is a 4 day event that recreates the march of Queen Maeve of Connaught from Tulsk in Co. Roscommon to Cooley in Co. Louth to capture the Brown Bull of Cooley.

On Thurs at 4.30pm an army replicating the army of Queen Maeve of Connaught, will gather and camp at the Ford in Ardee Co.Louth, to re-enact the battle between great friends ,Ferdia and and Cuchulainn . On Friday they will march to Tallanstown and on to Knockbridge Co. Louth, site of Cuchulainn's death ,arriving at 7pm to be met by the celtic warriors of Knockbridge blocking the path of the approaching army.

On Saturday June 9th they will march from Knockbridge and arrive to the outskirts of Dundalk at 2pm .Here the army will move to the great plaza in Dundalk Centre ,to the iron age emcampment for a re-enactment of the Táin, and later march to an encampment situated at Bellurgan Park On Sunday , with foot soldiers and mounted warriors they will cross the Cooley mountains from Glenmore into Carlingford .They will be fed with salted bread ,a Celtic custom that ensures no fights will break out among the warriors, while there. A great feast will follow in Carlingford before they set off in search of the Brown Bull. The Tain Bo Cuailgne (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) is Irelands most famous saga.

For more information visit www.tainmarch.com  

Oxfam Trailtrekker 2013
Saturday June 15th
The Cooley Peninsula, & the Mourne Mountains

The ultimate team event is back for a fifth year!

Walk in solidarity with people affected by poverty and injustice around the world in the new and improved event through the Mourne & Cooley Mountains on Saturday June 15th. Every step you take in the new 25km route or the more challenging 50km event will help make a positive difference, from emergency support in times of crisis to long-term development projects, along with campaigning that helps people speak out together.  

Gather your team of three to six people together and raise vital funds in this fun event that finishes with a big party in Carlingford. Every great achievement begins with a small step.  

See www.oxfamireland.org/trek
Call 01-635 0403 (Republic of Ireland) or 028-9089 5972 (Northern Ireland)
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2013 County Louth Agricultural Show
Sunday 16th June
Bellurgan Park, Bellurgan, Cooley Peninsula

The 2013 County Louth Agricultural Show run by Dundalk Show Society
This will be the 122nd year of the Show formerly known as Dundalk Show.The 2013 show preparation is currently underway, with the committee promising it to be even better than previous years.
For more information visit the County Louth Agricultural Show website Here 
Visit the County Louth Agricultural Show's Facebook page Here

Carlingford Lough Maritime Festival
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th June
The Heritage village of Greenore, Carlingford, Warrenpoint, Killowen and Kilkeel on the shores of Carlingford Lough 

"An Emigration Re-Enactment" Killowen Historical Society and Greenore Historical Association will host an Emigration Re-Enactment including music, singing, poetry and storytelling. 

The event, an emigration re-enactment organised by the Greenore Historical Association and the Killowen Historical Society to coincide with the Carlingford Lough Maritime Festival will see a tall ship, sail into the Lough as far as Newry Canal. With folk singers from Killowen and residents from both sides of the Lough recounting stories of those who left to seek a better life on ships which set sail from Greenore and Warrenpoint it will be a poignant reminder of how emigration has played such a large role in Irish society down the years. 

More information and the full programme will be available closer to the festival. 
Contact the Cooley Peninsula Tourist Office Tel: 042 9373033  Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   

THE 2013 NATIONAL CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Thursday 20th June until Sunday 23rd June
Carlingford on the Cooley Peninsula

Dundalk's Cuchulainn Cycling Club are the 2013 hosts of the Championships. Comprising both a road race and time trial,  the National Championships are Ireland's most prestigious cycling event.

The Elite race will attract Ireland's top cyclists including Tour de France stars Nicholas Roche and Dan Martin, Olympic Stars Martin Irvine and David McCann. The riders will do battle for the right to wear the prestigious National Champions Green Jersey for the next year and more importantly in the Tour De France which will be starting the following weekend. Meanwhile the ladies race will say World Championship medalist Caroline Ryan in the thick of the action, battling with the defending champion Siobhan Hogan of Cork.

More information and the full programme can be found here: Cuchulainn Cycling Club Website 

JULY

Carlingford Lough Endurance Challenge (CLEC)
Saturday 6th July
Carlingford & Surrounds

Competitors from all over Ireland and beyond will vie for places in the 12th  'CLEC' multi-endurance event.

The Carlingford Lough Endurance Challenge or ‘CLEC’ is Ireland’s longest running multi-sport event, which traverses the local Cooley Mountains and navigates Carlingford Lough in Co. Louth and involves Trail Running, Mountain Biking and Sea-Kayaking.

For further information visit the CLEC website Here

James Gallier Day
Wednesday 24th July
Dundalk, Ravensdale, Proleek & Ballymascanlon

Born in Ravensdale in 1798 James Gallagher {alias Gallier} became 'the father of architecture' in New Orleans where the old City Hall is named in his honour. We invite the Irish diaspora in New Orleans to visit Ravensdale on 24th July where we will tour his birthplace, buildlings linked to or built by him and the family buriel plot all of which survive to this day.

Contact Paul Keane Tel: 087 2247031 Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   

JULY - AUGUST

Zoe Conway & John McIntyre's Summer Concert Series
Sunday 21st of July to Sunday 18th August 16.00pm
Carlingford Heritage Centre

Zoë Conway and John Mc Intyre featuring special guests.

Zoë and John are a folk duo from Ireland.  They tour all over the world playing an exciting blend of eclectic fiddle and guitar music, bringing to the stage sympathetic arrangements of traditional Irish music, compositions and songs, old and new. Full details of performances and special guests will be available closer to the concert dates in 2013.


For more information about the concerts visit the Carlingford Heritage Centre's website Here

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